Nvidia RTX A6000 vs Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti

The RTX A6000 has 2x the memory, while the RTX 3090 Ti is newer and has 31% more bandwidth. The RTX 3090 Ti is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on RTX A6000

RTX A6000: 48 GB

RTX 3090 Ti: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

31% higher on RTX 3090 Ti

RTX A6000: 768 GB/s

RTX 3090 Ti: 1,008 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

53% cheaper on RTX 3090 Ti

RTX A6000: $0.40 /GPU/hr

RTX 3090 Ti: $0.19 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX A6000	RTX 3090 Ti	Difference
On-demand	$0.58 /GPU/hr from $0.40	$0.27 /GPU/hr from $0.19	54% cheaper on RTX 3090 Ti
Reserved	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.26 (6 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.22 (6 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.15	-- /GPU/hr from $0.10

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 3090 Ti: 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 3090 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX A6000	RTX 3090 Ti	Difference
Memory
Capacity	48 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6X	2x more on RTX A6000
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	1,008 GB/s	31% higher on RTX 3090 Ti
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	154.8 TFLOPS	80 TFLOPS	94% higher on RTX A6000
INT8	309.7 TOPS	320 TOPS	Within 5%
FP32	38.7 TFLOPS	40 TFLOPS	Within 5%
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on RTX A6000 only
Board power	300 W	450 W	50% higher on RTX 3090 Ti
Released	Q4 2020	Q1 2022	2 years newer on RTX 3090 Ti
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX A6000 datasheet and RTX 3090 Ti 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 3090 Ti
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Spheron Singapore	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
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	--	$0.19 /GPU/hr On-demand