A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Blackwell and one Ampere: 180 GB HBM3e against 12 GB GDDR6, 21x the memory bandwidth on the B200, and NVLink 1,800 GB/s on the B200 where the RTX 3060 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 180 GB
- HBM3e
- Memory bandwidth
- 7.70 TB/s
- From
- $3.75 /GPU/hr
- 35 providers
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.05 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | B200 | RTX 3060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $3.75 | $0.05 | 75x more expensive on B200 |
| Spot | $3.12 | $0.03 | 104x more expensive on B200 |
| Reserved | $3.75 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $6.39 | $0.07 | 97x more expensive on B200 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
B200 vs RTX 3060 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | B200 | RTX 3060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 180 GB HBM3e | 12 GB GDDR6 | 15x more on B200 |
| Bandwidth | 7,700 GB/s | 360 GB/s | 21x higher on B200 |
| Bus width | 192-bit | ||
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | 9,000 TFLOPS | Not supported | B200 only |
| FP8 | 4,500 TFLOPS | Not supported | B200 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 2,250 TFLOPS | 25.5 TFLOPS | 88x higher on B200 |
| INT8 | 4,500 TOPS | 101.9 TOPS | 44x higher on B200 |
| FP32 | 75 TFLOPS | 12.7 TFLOPS | 5.9x higher on B200 |
| FP64 | 37 TFLOPS | Not supported | B200 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 1,800 GB/s | PCIe only | NVLink on B200 only |
| Board power | 1,000 W | 170 W | 5.9x higher on B200 |
| Released | Q1 2024 | Q1 2021 | 3 years newer on B200 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: B200 datasheet and RTX 3060 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | B200 /GPU/hr | RTX 3060 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Packet·ai
|
On-Demand $3.75 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $5.40 | -- |
Lium
|
On-Demand $5.50 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $6.88 | -- |
Spheron
|
On-Demand $7.20 | -- |
Oblivus
|
On-Demand $8.40 | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
On-Demand $9.00 | -- |
Verda
|
Spot $3.12 | -- |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.0499 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.08 |
35 providers list the B200 and 2 the RTX 3060. Every listing is on the B200 page and the RTX 3060 page.
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Our data for Nvidia B200 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 on Sept. 7, 2026.