B300 vs P40: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the B300 when 288 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the P40 when 24 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM; the P40 has 24 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. B300 from $9.89/GPU/hr; P40 from $0.173/GPU/hr. The P40 is 98% cheaper at the entry rate.
B300
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
P40
Good for inference workloads on older-generation hardware
Last updated: 2026-10-10 17:50:01 UTCRefreshes hourly
Specs side by side
| Spec | B300 | P40 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 288 GB | 24 GB |
| Architecture | Blackwell Ultra | Pascal |
| Compute capability | 10.3 | 6.1 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16 |
| Form factor | SXM6 | PCIe |
| Regions | 2 | 1 |
On-demand price
| Rate | B300 | P40 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $9.89/GPU/hr | $0.173/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: B300 or P40?
Choose the B300 when 288 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the P40 when 24 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
B300 vs P40: common questions
Is the B300 or the P40 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the B300 when 288 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the P40 when 24 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the B300 or the P40 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the B300 starts at $9.89/GPU/hr (median $9.89/GPU/hr) and the P40 starts at $0.173/GPU/hr (median $0.173/GPU/hr). The P40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 98%.
What is the difference between the B300 and the P40?
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM against the P40's 24 GB; the B300 is a Blackwell Ultra part and the P40 is Pascal (compute capability 10.3 vs 6.1); only the B300 supports BF16, FP8, INT4 compute. On price, the B300 lists from $9.89/GPU/hr and the P40 from $0.173/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the B300 and the P40?
The B300 is listed in 2 regions and the P40 in 1 region right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the B300 vs the P40?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $9,889 on the B300 and $173 on the P40, a difference of $9,716 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the B300 have compared to the P40?
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM; the P40 has 24 GB.
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 B300 page and P40 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 B300 VRAM calculator and the P40 VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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