A workstation GPU against a consumer card on the Ampere architecture: 20 GB GDDR6 against 12 GB GDDR6 and 78% more memory bandwidth on the A4500.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 20 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 640 GB/s
- From
- --
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.05 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | A4500 | RTX 3060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | -- | $0.05 | |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.03 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.11 | |
| Median | -- | $0.07 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
A4500 vs RTX 3060 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A4500 | RTX 3060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 20 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR6 | 1.7x more on A4500 |
| Bandwidth | 640 GB/s | 360 GB/s | 1.8x higher on A4500 |
| Bus width | 320-bit | 192-bit | 1.7x wider on A4500 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 94.6 TFLOPS | 25.5 TFLOPS | 3.7x higher on A4500 |
| INT8 | 101.9 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 23.7 TFLOPS | 12.7 TFLOPS | 1.9x higher on A4500 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 200 W | 170 W | 1.2x higher on A4500 |
| Released | Q4 2021 | Q1 2021 | 9 months newer on A4500 |
| 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: A4500 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 | A4500 /GPU/hr | RTX 3060 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Runpod
|
Reservation on request | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.0499 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.08 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | Reserved (1mo) $0.11 |
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Our data for Nvidia A4500 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 on Sept. 7, 2026.