RTX 3060 vs RTX 6000 Ada: 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 6000 Ada from $0.790/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The RTX 3060 is 90% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 3060 vs RTX 6000 Ada: common questions
Is the RTX 3060 or the RTX 6000 Ada 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 6000 Ada starts at $0.790/GPU/hr (median $0.790/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The RTX 3060 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 90%.
What is the difference between the RTX 3060 and the RTX 6000 Ada?
The RTX 3060 has 12 GB of VRAM against the RTX 6000 Ada's 48 GB; the RTX 3060 is an Ampere part and the RTX 6000 Ada is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 8.6 vs 8.9); only the RTX 6000 Ada supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 3060 lists from $0.080/GPU/hr and the RTX 6000 Ada from $0.790/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3060 and the RTX 6000 Ada?
1 provider list the RTX 3060 (SimplePod) and 1 list the RTX 6000 Ada (Massed Compute), across 1 and 1 region respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 3060 vs the RTX 6000 Ada?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $80 on the RTX 3060 and $790 on the RTX 6000 Ada, a difference of $710 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.
