Nvidia L40 vs Nvidia P4

The L40 is newer, with 6x the memory and 4.5x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on L40

L40: 48 GB

P4: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.5x higher on L40

L40: 864 GB/s

P4: 192 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

30% cheaper on L40

L40: $0.46 /GPU/hr

P4: $0.65 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40	P4
On-demand	$1.05 /GPU/hr from $0.46	-- /GPU/hr from $0.65
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70	-- /GPU/hr from $0.34 (36 mo)
Spot	$0.78 /GPU/hr from $0.40	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11

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 and on-demand, reserved and spot on the P4: 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 P4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40	P4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5	6x more on L40
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	192 GB/s	4.5x higher on L40
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on L40
Compute · dense
FP8	362 TFLOPS	Not supported	L40 only
FP16 / BF16	181.1 TFLOPS
INT8	362 TOPS	22 TOPS	16x higher on L40
FP32	90.5 TFLOPS	5.5 TFLOPS	16x higher on L40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	75 W	4x higher on L40
Released	Q4 2022	Q3 2016	6 years newer on L40
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT8

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

Source: L40 datasheet and P4 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	L40	P4
Vast.ai USA	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
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	--
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	--
Google Cloud USA	--	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand