Nvidia L40S vs Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti

The L40S is newer, with 4.4x the memory and 40% more bandwidth. The RTX 2080 Ti is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

4.4x more on L40S

L40S: 48 GB

RTX 2080 Ti: 11 GB

Memory bandwidth

40% higher on L40S

L40S: 864 GB/s

RTX 2080 Ti: 616 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

76% cheaper on RTX 2080 Ti

L40S: $0.38 /GPU/hr

RTX 2080 Ti: $0.09 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40S	RTX 2080 Ti	Difference
On-demand	$1.50 /GPU/hr from $0.38	$0.10 /GPU/hr from $0.09	93% cheaper on RTX 2080 Ti
Reserved	$1.10 /GPU/hr from $0.60 (12 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	$0.98 /GPU/hr from $0.40	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06

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 spot on the RTX 2080 Ti: 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 2080 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40S	RTX 2080 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	11 GB GDDR6	4.4x more on L40S
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	616 GB/s	40% higher on L40S
Bus width	384-bit	352-bit	9% wider on L40S
Compute · dense
FP8	733 TFLOPS	Not supported	L40S only
FP16 / BF16	362.1 TFLOPS	53.8 TFLOPS	6.7x higher on L40S
INT8	733 TOPS	215.2 TOPS	3.4x higher on L40S
FP32	91.6 TFLOPS	13.4 TFLOPS	6.8x higher on L40S
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 100 GB/s	NVLink on RTX 2080 Ti only
Board power	350 W	250 W	40% higher on L40S
Released	Q3 2023	Q3 2018	5 years newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L40S datasheet and RTX 2080 Ti 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 2080 Ti
Vast.ai USA	$0.67 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.09 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lium Distributed	$0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Novita USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.70 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Packet·ai USA	$0.92 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.09 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand