A data center GPU against a workstation card, one Ada Lovelace and one Blackwell: 48 GB GDDR6 against 24 GB GDDR7 and 29% more memory bandwidth on the L40S.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- From
- $0.55 /GPU/hr
- 33 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- From
- $20.00 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L40S | RTX PRO 4000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.55 | $20.00 | 36x more expensive on RTX PRO 4000 |
| Spot | $0.74 | $13.33 | 18x more expensive on RTX PRO 4000 |
| Reserved | $0.60 | $0.26 | 2.3x more expensive on L40S |
| Median | $1.66 | $20.00 | 12x more expensive on RTX PRO 4000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L40S vs RTX PRO 4000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L40S | RTX PRO 4000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR7 | 2x more on L40S |
| Bandwidth | 864 GB/s | 672 GB/s | 1.3x higher on L40S |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 192-bit | 2x wider on L40S |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 589 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 4000 only |
| FP8 | 733 TFLOPS | 294.5 TFLOPS | 2.5x higher on L40S |
| FP16 / BF16 | 362.1 TFLOPS | 147.3 TFLOPS | 2.5x higher on L40S |
| INT8 | 733 TOPS | 294.5 TOPS | 2.5x higher on L40S |
| FP32 | 91.6 TFLOPS | 37 TFLOPS | 2.5x higher on L40S |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 350 W | 145 W | 2.4x higher on L40S |
| Released | Q3 2023 | Q1 2025 | 2 years newer on RTX PRO 4000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L40S datasheet and RTX PRO 4000 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 PRO 4000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Runpod
|
On-Demand $1.09 | Reservation on request |
Novita
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
On-Demand $0.92 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.97 | -- |
UpCloud
|
On-Demand $1.19 | -- |
Koyeb
|
On-Demand $1.20 | -- |
Crusoe
|
On-Demand $1.50 | -- |
Scaleway
|
On-Demand $1.70 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $20.00 |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.26 |
33 providers list the L40S and 3 the RTX PRO 4000. Every listing is on the L40S page and the RTX PRO 4000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L40S was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX PRO 4000 on Sept. 7, 2026.