A data center GPU against a consumer card on the Ada Lovelace architecture: 48 GB GDDR6 against 12 GB GDDR6X and 71% more memory bandwidth on the L40S.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.55 /GPU/hr
- 34 providers
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 504 GB/s
- From
- $0.19 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L40S | RTX 4070 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.55 | $0.19 | 2.9x more expensive on L40S |
| Spot | $0.74 | $0.08 | 9.2x more expensive on L40S |
| Reserved | $0.60 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.60 | $0.21 | 7.5x more expensive on L40S |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L40S vs RTX 4070 Ti price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L40S | RTX 4070 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR6X | 4x more on L40S |
| Bandwidth | 864 GB/s | 504 GB/s | 1.7x higher on L40S |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 192-bit | 2x wider on L40S |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 733 TFLOPS | 160.4 TFLOPS | 4.6x higher on L40S |
| FP16 / BF16 | 362.1 TFLOPS | 80.2 TFLOPS | 4.5x higher on L40S |
| INT8 | 733 TOPS | 320.7 TOPS | 2.3x higher on L40S |
| FP32 | 91.6 TFLOPS | 40.1 TFLOPS | 2.3x higher on L40S |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 350 W | 285 W | 1.2x higher on L40S |
| Released | Q3 2023 | Q1 2023 | 7 months newer on L40S |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L40S datasheet and RTX 4070 Ti datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | L40S /GPU/hr | RTX 4070 Ti /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Novita
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.80 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
On-Demand $0.92 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
UpCloud
|
On-Demand $1.19 | -- |
Koyeb
|
On-Demand $1.20 | -- |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.19 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.24 |
34 providers list the L40S and 2 the RTX 4070 Ti. Every listing is on the L40S page and the RTX 4070 Ti page.
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Our data for Nvidia L40S was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.