Nvidia L40S vs Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000

The L40S is newer, with 2x the memory and 29% more bandwidth. The Quadro RTX 6000 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on L40S

L40S: 48 GB

Quadro RTX 6000: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

29% higher on L40S

L40S: 864 GB/s

Quadro RTX 6000: 672 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

76% cheaper on Quadro RTX 6000

L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

Quadro RTX 6000: $0.13 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L40S	Quadro RTX 6000
On-demand	$1.40 /GPU/hr from $0.55	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13
Reserved	$1.17 /GPU/hr from $0.60 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (12 mo)
Spot	$0.98 /GPU/hr from $0.74	No spot listings

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 reserved on the Quadro RTX 6000: 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 Quadro RTX 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L40S	Quadro RTX 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	2x more on L40S
Bandwidth	864 GB/s	672 GB/s	29% higher on L40S
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP8	733 TFLOPS	Not supported	L40S only
FP16 / BF16	362.1 TFLOPS	130.5 TFLOPS	2.8x higher on L40S
INT8	733 TOPS	261 TOPS	2.8x higher on L40S
FP32	91.6 TFLOPS	16.3 TFLOPS	5.6x higher on L40S
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 100 GB/s	NVLink on Quadro RTX 6000 only
Board power	350 W	295 W	19% 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 Quadro RTX 6000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	L40S	Quadro RTX 6000
Vast.ai USA	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
Novita USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$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	--
Runcrate USA	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lambda Labs USA	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand