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H20 vs L20
Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed hourly. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.
CHEAPEST H20
$1.010/hr
PPIO · median $1.29 · 3 providers
CHEAPEST L20
$0.575/hr
AutoDL · median $2.56 · 3 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
L20
live panel, 2026-09-27
| H20 | L20 | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Hopper | Ada Lovelace |
| LAUNCHED | 2024 | 2024 |
| MEMORY | 96 GB HBM3 | 48 GB GDDR6 ECC |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 4.0 TB/s | 864 GB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 148 TFLOPS FP16/BF16 tensor (296 TFLOPS FP8, 44 TFLOPS FP32) | Ada Lovelace datacenter card, third-gen Tensor Cores (export-compliant compute tier) |
| POWER DRAW | 400 W | 300 W |
| INTERCONNECT | SXM5 (HGX H20, NVLink) | PCIe 4.0 x16, FHFL dual-slot, passive |
HOW TO CHOOSE
L20 vs H20
The two China-market compliance cards split by architecture: the L20 gives you Ada with 48 GB, the H20 gives you Hopper with 96 GB HBM3 and 4.0 TB/s. Memory-hungry serving says H20; budget mid-tier inference says L20.
Workload fit
H20: large-model inference, memory-bound hpc and analytics, llm training. L20: llm inference, vision and media ai, training.
H20 VS L20 - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, H20 or L20?
By today's published on-demand rates: H20 starts at $1.010/GPU/hr (median $1.29, 3 providers) and L20 starts at $0.575/GPU/hr (median $2.56, 3 providers). The cheapest live listing is the L20 at AutoDL. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
H20 or L20 - which should I rent?
H20: The H20 is the China-market Hopper: full 96 GB of HBM3 and 4.0 TB/s of memory bandwidth, but tensor compute capped at 148 TFLOPS of FP16 - a fraction of the H100's. L20: The L20 is the China-market companion to the H20: a 48 GB Ada datacenter card with the L40S's memory system (48 GB, 864 GB/s) but export-compliant compute, sold only in China, Hong Kong, and Macau. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent H20 and L20?
3 providers publish H20 rates and 3 publish L20 rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
Full pricing: H20 · L20 · all comparisons