DGX A100 vs RTX 3060: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. DGX A100 from $1.38/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX 3060 from $0.080/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The RTX 3060 is 94% cheaper at the entry rate.
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DGX A100 vs RTX 3060: common questions
Is the DGX A100 or the RTX 3060 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the DGX A100 starts at $1.38/GPU/hr (median $1.38/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the RTX 3060 starts at $0.080/GPU/hr (median $0.116/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The RTX 3060 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 94%.
What is the difference between the DGX A100 and the RTX 3060?
The DGX A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX 3060's 12 GB; both are Ampere parts; both run BF16, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the DGX A100 lists from $1.38/GPU/hr and the RTX 3060 from $0.080/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the DGX A100 and the RTX 3060?
1 provider list the DGX A100 (Massed Compute) and 1 list the RTX 3060 (SimplePod), across 1 and 1 region respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the DGX A100 vs the RTX 3060?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $1,380 on the DGX A100 and $80 on the RTX 3060, a difference of $1,300 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
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.
