RTX 3060 vs T4: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 3060 from $0.080/GPU/hr across 1 provider; T4 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The RTX 3060 is 49% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 3060 vs T4: common questions
Is the RTX 3060 or the T4 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 T4 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.158/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The RTX 3060 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 49%.
What is the difference between the RTX 3060 and the T4?
The RTX 3060 has 12 GB of VRAM against the T4's 16 GB; the RTX 3060 is an Ampere part and the T4 is Turing (compute capability 8.6 vs 7.5); only the RTX 3060 supports BF16 compute. On price, the RTX 3060 lists from $0.080/GPU/hr and the T4 from $0.158/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3060 and the T4?
1 provider list the RTX 3060 (SimplePod) and 1 list the T4 (Akash), 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 T4?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $80 on the RTX 3060 and $158 on the T4, a difference of $78 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.
