Best Cloud GPUs for Video Workloads — May 2026

GPUs with hardware video encode/decode + sufficient VRAM for high-res streams.

Updated May 2026 Showing 6 GPU models Best for video

A16 vs L40S vs L40 — top picks from this guide

A16 vs L40S vs L40
A16
Ampere · 64 GB
L40S
Ada Lovelace · 48 GB
L40
Ada Lovelace · 48 GB
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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