Two Nvidia data center GPUs, one Ada Lovelace and one Maxwell: 48 GB GDDR6 against 8 GB GDDR5 and 5.4x the memory bandwidth on the L40S.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.38 /GPU/hr
- 36 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 160 GB/s
- From
- $0.75 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L40S | M60 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.38 | $0.75 | 49% cheaper on L40S |
| Spot | $0.47 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.60 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.28 | $1.14 | 11% cheaper on M60 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L40S vs M60 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L40S | M60 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR5 | 6x more on L40S |
| Bandwidth | 864 GB/s | 160 GB/s | 5.4x higher on L40S |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x 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 | 4.8 TFLOPS | 19x higher on L40S |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 350 W | 150 W | 2.3x higher on L40S |
| Released | Q3 2023 | Q3 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 M60 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | L40S /GPU/hr | M60 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Lium
|
On-Demand $0.38 | -- |
Novita
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.74 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.80 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.80 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
On-Demand $0.92 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
AWS
|
-- | On-Demand $0.75 |
36 providers list the L40S and 1 the M60. Every listing is on the L40S page and the M60 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L40S was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia M60 on Sept. 7, 2026.