A data center GPU against a consumer card on the Ampere architecture: 24 GB GDDR6 against 12 GB GDDR6 and 67% more memory bandwidth on the A10.
At a glance
Updated 8 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 600 GB/s
- From
- $1.00 /GPU/hr
- 8 providers
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.05 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A10 | RTX 3060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $1.00 | $0.05 | 20x more expensive on A10 |
| Spot | $0.60 | $0.03 | 20x more expensive on A10 |
| Reserved | $0.71 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.42 | $0.07 | 22x more expensive on A10 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A10 vs RTX 3060 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A10 | RTX 3060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR6 | 2x more on A10 |
| Bandwidth | 600 GB/s | 360 GB/s | 1.7x higher on A10 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 192-bit | 2x wider on A10 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 125 TFLOPS | 25.5 TFLOPS | 4.9x higher on A10 |
| INT8 | 250 TOPS | 101.9 TOPS | 2.5x higher on A10 |
| FP32 | 31.2 TFLOPS | 12.7 TFLOPS | 2.5x higher on A10 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 150 W | 170 W | 1.1x higher on RTX 3060 |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2021 | |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | 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: A10 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 | A10 /GPU/hr | RTX 3060 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Lambda Labs
|
On-Demand $1.29 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.42 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $1.42 | -- |
OVH
|
On-Demand $1.00 | -- |
Cerebrium
|
On-Demand $1.10 | -- |
Alibaba Cloud
|
On-Demand $1.27 | -- |
Oracle Cloud
|
On-Demand $2.00 | -- |
Azure
|
On-Demand $3.20 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.0499 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.08 |
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Our data for Nvidia A10 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 on Sept. 7, 2026.