A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR5 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 3.4x the memory bandwidth on the L40S.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 256 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 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 | GTX 1070 | L40S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $0.55 | 14x more expensive on L40S |
| Spot | $0.02 | $0.74 | 37x more expensive on L40S |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.60 | |
| Median | $0.04 | $1.60 | 40x more expensive on L40S |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1070 vs L40S price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1070 | L40S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 6x more on L40S |
| Bandwidth | 256 GB/s | 864 GB/s | 3.4x higher on L40S |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 384-bit | 1.5x wider on L40S |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 733 TFLOPS | L40S only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 362.1 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | Not supported | 733 TOPS | L40S only |
| FP32 | 6.5 TFLOPS | 91.6 TFLOPS | 14x higher on L40S |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 150 W | 350 W | 2.3x higher on L40S |
| Released | Q2 2016 | Q3 2023 | 7 years newer on L40S |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1070 datasheet and L40S datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | GTX 1070 /GPU/hr | L40S /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0400 | -- |
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 GTX 1070 and 34 the L40S. Every listing is on the GTX 1070 page and the L40S page.
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1070 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia L40S on Sept. 7, 2026.