Nvidia GT 730 vs Nvidia RTX 3060

Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Kepler and one Ampere: 2 GB DDR3 against 12 GB GDDR6 and 26x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3060.

At a glance

Updated 7 minutes ago

Nvidia GT 730

Nvidia RTX 3060

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing	GT 730	RTX 3060
On-demand	--	$0.05
Spot	No spot listings	$0.03
Reserved	No reserved listings	$0.11
Median	--	$0.07

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

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 16 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Spec	GT 730	RTX 3060	Difference
Memory
Capacity	2 GB DDR3	12 GB GDDR6	6x more on RTX 3060
Bandwidth	14 GB/s	360 GB/s	26x higher on RTX 3060
Bus width	64-bit	192-bit	3x wider on RTX 3060
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	Not supported	25.5 TFLOPS	RTX 3060 only
INT8	Not supported	101.9 TOPS	RTX 3060 only
FP32	0.7 TFLOPS	12.7 TFLOPS	18x higher on RTX 3060
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	23 W	170 W	7.4x higher on RTX 3060
Released	Q2 2014	Q1 2021	7 years newer on RTX 3060
Precision
Supported formats	FP32	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.

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

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Our data for Nvidia GT 730 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 on Sept. 7, 2026.