Nvidia RTX A2000 vs Nvidia RTX 3060

Both have 12 GB of memory. The RTX 3060 has 25% more bandwidth and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

RTX A2000: 12 GB

RTX 3060: 12 GB

Memory bandwidth

25% higher on RTX 3060

RTX A2000: 288 GB/s

RTX 3060: 360 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

51% cheaper on RTX 3060

RTX A2000: $0.11 /GPU/hr

RTX 3060: $0.05 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A2000	RTX 3060
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11	$0.08 /GPU/hr from $0.05
Reserved	No reserved listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07 (1 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	-- /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 on-demand and spot on the RTX A2000 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

RTX A2000 vs RTX 3060 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A2000	RTX 3060	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	288 GB/s	360 GB/s	25% higher on RTX 3060
Bus width	192-bit	192-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	31.9 TFLOPS	25.5 TFLOPS	25% higher on RTX A2000
INT8		101.9 TOPS
FP32	8 TFLOPS	12.7 TFLOPS	59% higher on RTX 3060
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	70 W	170 W	2.4x higher on RTX 3060
Released	Q3 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: RTX A2000 datasheet and RTX 3060 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	RTX A2000	RTX 3060
Vast.ai USA	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.05 /GPU/hr On-demand
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand