A workstation GPU against a consumer card on the Ampere architecture: 48 GB GDDR6 against 24 GB GDDR6X and 22% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 3090.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 48 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.35 /GPU/hr
- 18 providers
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6X
- Memory bandwidth
- 936 GB/s
- From
- $0.10 /GPU/hr
- 8 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX A6000 | RTX 3090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.35 | $0.10 | 3.5x more expensive on RTX A6000 |
| Spot | $0.40 | $0.09 | 4.4x more expensive on RTX A6000 |
| Reserved | $0.35 | $0.06 | 5.8x more expensive on RTX A6000 |
| Median | $0.56 | $0.31 | 45% cheaper on RTX 3090 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX A6000 vs RTX 3090 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX A6000 | RTX 3090 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 48 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 2x more on RTX A6000 |
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 936 GB/s | 1.2x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 384-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 154.8 TFLOPS | 71.2 TFLOPS | 2.2x higher on RTX A6000 |
| INT8 | 309.7 TOPS | 284.7 TOPS | 1.1x higher on RTX A6000 |
| FP32 | 38.7 TFLOPS | 35.6 TFLOPS | 1.1x higher on RTX A6000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 112 GB/s | NVLink 112 GB/s | Identical |
| Board power | 300 W | 350 W | 1.2x higher on RTX 3090 |
| Released | Q4 2020 | Q3 2020 | |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and RTX 3090 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 3090 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.45 | On-Demand $0.22 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $0.90 | On-Demand $0.40 |
Thunder Compute
|
On-Demand $0.35 | -- |
Massed Compute
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Oblivus
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $0.55 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $0.63 | -- |
Koyeb
|
On-Demand $0.75 | -- |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.13 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.25 |
SwissGPU
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
TensorDock
|
-- | On-Demand $0.31 |
Runpod
|
-- | Reservation on request |
18 providers list the RTX A6000 and 8 the RTX 3090. Every listing is on the RTX A6000 page and the RTX 3090 page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX A6000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3090 on Sept. 7, 2026.