H200 vs RTX 3060: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the H200 when 141 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 H200 has 141 GB of VRAM; the RTX 3060 has 12 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H200 from $3.95/GPU/hr; RTX 3060 from $0.110/GPU/hr. The RTX 3060 is 97% cheaper at the entry rate.
H200
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
RTX 3060
Good for inference and small-scale training workloads
Last updated: 2026-10-10 20:22:34 UTCRefreshes hourly
Specs side by side
| Spec | H200 | RTX 3060 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 141 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 4.8 TB/s | – |
| Architecture | Hopper | Ampere |
| Compute capability | 9.0 | 8.6 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | 989 TFLOPS | – |
| Peak FP8 tensor TFLOPS | 1,979 TFLOPS | – |
| NVLink / multi-GPU interconnect | NVLink 4, 900 GB/s bidirectional | – |
| Max board power (TDP) | Up to 700W (configurable) | – |
| Form factor | SXM | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Regions | 3 | 1 |
On-demand price
| Rate | H200 | RTX 3060 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $4.17/GPU/hr | $0.231/GPU/hr |
Which is better for AI: H200 or RTX 3060?
Choose the H200 when 141 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.
H200 vs RTX 3060: common questions
Is the H200 or the RTX 3060 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the H200 when 141 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 H200 or the RTX 3060 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the H200 starts at $3.95/GPU/hr (median $5.82/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 97%.
What is the difference between the H200 and the RTX 3060?
The H200 has 141 GB of VRAM against the RTX 3060's 12 GB; the H200 is a Hopper part and the RTX 3060 is Ampere (compute capability 9.0 vs 8.6); only the H200 supports FP8 compute. On price, the H200 lists from $3.95/GPU/hr and the RTX 3060 from $0.110/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the H200 and the RTX 3060?
The H200 is listed in 3 regions and the RTX 3060 in 1 region right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H200 vs the RTX 3060?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $3,949 on the H200 and $110 on the RTX 3060, a difference of $3,839 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the H200 have compared to the RTX 3060?
The H200 has 141 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 H200 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 H200 VRAM calculator and the RTX 3060 VRAM calculator, see vendor-published throughput in the GPU benchmarks and specs table, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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Related reading: H200 pricing and specs, NVIDIA H200 guide, H100 vs H200, H200 vs B200 vs GB200, and H100 and H200: SXM vs NVL vs PCIe.
