Best Cloud GPUs for Video Workloads — May 2026
GPUs with hardware video encode/decode + sufficient VRAM for high-res streams.
A16 vs L40S vs L40 — top picks from this guide
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A16
Ampere · 64 GB
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L40S
Ada Lovelace · 48 GB
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L40
Ada Lovelace · 48 GB
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| Specifications | |||
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace |
| VRAM | 64 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 800 GB/s | 864 GB/s | 864 GB/s |
| FP16 (Tensor) | 72 TFLOPS | 366 TFLOPS | 181 TFLOPS |
| FP32 | 18 TFLOPS | 91.6 TFLOPS | 90.5 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 250 W | 350 W | 300 W |
| Release Year | 2021 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Segment | Data center | Data center | Data center |
| Cloud Pricing | |||
| Cheapest On-Demand | $0.47/hr | $0.55/hr | — |
| Providers | 2 | 7 | 0 |
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