A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Pascal and one Ampere: 8 GB GDDR5 against 12 GB GDDR6 and 48% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 3060.

At a glance

Memory

P4000
8 GB
RTX 3060
12 GB

1.5x more on RTX 3060

Memory bandwidth

P4000
243 GB/s
RTX 3060
360 GB/s

1.5x higher on RTX 3060

Cheapest on-demand

P4000
$0.05 /GPU/hr
RTX 3060
$0.05 /GPU/hr

8% cheaper on RTX 3060

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing P4000 RTX 3060 Difference
On-demand -- /GPU/hr from $0.05 -- /GPU/hr from $0.05
Spot No spot listings -- /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 on the P4000 and on-demand and spot on the RTX 3060: 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

P4000 vs RTX 3060 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months
Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec P4000 RTX 3060 Difference
Memory
Capacity 8 GB GDDR5 12 GB GDDR6 1.5x more on RTX 3060
Bandwidth 243 GB/s 360 GB/s 1.5x higher on RTX 3060
Bus width 256-bit 192-bit 1.3x wider on P4000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16 25.5 TFLOPS
INT8 Not supported 101.9 TOPS RTX 3060 only
FP32 5.3 TFLOPS 12.7 TFLOPS 2.4x higher on RTX 3060
Platform
Interconnect PCIe only PCIe only
Board power 105 W 170 W 1.6x higher on RTX 3060
Released Q1 2017 Q1 2021 4 years newer on RTX 3060
Precision
Supported formats FP16FP32 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: P4000 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 P4000 /GPU/hr RTX 3060 /GPU/hr
Vast.ai logo Vast.ai On-Demand $0.05 --
Paperspace logo Paperspace On-Demand $0.51 --
Theta EdgeCloud logo Theta EdgeCloud -- On-Demand $0.0499
Salad logo Salad -- On-Demand $0.08

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Our data for Nvidia P4000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 on Sept. 7, 2026.