GPU Rent Hub GPUsA100 SXM vs L40S

A100 SXM vs L40S: specs, price and which to rent

GPU Rent Hub rents both cards as dedicated bare metal in three United States datacenters, paid in Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Monero, Solana or Litecoin with no identity verification. The A100 SXM is $990 a month and the L40S is $520 a month. Everything below is measured, not argued.

Updated 2026-09-01

$470Monthly price difference

32 GBMemory difference

$1.38A100 SXM per GPU-hour

$0.72L40S per GPU-hour

01 Side by side

What is the difference between the A100 SXM and the L40S?

Every figure is the one we rent against, taken from the same catalogue the dashboard prices from. Per-GPU-hour is the flat monthly price divided by 720 hours; you are never billed by the hour.

	A100 SXM	L40S
Memory	80 GB HBM2e	48 GB GDDR6 ECC
Memory bandwidth	2.04 TB/s	864 GB/s
Architecture	Ampere (2020)	Ada Lovelace (2023)
Cores	6,912 CUDA · 432 Tensor	18,176 CUDA · 568 Tensor · 142 RT
FP8	not supported	1,466 TFLOPS (sparse)
FP16	624 TFLOPS (sparse)	733 TFLOPS (sparse)
Interconnect	NVLink · 600 GB/s	PCIe Gen4 peer-to-peer
Board power	400 W	350 W
Host vCPU	16	16
Host RAM	125 GB	94 GB
Local NVMe	1 TB	500 GB
Weekly price	$280	$148
Monthly price	$990	$520
Per GPU-hour	$1.38	$0.72
Price per GB of VRAM	$12.38	$10.83
In stock now	78	74

02 Verdict

Which should you rent?

The A100 SXM carries 32 GB more memory, which is the only thing that decides whether a model loads at all. The L40S supports FP8 and the A100 SXM does not, which is unusual for the cheaper card and makes it the better inference buy. Bandwidth is 2.04 TB/s against 864 GB/s, and for single-stream token generation it is bandwidth that sets the speed, not the FLOPS figure on the spec sheet. Only the A100 SXM has NVLink, so multi-card training scales on it and struggles on the L40S. The A100 SXM costs 90% more per month, $990 against $520, or $1.38 against $0.72 per GPU-hour.

Work out how much VRAM your model actually needs

Rent the A100 SXM when

The cheapest 80 GB card with NVLink. 80 GB of HBM2e under $1,000 a month, the value pick for multi-week runs.

$990/mo · $280/wk · specifications and stock

Rent the L40S when

Serving 7B–34B models in production. 48 GB with FP8 support and RT cores, the best inference card per dollar in our fleet.

$520/mo · $148/wk · specifications and stock

03 Availability

Where each card is in stock

A dash means the card is on the waitlist in that region. The price is identical in all three, so choose on latency and stock, nothing else.

Region	A100 SXM	L40S
DFW-1Dallas, TX	40	26
IAD-1Ashburn, VA	22	18
PDX-1Hillsboro, OR	16	30

Datacenter specifications and latency

04 Questions

A100 SXM against L40S

Is the A100 SXM better than the L40S?

For anything memory-bound the A100 SXM wins: 80 GB at 2.04 TB/s against 48 GB at 864 GB/s. For work that already fits in 48 GB the L40S is the better buy, because it costs $520 a month against $990 and the job finishes either way.

What is the price difference between the A100 SXM and the L40S?

At GPU Rent Hub the A100 SXM is $990 a month and the L40S is $520, a gap of $470. Weekly terms are $280 and $148. Both prices are flat and include power, cooling, a public IPv4 and 20 TB of outbound traffic.

How much VRAM does the A100 SXM have compared to the L40S?

The A100 SXM has 80 GB of HBM2e and the L40S has 48 GB of GDDR6 ECC. 80 GB of HBM2e under $1,000 a month, the value pick for multi-week runs.

Can I rent either card without KYC?

Yes. Both are rented on the same terms: an account is a username and a password, payment is Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Monero, Solana or Litecoin, and no identity document is requested or stored at any point.

Which one is available today?

Stock moves. As of 2026-09-01 there were 78 A100 SXM and 74 L40S cards free across DFW-1, IAD-1 and PDX-1. The per-region table above comes from the same inventory the dashboard deploys against.

Can I put several A100 SXM cards in one machine?

Yes. Multi-GPU configurations sit on a single node with NVLink · 600 GB/s between the cards, and ordering two, four or eight takes 5%, 8% or 10% off the per-card price.

Rent either one by the week or the month

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