A workstation GPU against a consumer card on the Ampere architecture: 12 GB GDDR6 against 8 GB GDDR6 and 56% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 3070.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 288 GB/s
- From
- $0.05 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX A2000 | RTX 3070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.05 | $0.08 | 31% cheaper on RTX A2000 |
| Spot | $0.03 | $0.04 | 24% cheaper on RTX A2000 |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.11 | |
| Median | $0.07 | $0.11 | 37% cheaper on RTX A2000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX A2000 vs RTX 3070 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX A2000 | RTX 3070 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 12 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 1.5x more on RTX A2000 |
| Bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 1.6x higher on RTX 3070 |
| Bus width | 192-bit | 256-bit | 1.3x wider on RTX 3070 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 31.9 TFLOPS | 40.6 TFLOPS | 1.3x higher on RTX 3070 |
| INT8 | 162.6 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 8 TFLOPS | 20.3 TFLOPS | 2.5x higher on RTX 3070 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 70 W | 220 W | 3.1x higher on RTX 3070 |
| Released | Q3 2021 | Q4 2020 | 9 months newer on RTX A2000 |
| 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 3070 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX A2000 /GPU/hr | RTX 3070 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.05 | On-Demand $0.08 |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.12 | On-Demand $0.13 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX A2000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3070 on Sept. 7, 2026.