L40S vs T4
The L40S delivers 5.6× the FP16 compute of the T4 while costing 3.3× more on average, making it 69% more cost-efficient per TFLOP.
Spec Comparison
Spec
L40S
T4
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Older
VRAM
48 GB
16 GB
FP16 TFLOPS
362
65
Memory Bandwidth
864 GB/s
320 GB/s
MSRP
$14,000
N/A
Used/Market Price
$9,000
$1,500
Live Pricing
Cost Efficiency
Metric
L40S
T4
$/TFLOP/hr
$0.0083
$0.0140
$/GB-VRAM/hr
$0.0626
$0.0568
Lower $/TFLOP and $/GB-VRAM is better. Based on median hourly pricing.
Provider Availability
Both available on (1)
Only on L40S (18)
Only on T4 (7)
L40S Cloud Pricing
180 instances| Provider | GPUs | VRAM | Region | Type | Price/hr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHEAPESTVerda | 1x | 48 GB | EU-Central | Spot | $0.320 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | US-East | Spot | $0.446 | Rent |
| Crusoe | 1x | 48 GB | US-West | Spot | $0.500 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | US-East | Spot | $0.532 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.560 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | US-East | Spot | $0.587 | Rent |
| Verda | 2x | 96 GB | EU-Central | Spot | $0.640 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.669 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | eu-north-1 | Spot | $0.723 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | eu-north-1 | Spot | $0.723 | Rent |
T4 Cloud Pricing
1557 instances| Provider | GPUs | VRAM | Region | Type | Price/hr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHEAPESTAzure | 1x | 16 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.0684 | Rent |
| Azure | 1x | 16 GB | US-Central | Spot | $0.0686 | Rent |
| Azure | 1x | 16 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.0977 | Rent |
| Azure | 1x | 16 GB | US-Central | Spot | $0.0980 | Rent |
| GCP | 1x | 16 GB | me-west1-b | Spot | $0.112 | Rent |
| GCP | 1x | 16 GB | me-west1-c | Spot | $0.112 | Rent |
| GCP | 1x | 16 GB | EU-West | Spot | $0.117 | Rent |
| GCP | 1x | 16 GB | me-west1-b | Spot | $0.118 | Rent |
| GCP | 1x | 16 GB | me-west1-c | Spot | $0.118 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 16 GB | South America | Spot | $0.123 | Rent |