Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia P40

Budget legacy GPU when VRAM matters more than speed.

Budget Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX 3050

Entry-level Ampere GPU for basic CUDA development.

Budget Consumer

Memory per GPU

3x more on P40
Nvidia logo P40
24 GB GDDR5
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
8 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

1.5x higher on P40
Nvidia logo P40
346 GB/s
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
224 GB/s

GPU interconnect

Nvidia logo P40
PCIe only
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
PCIe only

Precision support

Nvidia logo P40
FP16 FP32 INT8
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

Nvidia logo P40
Pascal
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
Ampere

Released

5 years newer on RTX 3050
Nvidia logo P40
Q3 2016
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
Q1 2022

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

2x higher on P40
Nvidia logo P40
$0.11 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
$0.05 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.4x higher on P40
Nvidia logo P40
$0.11 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
$0.08 / GPU / hr

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

Spot floor

1.1x higher on RTX 3050
Nvidia logo P40
$0.07 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
$0.07 / GPU / hr

Full price range

Nvidia logo P40
$0.07 - $0.11 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
$0.05 - $0.10 / GPU / hr

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

Providers listing it

1 more on RTX 3050
Nvidia logo P40
1
Nvidia logo RTX 3050
2

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 P40 logo P40 Offers

1 of 1 providers report available stock.

Nvidia RTX 3050 logo RTX 3050 Offers

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

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Our data for Nvidia P40 was last updated on Aug. 21, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3050 on Aug. 21, 2026.