WHAT THIS CARD IS WORTH
L40 48GB holds 345 of the models in our catalogue and is, in practice, a IQ4_XS card — the largest it takes is DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B at IQ4_XS.
TOKENS/SEC PER $100
1.5
8B at Q4_K_M, so cards compare like for like
VRAM PER $100
0.87 GB
what memory costs on this card
THE BIGGEST IT TAKES
AGAINST CARDS OF SIMILAR MEMORY
L40 48GB48 GB$5,5001.5 tok/s per $100
Neighbours in memory rather than in price: memory decides whether a card can do the job at all, so two cards of the same size at different prices is the comparison you are making. Ordered by memory, then bandwidth — not by the value column, which is worked out from bandwidth and price alone and therefore rewards a cheap card whatever its software stack does to that bandwidth in practice. Read it as one input, not as a ranking.
▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST
NVIDIA L40 48GB — 48 GB VRAM.
▸ L40 48GB SPEC
- BRAND
- NVIDIA
- VRAM
- 48 GB GDDR6
- BANDWIDTH
- 864 GB/s
- FP16 COMPUTE
- 181 TFLOPS
- FP32 COMPUTE
- 90.5 TFLOPS
- CUDA CORES
- 18,176
- TENSOR CORES
- 568
- TDP
- 300 W
- ARCHITECTURE
- Ada Lovelace
- MSRP
- $5500
▸ AI CAPABILITY
345/ 449 models @ Q4
With 48 GB VRAM and 864 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 65.2B parameters.
Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~99 tok/s.
RENT IT — LIVE PRICES
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§ 01TOP MODELS FOR L40 48GB
345 FIT · SHOWING 20| MODEL | SIZE | VRAM Q4 | TOK/S | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLaMA 1 65B | 65.2B | 40.3 GB | 11 | 42.6 |
| Jamba 2 Mini | 52B | 32.3 GB | 58 | 9.2 |
| Jamba 1.5 Mini 52B | 51.6B | 32.0 GB | 58 | 24.2 |
| Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B | 48B | 29.8 GB | 230 | 26.6 |
| Nemotron-H 47B | 47B | 29.2 GB | 15 | 84.6 |
| Mixtral-8x7B | 46.7B | 29.0 GB | 53 | 18.8 |
| Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO | 46.7B | 29.0 GB | 53 | 27.4 |
| Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B | 46.7B | 29.0 GB | 53 | 23.8 |
| Phi-3.5 MoE 42B | 41.9B | 26.1 GB | 105 | 56.7 |
| Falcon 40B | 40B | 24.9 GB | 17 | 20.9 |
| InternVL3 38B | 38B | 23.7 GB | 18 | 78.9 |
| Seed-OSS 36B Instruct | 36B | 22.5 GB | 19 | 54.4 |
| c4ai-command-r-v01 35B | 35B | 21.9 GB | 20 | 27.5 |
| Qwen 3.5 35B A3B | 35B | 21.9 GB | 230 | 53.3 |
| Qwen 3.6 35B A3B | 35B | 21.9 GB | 230 | 53.9 |
| Nous Capybara 34B | 34.4B | 21.5 GB | 20 | 42.0 |
| Yi-1.5 34B | 34.4B | 21.5 GB | 20 | 45.3 |
| Falcon-H1 34B | 34B | 21.3 GB | 20 | 66.1 |
| CodeLlama 34B | 34B | 21.3 GB | 20 | 25.4 |
| Nous Hermes 2 34B | 34B | 21.3 GB | 20 | 47.0 |