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L4 vs L40

The L4 provides 121 TFLOPS at 72W in single slot, while the L40 offers 181 TFLOPS at 300W in dual slot. Choose L4 for efficiency, L40 for graphics workloads.

Overview

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The Nvidia L4 is a data center GPU on the Ada Lovelace architecture, released Q1 2023, with 24 GB GDDR6 and 300 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia L40

The Nvidia L40 is a data center GPU on the Ada Lovelace architecture, released Q4 2022, with 48 GB GDDR6 and 864 GB/s memory bandwidth.

High Performance Datacenter

Memory per GPU

2x more on L40
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24 GB GDDR6
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48 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

2.9x higher on L40
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300 GB/s
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864 GB/s

GPU interconnect

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PCIe only
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PCIe only

Peak performance (FP8)

1.5x higher on L40
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242 TFLOPS
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362 TFLOPS

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

FP8 per watt

2.8x higher on L4
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3.36 TFLOPS/W
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1.21 TFLOPS/W

Board power

4.2x higher on L40
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72 W
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300 W

Precision support

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FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8
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FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Ada Lovelace
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Ada Lovelace

Released

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Q1 2023
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Q4 2022

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

1.9x higher on L40
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$0.29 / GPU / hr
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$0.57 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.1x higher on L40
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$0.86 / GPU / hr
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$0.98 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

5.7x higher on L40
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$0.08 / GPU / hr
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$0.47 / GPU / hr

Providers listing it

4 more on L4
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16
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12

Price, last 90 days

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+2%
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−7%

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market.

Heads up: Prices are estimates from published rates for common setups and vary by region and usage; verify with the provider before provisioning.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia L4 was last updated on Aug. 30, 2026, and for Nvidia L40 on Aug. 30, 2026.