A data center GPU against a workstation card on the Ada Lovelace architecture: 48 GB GDDR6 against 20 GB GDDR6 and 2.4x the memory bandwidth on the L40.
At a glance
Updated 9 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.78 /GPU/hr
- 12 providers
- Memory
- 20 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.52 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L40 | RTX 4000 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.78 | $0.52 | 33% cheaper on RTX 4000 Ada |
| Spot | $0.78 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.70 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.05 | $0.75 | 29% cheaper on RTX 4000 Ada |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L40 vs RTX 4000 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
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 | 1.7x higher on L40 |
| FP16 / BF16 | 181.1 TFLOPS | 106.9 TFLOPS | 1.7x 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 listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | L40 /GPU/hr | RTX 4000 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.10 | On-Demand $0.87 |
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 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $1.50 | -- |
Akamai Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.52 |
DigitalOcean
|
-- | On-Demand $0.76 |
Runpod
|
-- | Reservation on request |
12 providers list the L40 and 4 the RTX 4000 Ada. Every listing is on the L40 page and the RTX 4000 Ada page.
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Our data for Nvidia L40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.