RTX 3060 vs RTX 4080 Super: 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 4080 Super from $0.280/GPU/hr across 2 providers. The RTX 3060 is 71% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 3060 vs RTX 4080 Super: common questions
Is the RTX 3060 or the RTX 4080 Super 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 4080 Super starts at $0.280/GPU/hr (median $0.330/GPU/hr across 2 providers). The RTX 3060 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 71%.
What is the difference between the RTX 3060 and the RTX 4080 Super?
The RTX 3060 has 12 GB of VRAM against the RTX 4080 Super's 16 GB; the RTX 3060 is an Ampere part and the RTX 4080 Super is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 8.6 vs 8.9); only the RTX 4080 Super supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 3060 lists from $0.080/GPU/hr and the RTX 4080 Super from $0.280/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3060 and the RTX 4080 Super?
1 provider list the RTX 3060 (SimplePod) and 2 list the RTX 4080 Super (RunPod and SimplePod), across 1 and 2 regions respectively. Both are available from SimplePod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 3060 vs the RTX 4080 Super?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $80 on the RTX 3060 and $280 on the RTX 4080 Super, a difference of $200 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.
