Nvidia GTX 1660 vs Nvidia L40

The L40 is newer, with 8x the memory and 4.5x the bandwidth. The GTX 1660 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

8x more on L40

GTX 1660: 6 GB

L40: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.5x higher on L40

GTX 1660: 192 GB/s

L40: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

91% cheaper on GTX 1660

GTX 1660: $0.04 /GPU/hr

L40: $0.46 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	GTX 1660	L40
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04	$1.05 /GPU/hr from $0.46
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.19 (24 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02	$0.78 /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, reserved and spot on the GTX 1660 and reserved on the L40: 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

GTX 1660 vs L40 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1660	L40	Difference
Memory
Capacity	6 GB GDDR5	48 GB GDDR6	8x more on L40
Bandwidth	192 GB/s	864 GB/s	4.5x higher on L40
Bus width	192-bit	384-bit	2x wider on L40
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	362 TFLOPS	L40 only
FP16 / BF16	10.1 TFLOPS	181.1 TFLOPS	18x higher on L40
INT8	Not supported	362 TOPS	L40 only
FP32	5.0 TFLOPS	90.5 TFLOPS	18x higher on L40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	120 W	300 W	2.5x higher on L40
Released	Q1 2019	Q4 2022	4 years newer on L40
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: GTX 1660 datasheet and L40 datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	GTX 1660	L40
Vast.ai USA	$0.0489 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.0400 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.19 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Thunder Compute USA	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	--	$0.86 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	--	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hyperstack UK	--	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand
Oblivus USA	--	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe