Two Nvidia data center GPUs, one Ada Lovelace and one Turing: 48 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR6 and 2.7x the memory bandwidth on the L40.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.78 /GPU/hr
- 12 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 320 GB/s
- From
- $0.42 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L40 | T4G | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.78 | $0.42 | 46% cheaper on T4G |
| Spot | $0.78 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.70 | $0.18 | 3.9x more expensive on L40 |
| Median | $1.05 | $1.10 | Within 5% |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L40 vs T4G price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L40 | T4G | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 3x more on L40 |
| Bandwidth | 864 GB/s | 320 GB/s | 2.7x higher on L40 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on L40 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 362 TFLOPS | Not supported | L40 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 181.1 TFLOPS | 65 TFLOPS | 2.8x higher on L40 |
| INT8 | 362 TOPS | 130 TOPS | 2.8x higher on L40 |
| FP32 | 90.5 TFLOPS | 8.1 TFLOPS | 11x higher on L40 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 300 W | 70 W | 4.3x higher on L40 |
| Released | Q4 2022 | Q3 2020 | 2 years newer on L40 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L40 datasheet and T4G datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | L40 /GPU/hr | T4G /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 | -- |
AWS
|
-- | On-Demand $0.42 |
12 providers list the L40 and 1 the T4G. Every listing is on the L40 page and the T4G page.
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Our data for Nvidia L40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia T4G on Sept. 7, 2026.