A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Turing and one Ada Lovelace: 4 GB GDDR5 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 6.8x the memory bandwidth on the L40S.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 4 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 128 GB/s
- From
- $0.02 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- 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 1650 | L40S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.02 | $0.55 | 28x more expensive on L40S |
| Spot | $0.01 | $0.74 | 49x more expensive on L40S |
| Reserved | $0.14 | $0.60 | 4.4x more expensive on L40S |
| Median | $0.02 | $1.60 | 80x more expensive on L40S |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
GTX 1650 vs L40S price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | GTX 1650 | L40S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 4 GB GDDR5 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 12x more on L40S |
| Bandwidth | 128 GB/s | 864 GB/s | 6.8x higher on L40S |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 384-bit | 3x wider on L40S |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 733 TFLOPS | L40S only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 6.0 TFLOPS | 362.1 TFLOPS | 61x higher on L40S |
| INT8 | Not supported | 733 TOPS | L40S only |
| FP32 | 3.0 TFLOPS | 91.6 TFLOPS | 31x higher on L40S |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 75 W | 350 W | 4.7x higher on L40S |
| Released | Q2 2019 | Q3 2023 | 4 years newer on L40S |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: GTX 1650 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 1650 /GPU/hr | L40S /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.0200 | -- |
Database Mart
|
Reserved (24mo) $0.14 | -- |
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 |
2 providers list the GTX 1650 and 34 the L40S. Every listing is on the GTX 1650 page and the L40S page.
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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1650 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia L40S on Sept. 7, 2026.