A data center GPU against a consumer card, one Pascal and one Ampere: 24 GB GDDR5 against 8 GB GDDR6 and 29% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 3060 Ti.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 346 GB/s
- From
- --
- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /GPU/hr
- 4 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | P40 | RTX 3060 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | -- | $0.08 | |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.03 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.25 | |
| Median | -- | $0.09 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
P40 vs RTX 3060 Ti price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | P40 | RTX 3060 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR5 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 3x more on P40 |
| Bandwidth | 346 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 1.3x higher on RTX 3060 Ti |
| Bus width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 1.5x wider on P40 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 32.4 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 47 TOPS | 129.6 TOPS | 2.8x higher on RTX 3060 Ti |
| FP32 | 12 TFLOPS | 16.2 TFLOPS | 1.3x higher on RTX 3060 Ti |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 250 W | 200 W | 1.2x higher on P40 |
| Released | Q3 2016 | Q4 2020 | 4 years newer on RTX 3060 Ti |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16FP32INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: P40 datasheet and RTX 3060 Ti datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | P40 /GPU/hr | RTX 3060 Ti /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.08 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | Spot $0.0437 |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.25 |
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Our data for Nvidia P40 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.