Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia RTX 3060

The A30 has 2x the memory and 2.6x the bandwidth. The RTX 3060 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on A30

A30: 24 GB

RTX 3060: 12 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.6x higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

RTX 3060: 360 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

86% cheaper on RTX 3060

A30: $0.41 /GPU/hr

RTX 3060: $0.06 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A30	RTX 3060
On-demand	$0.69 /GPU/hr from $0.41	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06
Reserved	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06 (1 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	-- /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 spot on the A30 and on-demand, 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

A30 vs RTX 3060 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	RTX 3060	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	12 GB GDDR6	2x more on A30
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	360 GB/s	2.6x higher on A30
Bus width		192-bit
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS	25.5 TFLOPS	6.5x higher on A30
INT8	330 TOPS	101.9 TOPS	3.2x higher on A30
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	12.7 TFLOPS	23% higher on RTX 3060
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	165 W	170 W	Within 5%
Released	Q2 2021	Q1 2021
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	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: A30 datasheet and RTX 3060 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	A30	RTX 3060
Jarvislabs India	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leafcloud Netherlands	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leaseweb Netherlands	$0.45 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
AceCloud India	$0.67 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	--	$0.06 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	--	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand