Nvidia L40S vs Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti

The L40S is newer, with 6x the memory and 42% more bandwidth. The RTX 3070 Ti is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on L40S

L40S: 48 GB

RTX 3070 Ti: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

42% higher on L40S

L40S: 864 GB/s

RTX 3070 Ti: 608 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

82% cheaper on RTX 3070 Ti

L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

RTX 3070 Ti: $0.10 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40S	RTX 3070 Ti
On-demand	$1.60 /GPU/hr from $0.55	-- /GPU/hr from $0.10
Reserved	$1.10 /GPU/hr from $0.61 (12 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	$0.99 /GPU/hr from $0.74	-- /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 on-demand and spot on the RTX 3070 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 3070 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40S	RTX 3070 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6X	6x more on L40S
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	608 GB/s	42% 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	43.5 TFLOPS	8.3x higher on L40S
INT8	733 TOPS	174 TOPS	4.2x higher on L40S
FP32	91.6 TFLOPS	21.8 TFLOPS	4.2x higher on L40S
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	350 W	290 W	21% higher on L40S
Released	Q3 2023	Q2 2021	2 years newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L40S datasheet and RTX 3070 Ti 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	RTX 3070 Ti
Novita USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.79 /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	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand