A workstation GPU against a data center card, one Maxwell and one Ada Lovelace: 2 GB DDR3 against 48 GB GDDR6 and 30x the memory bandwidth on the L40S.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 2 GB
- DDR3
- Memory bandwidth
- 29 GB/s
- From
- --
- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.38 /GPU/hr
- 36 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | K620 | L40S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | -- | $0.38 | |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.47 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.60 | |
| Median | -- | $1.28 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
K620 vs L40S price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | K620 | L40S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 2 GB DDR3 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 24x more on L40S |
| Bandwidth | 29 GB/s | 864 GB/s | 30x higher on L40S |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 384-bit | 3x wider on L40S |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 733 TFLOPS | L40S only |
| FP16 / BF16 | Not supported | 362.1 TFLOPS | L40S only |
| INT8 | Not supported | 733 TOPS | L40S only |
| FP32 | 0.9 TFLOPS | 91.6 TFLOPS | 107x higher on L40S |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 45 W | 350 W | 7.8x higher on L40S |
| Released | Q3 2014 | Q3 2023 | 9 years newer on L40S |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP32 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: K620 datasheet and L40S datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | K620 /GPU/hr | L40S /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $0.38 |
Novita
|
-- | On-Demand $0.55 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.60 |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.79 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.80 |
Packet·ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.92 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $0.97 |
0 providers list the K620 and 36 the L40S. Every listing is on the K620 page and the L40S page.
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Our data for Nvidia K620 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia L40S on Sept. 7, 2026.