Nvidia P6000 vs Nvidia RTX 3060

A workstation GPU against a consumer card, one Pascal and one Ampere: 24 GB GDDR5X against 12 GB GDDR6 and 20% more memory bandwidth on the P6000.

At a glance

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Nvidia P6000

Nvidia RTX 3060

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

Billing	P6000	RTX 3060	Difference
On-demand	$1.10	$0.05	22x more expensive on P6000
Spot	No spot listings	$0.03
Median	$1.10	$0.07	17x more expensive on P6000

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

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Spec	P6000	RTX 3060	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR5X	12 GB GDDR6	2x more on P6000
Bandwidth	432 GB/s	360 GB/s	1.2x higher on P6000
Bus width	384-bit	192-bit	2x wider on P6000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16		25.5 TFLOPS
INT8	Not supported	101.9 TOPS	RTX 3060 only
FP32	12.6 TFLOPS	12.7 TFLOPS	Within 5%
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	250 W	170 W	1.5x higher on P6000
Released	Q4 2016	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.

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

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Our data for Nvidia P6000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 on Sept. 7, 2026.