Nvidia L40S vs Nvidia M4000

The L40S is newer, with 6x the memory and 4.5x the bandwidth. The M4000 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on L40S

L40S: 48 GB

M4000: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.5x higher on L40S

L40S: 864 GB/s

M4000: 192 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

18% cheaper on M4000

L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

M4000: $0.45 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40S	M4000
On-demand	$1.57 /GPU/hr from $0.55	-- /GPU/hr from $0.45
Reserved	$1.10 /GPU/hr from $0.61 (12 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	$0.99 /GPU/hr from $0.74	No spot listings

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 on-demand on the M4000: 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

L40S vs M4000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40S	M4000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5	6x more on L40S
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	192 GB/s	4.5x higher on L40S
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on L40S
Compute · dense
FP8	733 TFLOPS	Not supported	L40S only
FP16 / BF16	362.1 TFLOPS	Not supported	L40S only
INT8	733 TOPS	Not supported	L40S only
FP32	91.6 TFLOPS	2.6 TFLOPS	36x higher on L40S
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	350 W	120 W	2.9x higher on L40S
Released	Q3 2023	Q2 2015	8 years newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP32

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

Source: L40S datasheet and M4000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	L40S	M4000
Novita USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$0.75 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Runpod USA	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Packet·ai USA	$0.92 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Paperspace USA	--	$0.45 /GPU/hr On-demand