Nvidia L40 vs Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada

The RTX 6000 Ada has 11% more bandwidth, with the same 48 GB of memory.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

L40: 48 GB

RTX 6000 Ada: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

11% higher on RTX 6000 Ada

L40: 864 GB/s

RTX 6000 Ada: 960 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

16% cheaper on L40

L40: $0.46 /GPU/hr

RTX 6000 Ada: $0.54 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40	RTX 6000 Ada	Difference
On-demand	$1.00 /GPU/hr from $0.46	$0.86 /GPU/hr from $0.54	14% cheaper on RTX 6000 Ada
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70	-- /GPU/hr from $0.55 (1 mo)
Spot	$0.78 /GPU/hr from $0.40	-- /GPU/hr from $0.27

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 6000 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 6000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40	RTX 6000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	960 GB/s	11% higher on RTX 6000 Ada
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	362 TFLOPS	728.5 TFLOPS	2x higher on RTX 6000 Ada
FP16 / BF16	181.1 TFLOPS	364.2 TFLOPS	2x higher on RTX 6000 Ada
INT8	362 TOPS
FP32	90.5 TFLOPS	91.1 TFLOPS	Within 5%
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	300 W	Identical
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 6000 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 6000 Ada
Vast.ai USA	$0.46 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.84 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	$0.86 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$1.26 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Thunder Compute USA	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Hyperstack UK	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand