Nvidia L40S vs Nvidia RTX 4060

The L40S has 6x the memory and 3.2x the bandwidth. The RTX 4060 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on L40S

L40S: 48 GB

RTX 4060: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.2x higher on L40S

L40S: 864 GB/s

RTX 4060: 272 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

85% cheaper on RTX 4060

L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

RTX 4060: $0.08 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40S	RTX 4060
On-demand	$1.64 /GPU/hr from $0.55	-- /GPU/hr from $0.08
Reserved	$1.15 /GPU/hr from $0.61 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.21 (24 mo)
Spot	$0.99 /GPU/hr from $0.74	-- /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 on-demand, reserved and spot on the RTX 4060: 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 4060 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40S	RTX 4060	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	6x more on L40S
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	272 GB/s	3.2x higher on L40S
Bus width	384-bit	128-bit	3x wider on L40S
Compute · dense
FP8	733 TFLOPS	60.5 TFLOPS	12x higher on L40S
FP16 / BF16	362.1 TFLOPS	30.2 TFLOPS	12x higher on L40S
INT8	733 TOPS	120.9 TOPS	6.1x higher on L40S
FP32	91.6 TFLOPS	15.1 TFLOPS	6.1x higher on L40S
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	350 W	115 W	3x higher on L40S
Released	Q3 2023	Q2 2023
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L40S datasheet and RTX 4060 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 4060
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	--
Runpod USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
UpCloud Finland	$1.19 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.21 /GPU/hr Reserved