Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia RTX 3050

The RTX A6000 has 6x the memory and 3.4x the bandwidth. The RTX 3050 is newer and cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 48 GB

RTX 3050: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.4x higher on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

RTX 3050: 224 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

80% cheaper on RTX 3050

RTX A6000: $0.35 /GPU/hr

RTX 3050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A6000	RTX 3050
On-demand	$0.56 /GPU/hr from $0.35	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07
Reserved	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (6 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13	-- /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 RTX A6000 and on-demand and spot on the RTX 3050: 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 A6000 vs RTX 3050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	RTX 3050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	6x more on RTX A6000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	224 GB/s	3.4x higher on RTX A6000
Bus width	384-bit	128-bit	3x wider on RTX A6000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS	18.2 TFLOPS	8.5x higher on RTX A6000
INT8	309.7 TOPS	72.8 TOPS	4.3x higher on RTX A6000
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	9.1 TFLOPS	4.3x higher on RTX A6000
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX A6000 only
Board power	300 W	130 W	2.3x higher on RTX A6000
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2022	16 months newer on RTX 3050
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and RTX 3050 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	RTX A6000	RTX 3050
Thunder Compute USA	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Spheron Singapore	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Runpod USA	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Oblivus USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Sesterce France	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand