A workstation GPU against a data center card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 20 GB GDDR6 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 35% more memory bandwidth on the L40S.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 20 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 640 GB/s
- From
- --
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.55 /GPU/hr
- 34 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A4500 | L40S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | -- | $0.55 | |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.74 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.60 | |
| Median | -- | $1.60 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A4500 vs L40S price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A4500 | L40S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 20 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 2.4x more on L40S |
| Bandwidth | 640 GB/s | 864 GB/s | 1.4x higher on L40S |
| Bus width | 320-bit | 384-bit | 1.2x wider on L40S |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 733 TFLOPS | L40S only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 94.6 TFLOPS | 362.1 TFLOPS | 3.8x higher on L40S |
| INT8 | 733 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 23.7 TFLOPS | 91.6 TFLOPS | 3.9x higher on L40S |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 200 W | 350 W | 1.8x higher on L40S |
| Released | Q4 2021 | Q3 2023 | 2 years newer on L40S |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A4500 datasheet and L40S datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | A4500 /GPU/hr | L40S /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Runpod
|
Reservation on request | -- |
Novita
|
-- | On-Demand $0.55 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.80 |
Packet·ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.92 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $0.97 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.97 |
Runcrate
|
-- | On-Demand $0.97 |
UpCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.19 |
Koyeb
|
-- | On-Demand $1.20 |
1 provider list the A4500 and 34 the L40S. Every listing is on the A4500 page and the L40S page.
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Our data for Nvidia A4500 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia L40S on Sept. 7, 2026.