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GTX 1060 vs RTX 3060

The RTX 3060 offers 12GB with Ampere Tensor Cores, doubling VRAM and adding AI capabilities.

Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia GTX 1060

Not viable for modern AI workloads.

Budget Consumer

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX 3060

Best budget Ampere option for small model fine-tuning.

Budget Consumer

Memory per GPU

2x more on RTX 3060
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6 GB GDDR5
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12 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

1.9x higher on RTX 3060
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192 GB/s
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360 GB/s

GPU interconnect

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PCIe only
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PCIe only

Precision support

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FP16 FP32
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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Pascal
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Ampere

Released

5 years newer on RTX 3060
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Q3 2016
Nvidia logo RTX 3060
Q1 2021

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

1.1x higher on GTX 1060
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$0.04 / GPU / hr
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$0.04 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

2.5x higher on GTX 1060
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$0.13 / GPU / hr
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$0.05 / GPU / hr

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

Spot floor

1.1x higher on GTX 1060
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$0.03 / GPU / hr
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$0.03 / GPU / hr

Full price range

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$0.03 - $0.34 / GPU / hr
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$0.03 - $0.09 / GPU / hr

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

Providers listing it

1 more on RTX 3060
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2
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3

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.

Nvidia GTX 1060 logo GTX 1060 Offers

1 of 1 providers report available stock, 1 more publish no status.

Nvidia RTX 3060 logo RTX 3060 Offers

2 of 2 providers report available stock, 1 more publish no status.

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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1060 was last updated on Aug. 21, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 on Aug. 21, 2026.