Nvidia L40 vs Nvidia RTX 2060

The L40 is newer, with 8x the memory and 2.6x the bandwidth. The RTX 2060 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

8x more on L40

L40: 48 GB

RTX 2060: 6 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.6x higher on L40

L40: 864 GB/s

RTX 2060: 336 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

89% cheaper on RTX 2060

L40: $0.46 /GPU/hr

RTX 2060: $0.05 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40	RTX 2060
On-demand	$1.05 /GPU/hr from $0.46	-- /GPU/hr from $0.05
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70	-- /GPU/hr from $0.17 (24 mo)
Spot	$0.78 /GPU/hr from $0.40	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02

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 RTX 2060: 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 RTX 2060 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40	RTX 2060	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	6 GB GDDR6	8x more on L40
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	336 GB/s	2.6x higher on L40
Bus width	384-bit	192-bit	2x wider on L40
Compute · dense
FP8	362 TFLOPS	Not supported	L40 only
FP16 / BF16	181.1 TFLOPS	25.8 TFLOPS	7x higher on L40
INT8	362 TOPS	103.2 TOPS	3.5x higher on L40
FP32	90.5 TFLOPS	6.5 TFLOPS	14x higher on L40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	160 W	88% higher on L40
Released	Q4 2022	Q1 2019	4 years newer on L40
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

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

Source: L40 datasheet and RTX 2060 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	RTX 2060
Vast.ai USA	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.78 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Thunder Compute USA	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.86 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Hyperstack UK	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Oblivus USA	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.05 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.17 /GPU/hr Reserved