Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia L40

The L40 is newer and has 13% more bandwidth, with the same 48 GB of memory. The RTX A6000 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

RTX A6000: 48 GB

L40: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

13% higher on L40

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

L40: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

23% cheaper on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: $0.35 /GPU/hr

L40: $0.46 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	RTX A6000	L40	Difference
On-demand	$0.56 /GPU/hr from $0.35	$1.00 /GPU/hr from $0.46	44% cheaper on RTX A6000
Reserved	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (6 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70
Spot	$0.33 /GPU/hr from $0.13	$0.78 /GPU/hr from $0.40	58% cheaper on RTX A6000

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for reserved on the L40: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

RTX A6000 vs L40 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	L40	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	864 GB/s	13% higher on L40
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	362 TFLOPS	L40 only
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS	181.1 TFLOPS	17% higher on L40
INT8	309.7 TOPS	362 TOPS	17% higher on L40
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	90.5 TFLOPS	2.3x higher on L40
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX A6000 only
Board power	300 W	300 W	Identical
Released	Q4 2020	Q4 2022	2 years newer on L40
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and L40 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	RTX A6000	L40
Thunder Compute USA	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vast.ai USA	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.86 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Spheron Singapore	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Oblivus USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Hyperstack UK	--	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	--	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe