A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ada Lovelace and one Turing: 48 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR6, 93% more memory bandwidth on the L40S, and NVLink 50 GB/s on the RTX 5000 where the L40S is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.55 /GPU/hr
- 34 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.60 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L40S | RTX 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.55 | $0.60 | 8% cheaper on L40S |
| Spot | $0.74 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.60 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.60 | $0.71 | 2.3x 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 5000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L40S | RTX 5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 3x more on L40S |
| Bandwidth | 864 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 1.9x higher on L40S |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on L40S |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 733 TFLOPS | Not supported | L40S only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 362.1 TFLOPS | 89.2 TFLOPS | 4.1x higher on L40S |
| INT8 | 733 TOPS | 178.4 TOPS | 4.1x higher on L40S |
| FP32 | 91.6 TFLOPS | 11.2 TFLOPS | 8.2x higher on L40S |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 50 GB/s | NVLink on RTX 5000 only |
| Board power | 350 W | 265 W | 1.3x higher on L40S |
| Released | Q3 2023 | Q3 2018 | 5 years newer on L40S |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L40S datasheet and RTX 5000 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 5000 /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 | -- |
OVH
|
-- | On-Demand $0.60 |
Paperspace
|
-- | On-Demand $0.82 |
34 providers list the L40S and 2 the RTX 5000. Every listing is on the L40S page and the RTX 5000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L40S was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.