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L40S vs RTX 6000 Ada

Both use Ada Lovelace with 48GB. The RTX 6000 Ada adds ECC and ISV certifications, the L40S is optimized for cloud inference. Choose RTX 6000 Ada for workstation use, L40S for cloud deployment.

Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia L40S

The Nvidia L40S is a data center GPU on the Ada Lovelace architecture, released Q3 2023, with 48 GB GDDR6 and 864 GB/s memory bandwidth.

High Performance Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada

The Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada is a workstation GPU on the Ada Lovelace architecture, released Q4 2022, with 48 GB GDDR6 and 960 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Workstation

Memory per GPU

Identical
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48 GB GDDR6
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48 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

1.1x higher on RTX 6000 Ada
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864 GB/s
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada
960 GB/s

GPU interconnect

Nvidia logo L40S
PCIe only
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PCIe only

Peak performance (FP8)

Within 5%
Nvidia logo L40S
733 TFLOPS
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada
728.5 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

FP8 per watt

1.2x higher on RTX 6000 Ada
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2.09 TFLOPS/W
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada
2.43 TFLOPS/W

Board power

1.2x higher on L40S
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350 W
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada
300 W

Precision support

Nvidia logo L40S
FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8
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FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Ada Lovelace
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada
Ada Lovelace

Released

8 months newer on L40S
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Q3 2023
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada
Q4 2022

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

Within 5%
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$0.55 / GPU / hr
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$0.53 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.8x higher on L40S
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$1.50 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada
$0.85 / GPU / hr

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

Spot floor

2.2x higher on L40S
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$0.40 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 6000 Ada
$0.18 / GPU / hr

Providers listing it

23 more on L40S
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34
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11

Price, last 90 days

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−3%
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−14%

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market.

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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 Sept. 3, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada on Sept. 3, 2026.