L40S vs RTX 3060: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L40S from $0.880/GPU/hr across 2 providers; RTX 3060 from $0.080/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The RTX 3060 is 91% cheaper at the entry rate.
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L40S vs RTX 3060: common questions
Is the L40S or the RTX 3060 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the L40S starts at $0.880/GPU/hr (median $0.935/GPU/hr across 2 providers) 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 91%.
What is the difference between the L40S and the RTX 3060?
The L40S has 48 GB of VRAM against the RTX 3060's 12 GB; the L40S is an Ada Lovelace part and the RTX 3060 is Ampere (compute capability 8.9 vs 8.6); only the L40S supports FP8 compute. On price, the L40S lists from $0.880/GPU/hr and the RTX 3060 from $0.080/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L40S and the RTX 3060?
2 providers list the L40S (Massed Compute and RunPod) and 1 list the RTX 3060 (SimplePod), across 2 and 1 region respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L40S vs the RTX 3060?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $880 on the L40S and $80 on the RTX 3060, a difference of $800 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.
