Nvidia B300 vs Nvidia L40S

The B300 is newer, with 6x the memory and 9.3x the bandwidth. The L40S is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on B300

B300: 288 GB

L40S: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

9.3x higher on B300

B300: 8,000 GB/s

L40S: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

89% cheaper on L40S

B300: $4.99 /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	B300	L40S	Difference
On-demand	$9.15 /GPU/hr from $4.99	$1.57 /GPU/hr from $0.55	83% cheaper on L40S
Reserved	$5.78 /GPU/hr from $4.25	$1.10 /GPU/hr from $0.61 (12 mo)	81% cheaper on L40S
Spot	$5.72 /GPU/hr from $4.08	$0.99 /GPU/hr from $0.74	83% cheaper on L40S

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

B300 vs L40S price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	B300	L40S	Difference
Memory
Capacity	288 GB HBM3e	48 GB GDDR6	6x more on B300
Bandwidth	8,000 GB/s	864 GB/s	9.3x higher on B300
Bus width	8,192-bit	384-bit	21x wider on B300
Compute · dense
FP4	14,000 TFLOPS	Not supported	B300 only
FP8	4,500 TFLOPS	733 TFLOPS	6.1x higher on B300
FP16 / BF16	2,250 TFLOPS	362.1 TFLOPS	6.2x higher on B300
INT8	153.5 TOPS	733 TOPS	4.8x higher on L40S
FP32	75 TFLOPS	91.6 TFLOPS	22% higher on L40S
FP64	1.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	B300 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 1,800 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on B300 only
Board power	1,100 W	350 W	3.1x higher on B300
Released	Q1 2025	Q3 2023	2 years newer on B300
Precision
Supported formats	FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: B300 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	B300	L40S
Lium Distributed	$8.00 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$0.75 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Runcrate USA	$14.30 /GPU/hr On-demand NVL	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Daytona USA	$7.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
UpCloud Finland	$7.99 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Verda Finland	$10.48 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Spheron Singapore	$12.41 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$16.00 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPUaaS USA	$5.00 /GPU/hr Custom SXM	--
Novita USA	--	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.80 /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