A workstation GPU against a consumer card on the Ampere architecture: 48 GB GDDR6 against 8 GB GDDR6, 71% more memory bandwidth on the RTX A6000, and NVLink 112 GB/s on the RTX A6000 where the RTX 3060 Ti is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.35 /GPU/hr
- 21 providers
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.06 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX A6000 | RTX 3060 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.35 | $0.06 | 5.5x more expensive on RTX A6000 |
| Spot | $0.32 | $0.03 | 11x more expensive on RTX A6000 |
| Reserved | $0.35 | $0.07 | 5.1x more expensive on RTX A6000 |
| Median | $0.56 | $0.09 | 6.1x more expensive on RTX A6000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX A6000 vs RTX 3060 Ti price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX A6000 | RTX 3060 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 6x more on RTX A6000 |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 1.7x higher on RTX A6000 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX A6000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 154.8 TFLOPS | 32.4 TFLOPS | 4.8x higher on RTX A6000 |
| INT8 | 309.7 TOPS | 129.6 TOPS | 2.4x higher on RTX A6000 |
| FP32 | 38.7 TFLOPS | 16.2 TFLOPS | 2.4x higher on RTX A6000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on RTX A6000 only |
| Board power | 300 W | 200 W | 1.5x higher on RTX A6000 |
| Released | Q4 2020 | Q4 2020 | |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and RTX 3060 Ti datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX A6000 /GPU/hr | RTX 3060 Ti /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.40 | On-Demand $0.06 |
Thunder Compute
|
On-Demand $0.35 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.41 | -- |
Lium
|
On-Demand $0.42 | -- |
Spheron
|
On-Demand $0.54 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.57 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.63 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.63 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.08 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.25 |
21 providers list the RTX A6000 and 4 the RTX 3060 Ti. Every listing is on the RTX A6000 page and the RTX 3060 Ti page.
Similar GPUs
Other comparisons in the same class.
Our data for Nvidia RTX A6000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.