Nvidia A800 vs Nvidia L40S

The A800 has 80% more bandwidth, while the L40S has 20% more memory. The L40S is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

20% more on L40S

A800: 40 GB

L40S: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

80% higher on A800

A800: 1,555 GB/s

L40S: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

38% cheaper on L40S

A800: $0.88 /GPU/hr

L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A800	L40S
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.88	$1.50 /GPU/hr from $0.55
Reserved	No reserved listings	$1.10 /GPU/hr from $0.60 (12 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.40	$0.98 /GPU/hr from $0.40

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 on-demand and spot on the A800: 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

A800 vs L40S price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A800	L40S	Difference
Memory
Capacity	40 GB HBM2	48 GB GDDR6	20% more on L40S
Bandwidth	1,555 GB/s	864 GB/s	80% higher on A800
Bus width	5,120-bit	384-bit	13x wider on A800
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	733 TFLOPS	L40S only
FP16 / BF16	312 TFLOPS	362.1 TFLOPS	16% higher on L40S
INT8	623.5 TOPS	733 TOPS	18% higher on L40S
FP32	19.5 TFLOPS	91.6 TFLOPS	4.7x higher on L40S
FP64	9.7 TFLOPS	Not supported	A800 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 400 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A800 only
Board power	240 W	350 W	46% higher on L40S
Released	Q4 2022	Q3 2023	9 months newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

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

Source: A800 datasheet and L40S datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	A800	L40S
Vast.ai USA	$0.88 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$0.67 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPUhub Singapore	$1.18 /GPU/hr On-demand NVL	--
Novita USA	--	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Packet·ai USA	--	$0.92 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	--	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	--	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	--	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe