B300 vs RTX 3060: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the B300 when 288 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 3060 when 12 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM; the RTX 3060 has 12 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. B300 from $9.89/GPU/hr; RTX 3060 from $0.110/GPU/hr. The RTX 3060 is 99% cheaper at the entry rate.
B300
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
RTX 3060
Good for inference and small-scale training workloads
Last updated: 2026-10-10 22:00:57 UTCRefreshes hourly
Specs side by side
| Spec | B300 | RTX 3060 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 288 GB | 12 GB |
| Architecture | Blackwell Ultra | Ampere |
| Compute capability | 10.3 | 8.6 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4 |
| Form factor | – | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Regions | 1 | 2 |
On-demand price
| Rate | B300 | RTX 3060 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $9.89/GPU/hr | $0.231/GPU/hr |
Which is better for AI: B300 or RTX 3060?
Choose the B300 when 288 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 3060 when 12 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
B300 vs RTX 3060: common questions
Is the B300 or the RTX 3060 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the B300 when 288 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the RTX 3060 when 12 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the B300 or the RTX 3060 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the B300 starts at $9.89/GPU/hr (median $9.89/GPU/hr) and the RTX 3060 starts at $0.110/GPU/hr (median $0.231/GPU/hr). The RTX 3060 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 99%.
What is the difference between the B300 and the RTX 3060?
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM against the RTX 3060's 12 GB; the B300 is a Blackwell Ultra part and the RTX 3060 is Ampere (compute capability 10.3 vs 8.6); only the B300 supports FP8 compute. On price, the B300 lists from $9.89/GPU/hr and the RTX 3060 from $0.110/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the B300 and the RTX 3060?
The B300 is listed in 1 region and the RTX 3060 in 2 regions right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the B300 vs the RTX 3060?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $9,889 on the B300 and $110 on the RTX 3060, a difference of $9,779 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the B300 have compared to the RTX 3060?
The B300 has 288 GB of VRAM; the RTX 3060 has 12 GB.
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation, not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
Memory bandwidth, tensor TFLOPS, NVLink/interconnect and max board power are the same verified-from-datasheet figures shown on each model's own B300 page and RTX 3060 page, which link the primary vendor source for that model. A dash here means Aquanode hasn't verified that figure from a primary source yet, never a guess.
Go further
Check what fits in each card's memory with the B300 VRAM calculator and the RTX 3060 VRAM calculator, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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