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L40 vs L40S

Nvidia L40 vs Nvidia L40S

Two Nvidia data center GPUs on the Ada Lovelace architecture: both with 48 GB GDDR6 and 864 GB/s memory bandwidth, released 10 months apart.

At a glance

Memory

L40: 48 GB
L40S: 48 GB

Identical

Memory bandwidth

L40: 864 GB/s
L40S: 864 GB/s

Identical

Cheapest on-demand

L40: $0.45 /GPU/hr
L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

17% cheaper on L40

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40	L40S	Difference
On-demand	$1.00 /GPU/hr from $0.45	$1.40 /GPU/hr from $0.55	28% cheaper on L40
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.70	$1.04 /GPU/hr from $0.60 (12 mo)
Spot	$0.78 /GPU/hr from $0.27	$0.98 /GPU/hr from $0.47	20% cheaper on L40

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: 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 L40S price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40	L40S	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	48 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	864 GB/s	Identical
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	362 TFLOPS	733 TFLOPS	2x higher on L40S
FP16 / BF16	181.1 TFLOPS	362.1 TFLOPS	2x higher on L40S
INT8	362 TOPS	733 TOPS	2x higher on L40S
FP32	90.5 TFLOPS	91.6 TFLOPS	Within 5%
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	300 W	350 W	1.2x higher on L40S
Released	Q4 2022	Q3 2023	10 months newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L40 datasheet and L40S datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	L40 /GPU/hr	L40S /GPU/hr
Vast.ai	On-Demand $0.45	On-Demand $0.74
GPU.ai	On-Demand $0.69	On-Demand $0.79
Runpod	On-Demand $0.69	On-Demand $0.79
Massed Compute	On-Demand $0.86	On-Demand $0.97
Sesterce	On-Demand $0.97	On-Demand $0.97
Runcrate	On-Demand $0.97	On-Demand $0.97
Thunder Compute	On-Demand $0.79	--
Oblivus	On-Demand $1.05	--
Novita	--	On-Demand $0.55
Packet·ai	--	On-Demand $0.92