L40S vs RTX 5880 Ada: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the RTX 5880 Ada when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the L40S when L40S pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
Both the L40S and the RTX 5880 Ada ship with 48 GB of VRAM.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L40S from $0.726/GPU/hr; RTX 5880 Ada from $0.646/GPU/hr. The RTX 5880 Ada is 11% cheaper at the entry rate.
L40S
Good for fine-tuning mid-size models and high-throughput inference
RTX 5880 Ada
Good for fine-tuning mid-size models and high-throughput inference
Last updated: 2026-10-10 22:02:06 UTCRefreshes hourly
Specs side by side
| Spec | L40S | RTX 5880 Ada |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 48 GB | 48 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 864 GB/s | – |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace |
| Compute capability | 8.9 | 8.9 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | 362 TFLOPS | – |
| Peak FP8 tensor TFLOPS | 733 TFLOPS | – |
| Max board power (TDP) | 350W | – |
| Form factor | PCIe | – |
| Regions | 5 | 1 |
On-demand price
| Rate | L40S | RTX 5880 Ada |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $1.07/GPU/hr | $0.646/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: L40S or RTX 5880 Ada?
Choose the RTX 5880 Ada when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the L40S when L40S pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
L40S vs RTX 5880 Ada: common questions
Is the L40S or the RTX 5880 Ada better for AI?
Short answer: choose the RTX 5880 Ada when you want the lower hourly rate and the specs are otherwise a wash. Choose the L40S when L40S pricing or availability works better where you're deploying.
Is the L40S or the RTX 5880 Ada cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the L40S starts at $0.726/GPU/hr (median $1.20/GPU/hr) and the RTX 5880 Ada starts at $0.646/GPU/hr (median $0.750/GPU/hr). The RTX 5880 Ada is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 11%.
What is the difference between the L40S and the RTX 5880 Ada?
Both cards report 48 GB of VRAM; both are Ada Lovelace parts; both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the L40S lists from $0.726/GPU/hr and the RTX 5880 Ada from $0.646/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the L40S and the RTX 5880 Ada?
The L40S is listed in 5 regions and the RTX 5880 Ada in 1 region right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L40S vs the RTX 5880 Ada?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $726 on the L40S and $646 on the RTX 5880 Ada, a difference of $80 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the L40S have compared to the RTX 5880 Ada?
Both the L40S and the RTX 5880 Ada ship with 48 GB of VRAM.
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 L40S page and RTX 5880 Ada 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 L40S VRAM calculator and the RTX 5880 Ada 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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