Nvidia L40S vs Nvidia RTX 4070

The L40S has 4x the memory and 71% more bandwidth. The RTX 4070 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

4x more on L40S

L40S: 48 GB

RTX 4070: 12 GB

Memory bandwidth

71% higher on L40S

L40S: 864 GB/s

RTX 4070: 504 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

73% cheaper on RTX 4070

L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

RTX 4070: $0.15 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40S	RTX 4070
On-demand	$1.60 /GPU/hr from $0.55	-- /GPU/hr from $0.15
Reserved	$1.10 /GPU/hr from $0.61 (12 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	$0.99 /GPU/hr from $0.74	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07

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 4070: 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 4070 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40S	RTX 4070	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR6X	4x more on L40S
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	504 GB/s	71% higher on L40S
Bus width	384-bit	192-bit	2x wider on L40S
Compute · dense
FP8	733 TFLOPS	116.6 TFLOPS	6.3x higher on L40S
FP16 / BF16	362.1 TFLOPS	58.3 TFLOPS	6.2x higher on L40S
INT8	733 TOPS	233.2 TOPS	3.1x higher on L40S
FP32	91.6 TFLOPS	29.1 TFLOPS	3.1x higher on L40S
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	350 W	200 W	75% 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 4070 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 4070
Novita USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$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	--
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	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand