Nvidia L40S vs Nvidia P5000

The L40S is newer, with 3x the memory and 3x the bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on L40S

L40S: 48 GB

P5000: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

3x higher on L40S

L40S: 864 GB/s

P5000: 288 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

29% cheaper on L40S

L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

P5000: $0.78 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40S	P5000
On-demand	$1.60 /GPU/hr from $0.55	-- /GPU/hr from $0.78
Reserved	$1.09 /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 P5000: 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 P5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40S	P5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR5X	3x more on L40S
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	288 GB/s	3x 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
INT8	733 TOPS	Not supported	L40S only
FP32	91.6 TFLOPS	8.9 TFLOPS	10x higher on L40S
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	350 W	180 W	94% higher on L40S
Released	Q3 2023	Q4 2016	7 years newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32

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

Source: L40S datasheet and P5000 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	P5000
Novita USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
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	--
UpCloud Finland	$1.19 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Paperspace USA	--	$0.78 /GPU/hr On-demand