NVIDIA L40vsNVIDIA L40S
NVIDIA L40 vs NVIDIA L40S: Specs, Benchmarks & Cloud Pricing
Full technical comparison of NVIDIA L40 and NVIDIA L40S — VRAM, memory bandwidth, FP16 TFLOPS, TDP, and live cloud pricing across all providers. Updated July 2026.
Technical Specifications
Spec
NVIDIA L40
NVIDIA L40S
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
VRAM
48 GB GDDR6
48 GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
864 GB/s
864 GB/s
FP16 performance
181 TFLOPS
362 TFLOPS
TDP
300 W
350 W
NVLink support
No
No
Release year
2022
2023
Green = better value for that metric.
NVIDIA L40
The NVIDIA L40 is the predecessor to the L40S, offering 48GB GDDR6 and Ada Lovelace architecture.
Best For
- Professional inference
- Rendering
- Visualization AI
NVIDIA L40S
The L40S is NVIDIA's inference-optimized Ada Lovelace GPU. 48GB GDDR6 and 362 TFLOPS FP16 make it a strong choice for production inference at lower cost than H100.
Best For
- Inference
- Video AI
- Multi-modal workloads