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Gaudi2 vs RTX 3060

Intel Gaudi2 vs Nvidia RTX 3060

A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Gaudi (2nd Gen) and one Ampere: 96 GB HBM2e against 12 GB GDDR6, 6.8x the memory bandwidth on the Gaudi2, and RoCE 600 GB/s on the Gaudi2 where the RTX 3060 is PCIe only.

At a glance

Memory

Gaudi2: 96 GB
RTX 3060: 12 GB

8x more on Gaudi2

Memory bandwidth

Gaudi2: 2,450 GB/s
RTX 3060: 360 GB/s

6.8x higher on Gaudi2

Cheapest on-demand

Gaudi2: $1.03 /GPU/hr
RTX 3060: $0.04 /GPU/hr

26x more expensive on Gaudi2

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	Gaudi2	RTX 3060	Difference
On-demand	$1.21 /GPU/hr from $1.03	$0.08 /GPU/hr from $0.04	15x more expensive on Gaudi2
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.58 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.64 (1 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for reserved on the Gaudi2 and reserved and spot on the RTX 3060: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

Gaudi2 vs RTX 3060 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	Gaudi2	RTX 3060	Difference
Memory
Capacity	96 GB HBM2e	12 GB GDDR6	8x more on Gaudi2
Bandwidth	2,450 GB/s	360 GB/s	6.8x higher on Gaudi2
Bus width		192-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	865 TFLOPS	Not supported	Gaudi2 only
FP16 / BF16	432 TFLOPS	25.5 TFLOPS	17x higher on Gaudi2
INT8		101.9 TOPS
FP32		12.7 TFLOPS
Platform
Interconnect	RoCE 600 GB/s	PCIe only	RoCE on Gaudi2 only
Board power	600 W	170 W	3.5x higher on Gaudi2
Released	Q2 2022	Q1 2021	14 months newer on Gaudi2
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: Gaudi2 datasheet and RTX 3060 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	Gaudi2 /GPU/hr	RTX 3060 /GPU/hr
Runcrate	On-Demand $1.21	--
Sesterce	On-Demand $1.21	--
Cyfuture AI	On-Demand $1.03	--
Theta EdgeCloud	--	On-Demand $0.0390
Vast.ai	--	On-Demand $0.05
Salad	--	On-Demand $0.08