A workstation GPU against a data center card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 16 GB GDDR6 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 93% more memory bandwidth on the L40.
At a glance
Updated 4 minutes ago- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /GPU/hr
- 12 providers
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.33 /GPU/hr
- 14 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A4000 | L40 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.08 | $0.33 | 4x more expensive on L40 |
| Spot | $0.08 | $0.40 | 4.9x more expensive on L40 |
| Reserved | $0.06 | $0.70 | 11x more expensive on L40 |
| Median | $0.19 | $1.00 | 5.3x more expensive on L40 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A4000 vs L40 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A4000 | L40 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 3x more on L40 |
| Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 864 GB/s | 1.9x higher on L40 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 384-bit | 1.5x wider on L40 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 362 TFLOPS | L40 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 76.7 TFLOPS | 181.1 TFLOPS | 2.4x higher on L40 |
| INT8 | 362 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 19.2 TFLOPS | 90.5 TFLOPS | 4.7x higher on L40 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 140 W | 300 W | 2.1x higher on L40 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q4 2022 | 2 years newer on L40 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A4000 datasheet and L40 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A4000 /GPU/hr | L40 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.08 | On-Demand $0.46 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.09 | On-Demand $0.78 |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.88 | On-Demand $0.97 |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.88 | On-Demand $0.97 |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.17 | -- |
Hyperstack
|
On-Demand $0.15 | -- |
TensorDock
|
On-Demand $0.21 | -- |
Paperspace
|
On-Demand $0.76 | -- |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.33 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.70 |
Thunder Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.86 |
12 providers list the A4000 and 14 the L40. Every listing is on the A4000 page and the L40 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A4000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia L40 on Sept. 7, 2026.