Rent NVIDIA A40 GPU in India
Launch an NVIDIA A40 cloud GPU with 48GB GDDR6 memory for AI inference, model fine-tuning, rendering, visualization, and CUDA development. Lumino provides per-second INR billing, SSH access, browser terminal access, and public Docker image support.
Availability: A40 is part of the Lumino rental catalog; check current stock or create an Auto-rent request in the marketplace.
Check live NVIDIA A40 availability or create an Auto-rent request
NVIDIA A40 rental price and specifications
| Lumino hourly price | Check current marketplace pricing |
|---|---|
| GPU memory | 48GB GDDR6 |
| Architecture | NVIDIA Ampere |
| Memory bandwidth | 696 GB/s |
| FP16 tensor performance | Up to 149.7 TFLOPS |
| Billing | INR credits with running compute accounted per second |
| Access | SSH, browser terminal, and Docker image support |
What is an A40 48GB GPU good for?
The A40 combines 48GB of VRAM with Ampere Tensor Cores and RT Cores. It is a practical middle ground when a 24GB GeForce card is too small but H100-class training hardware would be unnecessary for the job.
- LLM inference: serve quantized models with vLLM, TGI, or a custom PyTorch stack. A 70B model at 4-bit precision may fit by weight size, while usable context and concurrency still depend on KV cache and runtime overhead.
- Fine-tuning: run LoRA or QLoRA experiments where 48GB VRAM gives more room for batch size, sequence length, and optimizer state than a 24GB GPU.
- Generative media: use ComfyUI, FLUX, SDXL, video pipelines, upscalers, and batch image workflows.
- Rendering and visualization: use the A40 for Blender, ray tracing, CAD, virtual workstations, and mixed graphics-plus-AI workloads.
A40 vs L40S, A100, and RTX 4090
| GPU | VRAM | Choose it when |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA A40 | 48GB GDDR6 | You need 48GB VRAM for inference, fine-tuning, rendering, or a virtual workstation at a practical hourly cost. |
| NVIDIA L40S | 48GB GDDR6 | You want a newer Ada-generation GPU for faster inference and media workloads while keeping 48GB VRAM. |
| NVIDIA A100 | 40GB or 80GB HBM2e | You need higher memory bandwidth and datacenter training or scientific-compute performance. |
| RTX 4090 | 24GB GDDR6X | Your workload fits inside 24GB and raw price-performance matters more than datacenter or virtual-workstation features. |
How to rent an NVIDIA A40 on Lumino
- Open the filtered A40 marketplace result and confirm current stock and hourly price.
- Sign in, add INR credits, and select storage plus a public Docker image for your workload.
- Start the rental and connect over SSH or the browser terminal after provisioning.
- Stop or terminate the pod when the job is complete; check storage charges before leaving a stopped pod reserved.
NVIDIA A40 rental FAQ
Can I rent an NVIDIA A40 GPU in India on Lumino AI?
Yes. Lumino maintains an explicit A40 listing with 48GB GDDR6 memory. A40 is part of the Lumino rental catalog; check current stock or create an Auto-rent request in the marketplace.
Can an A40 run a 70B LLM?
A quantized 70B model can fit by weight size on a 48GB A40, but actual context length, batching, KV cache, framework overhead, and quantization format determine whether the complete workload fits.
Does the rental include SSH and Docker?
Yes. Lumino supports SSH, a browser terminal, and public Docker images for supported CUDA workloads.
Is the A40 always in stock?
No cloud marketplace can guarantee that a specific GPU stays available. Use the live filtered marketplace link on this page to verify stock and current price before starting a rental.