A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ada Lovelace and one Pascal: 48 GB GDDR6 against 24 GB GDDR5X and 2x the memory bandwidth on the L40.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.78 /GPU/hr
- 12 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR5X
- Memory bandwidth
- 432 GB/s
- From
- $1.10 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L40 | P6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.78 | $1.10 | 29% cheaper on L40 |
| Spot | $0.78 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.70 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.05 | $1.10 | Within 5% |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L40 vs P6000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L40 | P6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR5X | 2x more on L40 |
| Bandwidth | 864 GB/s | 432 GB/s | 2x higher on L40 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 384-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 362 TFLOPS | Not supported | L40 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 181.1 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 362 TOPS | Not supported | L40 only |
| FP32 | 90.5 TFLOPS | 12.6 TFLOPS | 7.2x higher on L40 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 300 W | 250 W | 1.2x higher on L40 |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q4 2016 | 6 years newer on L40 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L40 datasheet and P6000 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | L40 /GPU/hr | P6000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.78 | -- |
Thunder Compute
|
On-Demand $0.79 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.86 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
Oblivus
|
On-Demand $1.05 | -- |
Spheron
|
On-Demand $1.06 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.10 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $1.50 | -- |
Paperspace
|
-- | On-Demand $1.10 |
12 providers list the L40 and 1 the P6000. Every listing is on the L40 page and the P6000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P6000 on Sept. 7, 2026.