RTX 3060 vs RTX 4070: cloud rental cost compared

You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 3060 from $0.080/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX 4070 from $0.080/GPU/hr across 1 provider.

RTX 3060
Good for inference and small-scale training workloads
$0.080/hr
Lowest / GPU
$0.116/hr
Median / GPU
12 GB
VRAM
Ampere
Architecture
RTX 4070
Good for inference and light fine-tuning workloads
$0.080/hr
Lowest / GPU
$0.080/hr
Median / GPU
12 GB
VRAM
Ada Lovelace
Architecture

Specs side by side

Spec
RTX 3060
RTX 4070
VRAM
12 GB
12 GB
Architecture
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Compute capability
8.6
8.9
Precisions in hardware
FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4
FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4
Interconnect
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Lowest $/GPU/hr
$0.080
$0.080
Median $/GPU/hr
$0.116
$0.080
Providers
1
1
Regions
1
1

Price by provider

Provider
RTX 3060 $/GPU/hr
RTX 4070 $/GPU/hr
SimplePod
$0.080
$0.080

RTX 3060 vs RTX 4070: common questions

Is the RTX 3060 or the RTX 4070 cheaper to rent?

On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 3060 starts at $0.080/GPU/hr (median $0.116/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the RTX 4070 starts at $0.080/GPU/hr (median $0.080/GPU/hr across 1 provider). Both models currently start at the same rate.

What is the difference between the RTX 3060 and the RTX 4070?

Both cards report 12 GB of VRAM; the RTX 3060 is an Ampere part and the RTX 4070 is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 8.6 vs 8.9); only the RTX 4070 supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 3060 lists from $0.080/GPU/hr and the RTX 4070 from $0.080/GPU/hr.

Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3060 and the RTX 4070?

1 provider list the RTX 3060 (SimplePod) and 1 list the RTX 4070 (SimplePod), across 1 and 1 region respectively. Both are available from SimplePod.

How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 3060 vs the RTX 4070?

At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $80 on the RTX 3060 and $80 on the RTX 4070, identical spend. 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.

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