Nvidia H20 vs Nvidia L40

The H20 is newer, with 2x the memory and 4.6x the bandwidth.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on H20

H20: 96 GB

L40: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.6x higher on H20

H20: 4,000 GB/s

L40: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

H20: --

L40: $0.78 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	H20	L40
On-demand	No on-demand listings	$1.06 /GPU/hr from $0.78
Reserved	No reserved listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70
Spot	No spot listings	$0.79 /GPU/hr from $0.77

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 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

H20 vs L40 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	H20	L40	Difference
Memory
Capacity	96 GB HBM3	48 GB GDDR6	2x more on H20
Bandwidth	4,000 GB/s	864 GB/s	4.6x higher on H20
Bus width		384-bit
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	400 W	300 W	33% higher on H20
Released	Q1 2024	Q4 2022	15 months newer on H20
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Source: L40 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	H20	L40
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.78 /GPU/hr On-demand
Thunder Compute USA	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.82 /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
Spheron Singapore	--	$1.06 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe