B200 vs L40: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the B200 when 180 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the L40 when 48 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The B200 has 180 GB of VRAM; the L40 has 48 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. B200 from $9.35/GPU/hr; L40 from $0.850/GPU/hr. The L40 is 91% cheaper at the entry rate.
B200
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
L40
Good for fine-tuning mid-size models and high-throughput inference
Last updated: 2026-11-03 UTCRefreshes every 6 hours
Specs side by side
| Spec | B200 | L40 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 180 GB | 48 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 8 TB/s | 864 GB/s |
| Architecture | Blackwell | Ada Lovelace |
| Compute capability | 10.0 | 8.9 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | 2,250 TFLOPS | 181.05 TFLOPS |
| Peak FP8 tensor TFLOPS | 4,500 TFLOPS | 362 TFLOPS |
| NVLink / multi-GPU interconnect | NVLink 5, 1.8 TB/s per GPU | – |
| Max board power (TDP) | Up to 1,000W | 300W |
| Form factor | SXM | – |
| Regions | 1 | 2 |
On-demand price
| Rate | B200 | L40 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $9.35/GPU/hr | $0.850/GPU/hr |
Which is better for AI: B200 or L40?
Choose the B200 when 180 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the L40 when 48 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
B200 vs L40: common questions
Is the B200 or the L40 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the B200 when 180 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the L40 when 48 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the B200 or the L40 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the B200 starts at $9.35/GPU/hr (median $9.35/GPU/hr) and the L40 starts at $0.850/GPU/hr (median $1.03/GPU/hr). The L40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 91%.
What is the difference between the B200 and the L40?
The B200 has 180 GB of VRAM against the L40's 48 GB; the B200 is a Blackwell part and the L40 is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 10.0 vs 8.9); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the B200 lists from $9.35/GPU/hr and the L40 from $0.850/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the B200 and the L40?
The B200 is listed in 1 region and the L40 in 2 regions right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the B200 vs the L40?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $9,350 on the B200 and $850 on the L40, a difference of $8,500 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the B200 have compared to the L40?
The B200 has 180 GB of VRAM; the L40 has 48 GB.
Does the B200 or the L40 support NVLink?
The B200 supports NVLink 5, 1.8 TB/s per GPU; the L40 has no dedicated GPU-to-GPU interconnect.
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation, not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
Memory bandwidth, tensor TFLOPS, NVLink/interconnect and max board power are the same verified-from-datasheet figures shown on each model's own B200 page and L40 page, which link the primary vendor source for that model. A dash here means Aquanode hasn't verified that figure from a primary source yet, never a guess.
Go further
Check what fits in each card's memory with the B200 VRAM calculator and the L40 VRAM calculator, see vendor-published throughput in the GPU benchmarks and specs table, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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