Nvidia L40 vs Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada

The L40 has 2.4x the memory and 2.4x the bandwidth. The RTX 4000 Ada is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

2.4x more on L40

L40: 48 GB

RTX 4000 Ada: 20 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.4x higher on L40

L40: 864 GB/s

RTX 4000 Ada: 360 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

56% cheaper on RTX 4000 Ada

L40: $0.46 /GPU/hr

RTX 4000 Ada: $0.20 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40	RTX 4000 Ada	Difference
On-demand	$1.05 /GPU/hr from $0.46	$0.51 /GPU/hr from $0.20	51% cheaper on RTX 4000 Ada
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70	-- /GPU/hr from $0.18 (3 mo)
Spot	$0.78 /GPU/hr from $0.40	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 4000 Ada: 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 4000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40	RTX 4000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	20 GB GDDR6	2.4x more on L40
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	360 GB/s	2.4x higher on L40
Bus width	384-bit	160-bit	2.4x wider on L40
Compute · dense
FP8	362 TFLOPS	213.8 TFLOPS	69% higher on L40
FP16 / BF16	181.1 TFLOPS	106.9 TFLOPS	69% higher on L40
INT8	362 TOPS
FP32	90.5 TFLOPS	26.7 TFLOPS	3.4x higher on L40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	130 W	2.3x higher on L40
Released	Q4 2022	Q3 2023	10 months newer on RTX 4000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L40 datasheet and RTX 4000 Ada 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 4000 Ada
Vast.ai USA	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.28 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	On request Reserved
Sesterce France	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.87 /GPU/hr On-demand
Thunder Compute USA	$0.79 /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	--
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$0.52 /GPU/hr On-demand
DigitalOcean USA	--	$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand