A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Maxwell and one Ampere: 8 GB GDDR5 against 12 GB GDDR6 and 2.2x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 3060.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 160 GB/s
- From
- $0.75 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | M60 | RTX 3060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.75 | $0.04 | 19x more expensive on M60 |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.03 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.05 | |
| Median | $1.14 | $0.05 | 21x more expensive on M60 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
M60 vs RTX 3060 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | M60 | RTX 3060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR5 | 12 GB GDDR6 | 1.5x more on RTX 3060 |
| Bandwidth | 160 GB/s | 360 GB/s | 2.2x higher on RTX 3060 |
| Bus width | 256-bit | 192-bit | 1.3x wider on M60 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | Not supported | 25.5 TFLOPS | RTX 3060 only |
| INT8 | Not supported | 101.9 TOPS | RTX 3060 only |
| FP32 | 4.8 TFLOPS | 12.7 TFLOPS | 2.6x higher on RTX 3060 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 150 W | 170 W | 1.1x higher on RTX 3060 |
| Released | Q3 2015 | Q1 2021 | 6 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.
Source: M60 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 | M60 /GPU/hr | RTX 3060 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
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On-Demand $0.75 | -- |
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-- | On-Demand $0.0390 |
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-- | On-Demand $0.0489 |
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-- | On-Demand $0.08 |
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Our data for Nvidia M60 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 on Sept. 7, 2026.