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Nvidia P5000 vs Nvidia RTX 3050

A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Pascal and one Ampere: 16 GB GDDR5X against 8 GB GDDR6 and 29% more memory bandwidth on the P5000.

At a glance

Updated 27 minutes ago
Nvidia P5000
Memory
16 GB
GDDR5X
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
From
$0.78 /GPU/hr
1 provider
Nvidia RTX 3050
Memory
8 GB
GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
From
$0.07 /GPU/hr
1 provider

Price comparison

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing P5000 RTX 3050 Difference
On-demand $0.78 $0.07 11x more expensive on P5000
Spot No spot listings $0.03
Median $0.78 $0.07 11x more expensive on P5000

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

Price history

P5000 vs RTX 3050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months
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Specs comparison

Spec P5000 RTX 3050 Difference
Memory
Capacity 16 GB GDDR5X 8 GB GDDR6 2x more on P5000
Bandwidth 288 GB/s 224 GB/s 1.3x higher on P5000
Bus width 256-bit 128-bit 2x wider on P5000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16 18.2 TFLOPS
INT8 Not supported 72.8 TOPS RTX 3050 only
FP32 8.9 TFLOPS 9.1 TFLOPS Within 5%
Platform
Interconnect PCIe only PCIe only
Board power 180 W 130 W 1.4x higher on P5000
Released Q4 2016 Q1 2022 5 years newer on RTX 3050
Precision
Supported formats FP16FP32 FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: P5000 datasheet and RTX 3050 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider P5000 /GPU/hr RTX 3050 /GPU/hr
Paperspace logo Paperspace On-Demand $0.78 --
Salad logo Salad -- On-Demand $0.07

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Our data for Nvidia P5000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3050 on Sept. 7, 2026.