A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ada Lovelace and one Turing: 48 GB GDDR6 against 24 GB GDDR6, 29% more memory bandwidth on the L40, and NVLink 100 GB/s on the Quadro RTX 6000 where the L40 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 4 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.33 /GPU/hr
- 14 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- From
- $0.13 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L40 | Quadro RTX 6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.33 | $0.13 | 2.5x more expensive on L40 |
| Spot | $0.40 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.70 | $0.12 | 6x more expensive on L40 |
| Median | $1.00 | $0.82 | 18% cheaper on Quadro RTX 6000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L40 vs Quadro RTX 6000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L40 | Quadro RTX 6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6 | 2x more on L40 |
| Bandwidth | 864 GB/s | 672 GB/s | 1.3x higher on L40 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 384-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 362 TFLOPS | Not supported | L40 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 181.1 TFLOPS | 130.5 TFLOPS | 1.4x higher on L40 |
| INT8 | 362 TOPS | 261 TOPS | 1.4x higher on L40 |
| FP32 | 90.5 TFLOPS | 16.3 TFLOPS | 5.6x higher on L40 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 100 GB/s | NVLink on Quadro RTX 6000 only |
| Board power | 300 W | 295 W | Within 5% |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q3 2018 | 4 years newer on L40 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L40 datasheet and Quadro RTX 6000 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | L40 /GPU/hr | Quadro RTX 6000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.46 | On-Demand $0.13 |
Lium
|
On-Demand $0.33 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.70 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.78 | -- |
Thunder Compute
|
On-Demand $0.79 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.86 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
Akamai Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.50 |
Lambda Labs
|
-- | On-Demand $0.69 |
14 providers list the L40 and 3 the Quadro RTX 6000. Every listing is on the L40 page and the Quadro RTX 6000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000 on Sept. 7, 2026.