Nvidia L40 vs Nvidia L40S

Both have 48 GB of memory and the same bandwidth, released 10 months apart.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

L40: 48 GB

L40S: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

Identical

L40: 864 GB/s

L40S: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

34% cheaper on L40S

L40: $0.58 /GPU/hr

L40S: $0.38 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40	L40S	Difference
On-demand	$1.00 /GPU/hr from $0.58	$1.50 /GPU/hr from $0.38	33% cheaper on L40
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70	$1.18 /GPU/hr from $0.60 (12 mo)
Spot	$0.78 /GPU/hr from $0.47	$0.90 /GPU/hr from $0.47	13% cheaper on L40

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

L40 vs L40S price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40	L40S	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	864 GB/s	Identical
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	362 TFLOPS	733 TFLOPS	2x higher on L40S
FP16 / BF16	181.1 TFLOPS	362.1 TFLOPS	2x higher on L40S
INT8	362 TOPS	733 TOPS	2x higher on L40S
FP32	90.5 TFLOPS	91.6 TFLOPS	Within 5%
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	350 W	17% higher on L40S
Released	Q4 2022	Q3 2023	10 months newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L40 datasheet and L40S datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	L40	L40S
Vast.ai USA	$0.58 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.71 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.78 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Thunder Compute USA	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.86 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Oblivus USA	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Lium Distributed	--	$0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Novita USA	--	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand
Packet·ai USA	--	$0.92 /GPU/hr On-demand