Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX A6000

Professional workstation GPU for AI development and CAD.

Mid-Range Workstation

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX 3090

Popular legacy consumer GPU for local AI development with NVLink.

Mid-Range Consumer

Memory per GPU

2x more on RTX A6000
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48 GB GDDR6
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
24 GB GDDR6X

Memory bandwidth

1.2x higher on RTX 3090
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768 GB/s
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
936 GB/s

GPU interconnect

Identical
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NVLink 112 GB/s
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
NVLink 112 GB/s

Peak performance (FP16)

1.1x higher on RTX A6000
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310 TFLOPS
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
284 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures. Sparsity and tensor-core conventions differ between vendors.

Precision support

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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Ampere
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Ampere

Released

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Q4 2020
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
Q3 2020

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

3.9x higher on RTX A6000
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$0.35 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
$0.09 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

4.3x higher on RTX A6000
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$0.56 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
$0.13 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

4.5x higher on RTX A6000
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$0.30 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
$0.07 / GPU / hr

Full price range

Nvidia logo RTX A6000
$0.30 - $2.12 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
$0.06 - $0.50 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

9 more on RTX A6000
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17
Nvidia logo RTX 3090
8

Price, last 90 days

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−4%
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Too volatile to report

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market. Withheld where too few providers price the card, its history is too short, or its weekly print swings too hard to read as a trend.

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia RTX A6000 was last updated on Aug. 21, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3090 on Aug. 21, 2026.