Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia L40S

Cost-effective data center GPU for AI inference and media workloads.

High Performance Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX 5080

High-end Blackwell consumer GPU for gaming and local AI work.

Mid-Range Consumer

Memory per GPU

3x more on L40S
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48 GB GDDR6
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
16 GB GDDR7

Memory bandwidth

1.1x higher on RTX 5080
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864 GB/s
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
960 GB/s

GPU interconnect

Nvidia logo L40S
PCIe only
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
PCIe only

Peak performance (FP16)

3.5x higher on RTX 5080
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362 TFLOPS
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
1,280 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures. Sparsity and tensor-core conventions differ between vendors.

Precision support

Nvidia logo L40S
FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
FP4 FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

Nvidia logo L40S
Ada Lovelace
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
Blackwell

Released

2 years newer on RTX 5080
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Q3 2023
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
Q1 2025

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

3.7x higher on L40S
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$0.55 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
$0.15 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

5.3x higher on L40S
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$1.29 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
$0.24 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

7.6x higher on L40S
Nvidia logo L40S
$0.54 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
$0.07 / GPU / hr

Full price range

Nvidia logo L40S
$0.54 - $7.58 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
$0.07 - $0.39 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

28 more on L40S
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32
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
4

Price, last 90 days

Nvidia logo L40S
−2%
Nvidia logo RTX 5080
Too volatile to report

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market. Withheld where too few providers price the card, its history is too short, or its weekly print swings too hard to read as a trend.

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia L40S was last updated on Aug. 21, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5080 on Aug. 21, 2026.