Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia RTX 3070

The RTX A6000 has 6x the memory and 71% more bandwidth. The RTX 3070 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

6x more on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 48 GB

RTX 3070: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

71% higher on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

RTX 3070: 448 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

83% cheaper on RTX 3070

RTX A6000: $0.40 /GPU/hr

RTX 3070: $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 3070	Difference
On-demand	$0.75 /GPU/hr from $0.40	$0.11 /GPU/hr from $0.07	86% cheaper on RTX 3070
Reserved	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (6 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11 (12 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.33	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04

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 reserved and spot on the RTX 3070: 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 3070 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	RTX 3070	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	6x more on RTX A6000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	448 GB/s	71% higher on RTX A6000
Bus width	384-bit	256-bit	50% wider on RTX A6000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS	40.6 TFLOPS	3.8x higher on RTX A6000
INT8	309.7 TOPS	162.6 TOPS	90% higher on RTX A6000
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	20.3 TFLOPS	91% higher on RTX A6000
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX A6000 only
Board power	300 W	220 W	36% 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 3070 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	RTX A6000	RTX 3070
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Oblivus USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.85 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lambda Labs USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.20 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Salad Distributed	--	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand