[D] L40S vs A100 vs A40 for AI/ML research

I'm a graduate student and my advisor is looking to buy new GPU machines for our research. Our research is standard computer vision research but now we are getting into vision-language riding the latest LLM wave. I wanted to know what should we buy within a fixed budget.

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