RTX 3060 vs RTX A6000: 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 A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The RTX 3060 is 84% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 3060 vs RTX A6000: common questions
Is the RTX 3060 or the RTX A6000 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 A6000 starts at $0.500/GPU/hr (median $0.550/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The RTX 3060 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 84%.
What is the difference between the RTX 3060 and the RTX A6000?
The RTX 3060 has 12 GB of VRAM against the RTX A6000's 48 GB; both are Ampere parts; both run BF16, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the RTX 3060 lists from $0.080/GPU/hr and the RTX A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3060 and the RTX A6000?
1 provider list the RTX 3060 (SimplePod) and 3 list the RTX A6000 (Massed Compute, HyperStack and RunPod), across 1 and 3 regions respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 3060 vs the RTX A6000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $80 on the RTX 3060 and $500 on the RTX A6000, a difference of $420 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.
