Nvidia L40S vs Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada

The L40S has 3x the memory and 3.9x the bandwidth. The RTX 2000 Ada is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on L40S

L40S: 48 GB

RTX 2000 Ada: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.9x higher on L40S

L40S: 864 GB/s

RTX 2000 Ada: 224 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

79% cheaper on RTX 2000 Ada

L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

RTX 2000 Ada: $0.12 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40S	RTX 2000 Ada
On-demand	$1.64 /GPU/hr from $0.55	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12
Reserved	$1.09 /GPU/hr from $0.61 (12 mo)	On request
Spot	$1.10 /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 RTX 2000 Ada: 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 RTX 2000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40S	RTX 2000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6	3x more on L40S
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	224 GB/s	3.9x higher on L40S
Bus width	384-bit	128-bit	3x wider on L40S
Compute · dense
FP8	733 TFLOPS	96.0 TFLOPS	7.6x higher on L40S
FP16 / BF16	362.1 TFLOPS	48.0 TFLOPS	7.5x higher on L40S
INT8	733 TOPS
FP32	91.6 TFLOPS	12 TFLOPS	7.6x higher on L40S
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	350 W	70 W	5x higher on L40S
Released	Q3 2023	Q2 2024	8 months newer on RTX 2000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L40S datasheet and RTX 2000 Ada datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	L40S	RTX 2000 Ada
Runpod USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand
Novita USA	$0.55 /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	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand