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GeForce RTX 3090 Founders / reference has 50% less memory than L40 48GB (24 GB vs 48 GB). Its memory bandwidth is 8% more (0.936 vs 0.864 TB/s). In the cloud, the median on-demand GeForce RTX 3090 Founders / reference price is $0.16 per GPU-hour against $0.86 for the L40 48GB. Per gigabyte of GPU memory, that is $0.007 vs $0.018 per hour.
Manufacturer figures as recorded by Kovara. Higher memory and bandwidth are highlighted; neither is a benchmark of your workload.
| GeForce RTX 3090 Founders / reference | L40 48GB | |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| Memory | 24 GB GDDR6X | 48 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bandwidth | 0.936 TB/s | 0.864 TB/s |
| Power (TDP) | 350 W | 300 W |
| Form factor | PCIe consumer | PCIe dual-slot FHFL |
Public offers Kovara tracks, normalised to US dollars per GPU-hour. Prices use on-demand terms where available; spot and reserved offers are on each GPU’s price pages. Lower is highlighted.
| GeForce RTX 3090 Founders / reference | L40 48GB | |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest price | $0.090 | $0.79 |
| Median price | $0.16 | $0.86 |
| Highest price | $0.50 | $1.25 |
| Median per GB of memory | $0.007 | $0.018 |
| Public offers (all terms) | 7 | 13 |
| Providers | 3 | 5 |
Lowest tracked price per provider. Open a provider to see every offer, region and term.
Right now the cheapest on-demand GeForce RTX 3090 Founders / reference Kovara tracks is $0.090 per GPU-hour and the cheapest L40 48GB is $0.79. Medians are $0.16 and $0.86. The cheaper GPU per hour is not always cheaper per job: a faster or larger GPU can finish sooner or need fewer units.
The L40 48GB has more memory: 48 GB against 24 GB. Memory decides which models and batch sizes fit on one GPU.
No. This page compares manufacturer specifications and public prices. Real performance depends on the model, precision, software and interconnect. Kova can help you estimate cost for a specific workload.