Nvidia L40 vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

The L40 has 50% more memory and 50% more bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on L40

L40: 48 GB

RTX 5000 Ada: 32 GB

Memory bandwidth

50% higher on L40

L40: 864 GB/s

RTX 5000 Ada: 576 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

7% cheaper on L40

L40: $0.46 /GPU/hr

RTX 5000 Ada: $0.49 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40	RTX 5000 Ada
On-demand	$1.05 /GPU/hr from $0.46	-- /GPU/hr from $0.49
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70	No reserved listings
Spot	$0.78 /GPU/hr from $0.40	No spot listings

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 on the RTX 5000 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 5000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40	RTX 5000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	32 GB GDDR6	50% more on L40
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	576 GB/s	50% higher on L40
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on L40
Compute · dense
FP8	362 TFLOPS	522.2 TFLOPS	44% higher on RTX 5000 Ada
FP16 / BF16	181.1 TFLOPS	261.1 TFLOPS	44% higher on RTX 5000 Ada
INT8	362 TOPS
FP32	90.5 TFLOPS	65.3 TFLOPS	39% higher on L40
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	250 W	20% higher on L40
Released	Q4 2022	Q3 2023	10 months newer on RTX 5000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L40 datasheet and RTX 5000 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 5000 Ada
Runpod USA	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vast.ai USA	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$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	--
Oblivus USA	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--