Nvidia L40 vs Nvidia RTX 3050

The L40 has 6x the memory and 3.9x the bandwidth. The RTX 3050 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on L40

L40: 48 GB

RTX 3050: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.9x higher on L40

L40: 864 GB/s

RTX 3050: 224 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

85% cheaper on RTX 3050

L40: $0.46 /GPU/hr

RTX 3050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40	RTX 3050
On-demand	$1.00 /GPU/hr from $0.46	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70	No reserved listings
Spot	$0.78 /GPU/hr from $0.40	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03

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 and spot on the RTX 3050: 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 3050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40	RTX 3050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	6x more on L40
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	224 GB/s	3.9x higher on L40
Bus width	384-bit	128-bit	3x wider on L40
Compute · dense
FP8	362 TFLOPS	Not supported	L40 only
FP16 / BF16	181.1 TFLOPS	18.2 TFLOPS	9.9x higher on L40
INT8	362 TOPS	72.8 TOPS	5x higher on L40
FP32	90.5 TFLOPS	9.1 TFLOPS	9.9x higher on L40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	130 W	2.3x higher on L40
Released	Q4 2022	Q1 2022	9 months newer on L40
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L40 datasheet and RTX 3050 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	RTX 3050
Vast.ai USA	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.69 /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	--
Runcrate USA	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand