A data center GPU against a consumer card on the Ada Lovelace architecture: 48 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR6X and 21% more memory bandwidth on the L40.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.78 /GPU/hr
- 12 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 717 GB/s
- From
- $0.17 /GPU/hr
- 6 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L40 | RTX 4080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.78 | $0.17 | 4.5x more expensive on L40 |
| Spot | $0.78 | $0.11 | 7.1x more expensive on L40 |
| Reserved | $0.70 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.05 | $0.25 | 4.2x more expensive on L40 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L40 vs RTX 4080 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L40 | RTX 4080 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6X | 3x more on L40 |
| Bandwidth | 864 GB/s | 717 GB/s | 1.2x higher on L40 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on L40 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 362 TFLOPS | 194.9 TFLOPS | 1.9x higher on L40 |
| FP16 / BF16 | 181.1 TFLOPS | 97.5 TFLOPS | 1.9x higher on L40 |
| INT8 | 362 TOPS | 389.9 TOPS | 1.1x higher on RTX 4080 |
| FP32 | 90.5 TFLOPS | 48.7 TFLOPS | 1.9x higher on L40 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 300 W | 320 W | 1.1x higher on RTX 4080 |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q4 2022 | |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L40 datasheet and RTX 4080 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 4080 /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 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.17 |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $0.25 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.26 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.28 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.25 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.27 |
12 providers list the L40 and 6 the RTX 4080. Every listing is on the L40 page and the RTX 4080 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4080 on Sept. 7, 2026.