Nvidia L40S vs Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti

The L40S is newer and has 4x the memory, while the RTX 3080 Ti has 6% more bandwidth. The RTX 3080 Ti is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

4x more on L40S

L40S: 48 GB

RTX 3080 Ti: 12 GB

Memory bandwidth

6% higher on RTX 3080 Ti

L40S: 864 GB/s

RTX 3080 Ti: 912 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

72% cheaper on RTX 3080 Ti

L40S: $0.38 /GPU/hr

RTX 3080 Ti: $0.11 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40S	RTX 3080 Ti	Difference
On-demand	$1.60 /GPU/hr from $0.38	$0.17 /GPU/hr from $0.11	90% cheaper on RTX 3080 Ti
Reserved	$1.10 /GPU/hr from $0.49 (6 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11 (1 mo)
Spot	$0.98 /GPU/hr from $0.33	-- /GPU/hr from $0.05

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 3080 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 3080 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40S	RTX 3080 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR6X	4x more on L40S
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	912 GB/s	6% higher on RTX 3080 Ti
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	733 TFLOPS	Not supported	L40S only
FP16 / BF16	362.1 TFLOPS	68.2 TFLOPS	5.3x higher on L40S
INT8	733 TOPS	272.8 TOPS	2.7x higher on L40S
FP32	91.6 TFLOPS	34.1 TFLOPS	2.7x higher on L40S
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	350 W	350 W	Identical
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 3080 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 3080 Ti
Vast.ai USA	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.18 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lium Distributed	$0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Novita USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.67 /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	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand
Exoscale Switzerland	--	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand