A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Ada Lovelace and one Blackwell: 48 GB GDDR6 against 32 GB GDDR7 and 2.1x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5090.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.33 /GPU/hr
- 14 providers
- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.79 TB/s
- From
- $0.35 /GPU/hr
- 20 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L40 | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.33 | $0.35 | 6% cheaper on L40 |
| Spot | $0.40 | $0.20 | 49% cheaper on RTX 5090 |
| Reserved | $0.70 | $0.21 | 3.3x more expensive on L40 |
| Median | $1.00 | $0.68 | 32% cheaper on RTX 5090 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L40 vs RTX 5090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L40 | RTX 5090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB GDDR7 | 1.5x more on L40 |
| Bandwidth | 864 GB/s | 1,792 GB/s | 2.1x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 512-bit | 1.3x wider on RTX 5090 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 1,676 TFLOPS | RTX 5090 only |
| FP8 | 362 TFLOPS | 419 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 5090 |
| FP16 / BF16 | 181.1 TFLOPS | 209.5 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 5090 |
| INT8 | 362 TOPS | 838 TOPS | 2.3x higher on RTX 5090 |
| FP32 | 90.5 TFLOPS | 104.8 TFLOPS | 1.2x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 300 W | 575 W | 1.9x higher on RTX 5090 |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q1 2025 | 2 years newer on RTX 5090 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L40 datasheet and RTX 5090 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 5090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Lium
|
On-Demand $0.33 | On-Demand $0.50 |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.46 | On-Demand $0.51 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.78 | On-Demand $0.52 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.70 | -- |
Thunder Compute
|
On-Demand $0.79 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.86 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.35 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.45 |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $0.46 |
Nova Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.63 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.82 |
14 providers list the L40 and 20 the RTX 5090. Every listing is on the L40 page and the RTX 5090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5090 on Sept. 7, 2026.