NVIDIA L40S Cloud GPU Specs
HexGrid Cloud rents the NVIDIA L40S at $1.09 per GPU hour, billed per minute. The L40S carries 48GB of GDDR6 memory on the Ada Lovelace architecture.
HexGrid Cloud price
$1.09/hr
Billed per minute
VRAM
48GB
GDDR6
FP32
91.6 TFLOPS
Compute performance
Market average
$1.09/hr
Other clouds, list price
Running the L40S on HexGrid Cloud
What you get when you deploy with us, beyond the hourly rate.
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Per-minute billing
You pay for the minutes you use. Stop the instance and billing stops with it.
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L40S pricing across the market
Published on-demand rates from other clouds, so you can see where our L40S price sits.
Market average $1.09/hr across 1 cloud
- HexGrid CloudYou're here$1.09/hr
- RunPod$1.09/hr
Other providers' rates are their published on-demand list prices, last checked Sep 15, 2026. They exclude committed-use discounts and can change at any time. Shown for reference only.
About the NVIDIA L40S
What the L40S is built for, and where it falls short.
The NVIDIA L40S is a 48GB datacenter GPU based on NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture. It combines high FP32 performance with fourth-generation Tensor Cores and FP8 support, making it suitable for AI inference, model fine-tuning, image and video generation, rendering, and GPU-accelerated virtual workstations.
Best suited for
The L40S is particularly strong for inference and generative AI workloads that benefit from 48GB of VRAM and FP8 Tensor Core acceleration.
- LLM inference
- LLM fine-tuning
- Image generation
- Video generation
- 3D rendering
- Virtual workstations
Strengths
- 48GB of ECC GPU memory
- Strong FP8 and FP16 Tensor performance
- Excellent generative image and video performance
- High rendering performance
- AV1 hardware encoding
Limitations
- No NVLink support
- No MIG support
- Less suitable for very large distributed training jobs than H100-class accelerators
NVIDIA L40S specifications
Full technical specifications for the NVIDIA L40S.
Memory
- Memory
- 48 GB
- Type
- GDDR6
- Bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- Bus width
- 384-bit
- ECC
- Yes
Compute
- CUDA cores
- 18,176
- Tensor cores
- 568
- Tensor generation
- Gen 4
- RT cores
- 142
- Boost clock
- 2,520 MHz
AI & compute performance
- FP32
- 91.6 TFLOPS
- TF32 Tensor
- 183 TFLOPS / 366 TFLOPS sparse
- BF16 Tensor
- 362.05 TFLOPS / 733 TFLOPS sparse
- FP16 Tensor
- 362.05 TFLOPS / 733 TFLOPS sparse
- FP8 Tensor
- 733 TFLOPS / 1,466 TFLOPS sparse
- INT8 Tensor
- 733 TOPS / 1,466 TOPS sparse
- RT
- 212 TFLOPS
Power & physical
- TDP
- 350 W
- Power connector
- 16-pin
- Form factor
- Dual-slot
- Cooling
- Passive
- Length
- 267 mm
Interconnect
- Interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
- NVLink
- No
- Infinity Fabric
- No
Virtualization
- MIG
- No
- vGPU
- Yes
Media engines
- NVENC engines
- 3
- NVDEC engines
- 3
- AV1 encode
- Yes
- AV1 decode
- Yes
Software
- CUDA
- Yes
- ROCm
- No
Precision support
- FP64
- No
- FP32
- Yes
- TF32
- Yes
- BF16
- Yes
- FP16
- Yes
- FP8
- Yes
- INT8
- Yes
L40S frequently asked questions
Common questions about NVIDIA L40S pricing, specifications and workloads on HexGrid Cloud.
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA L40S have?
The NVIDIA L40S has 48GB of GDDR6 ECC memory with 864 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
How much does an L40S cost per hour?
Cloud L40S pricing varies by provider and region. HexGrid compares currently available offers on this page, with the lowest available hourly price shown above.
Is the L40S good for LLM inference?
Yes. Its 48GB VRAM, FP8 support, and fourth-generation Tensor Cores make the L40S well suited to LLM inference and many fine-tuning workloads.
Does the NVIDIA L40S support NVLink?
No. The NVIDIA L40S uses PCIe 4.0 x16 and does not support NVLink.
Does the L40S support FP8?
Yes. The L40S supports FP8 Tensor Core operations, which can be particularly useful for supported AI inference and training workloads.
Other GPUs on HexGrid Cloud
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