The H100 has 10x the memory and 15x the bandwidth. The RTX 3050 is cheaper right now.
At a glance
Memory
10x more on H100
- H100
- 80 GB
- RTX 3050
- 8 GB
Memory bandwidth
15x higher on H100
- H100
- 3,350 GB/s
- RTX 3050
- 224 GB/s
Cheapest on-demand
95% cheaper on RTX 3050
- H100
- $1.30 /GPU/hr
- RTX 3050
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
Price comparison
Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.
| Billing | H100 | RTX 3050 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $3.39 /GPU/hr from $1.30 | -- /GPU/hr from $0.07 | |
| Reserved | $3.14 /GPU/hr from $1.53 (1 mo) | No reserved listings | |
| Spot | $2.00 /GPU/hr from $0.39 | -- /GPU/hr from $0.03 |
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 on-demand and spot on the RTX 3050: 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
H100 vs RTX 3050 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | H100 | RTX 3050 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 80 GB HBM3 94 GB on NVL | 8 GB GDDR6 | 10x more on H100 |
| Bandwidth | 3,350 GB/s 2,000 GB/s on PCIe 3,938 GB/s on NVL | 224 GB/s | 15x higher on H100 |
| Bus width | 5,120-bit | 128-bit | 40x wider on H100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 1,979 TFLOPS | Not supported | H100 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 989.5 TFLOPS | 18.2 TFLOPS | 54x higher on H100 |
| INT8 | 1,979 TOPS | 72.8 TOPS | 27x higher on H100 |
| FP32 | 67 TFLOPS | 9.1 TFLOPS | 7.4x higher on H100 |
| FP64 | 34 TFLOPS | Not supported | H100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | NVLink 900 GB/s NVLink 600 GB/s on PCIe, NVL | PCIe only | NVLink on H100 only |
| Board power | 700 W | 130 W | 5.4x higher on H100 |
| Released | Q3 2022 | Q1 2022 | 8 months newer on H100 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | 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: H100 datasheet and RTX 3050 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.
| Provider | H100 | RTX 3050 |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
USA
|
$1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM | $0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Lium
Distributed
|
$1.30 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM | -- |
HyperAI
Hong Kong
|
$1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
GPU.ai
UAE
|
$1.98 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe | -- |
Hyperstack
UK
|
$2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe | -- |
EmpirioLabs AI
USA
|
$2.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Jarvislabs
India
|
$2.69 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM | -- |
Massed Compute
USA
|
$2.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Salad
Distributed
|
-- | $0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand |
57 providers list the H100 and 2 the RTX 3050. Every listing is on the H100 page and the RTX 3050 page.
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Nvidia RTX 5090
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Nvidia RTX 3060
12 GB GDDR6 · 61% more bandwidth than the RTX 3050
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Nvidia RTX 4060
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Our data for Nvidia H100 was last updated on Sept. 14, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3050 on Sept. 14, 2026.