Nvidia GT 730 vs Nvidia L40

A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Kepler and one Ada Lovelace: 2 GB DDR3 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 62x the memory bandwidth on the L40.

At a glance

Updated 6 minutes ago

Nvidia GT 730

Nvidia L40

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing	GT 730	L40
On-demand	--	$0.33
Spot	No spot listings	$0.40
Reserved	No reserved listings	$0.70
Median	--	$1.00

Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 16 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Spec	GT 730	L40	Difference
Memory
Capacity	2 GB DDR3	48 GB GDDR6	24x more on L40
Bandwidth	14 GB/s	864 GB/s	62x higher on L40
Bus width	64-bit	384-bit	6x wider on L40
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	362 TFLOPS	L40 only
FP16 / BF16	Not supported	181.1 TFLOPS	L40 only
INT8	Not supported	362 TOPS	L40 only
FP32	0.7 TFLOPS	90.5 TFLOPS	131x higher on L40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	23 W	300 W	13x higher on L40
Released	Q2 2014	Q4 2022	8 years newer on L40
Precision
Supported formats	FP32	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.