Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Turing and one Ampere: 11 GB GDDR6 against 8 GB GDDR6, 38% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 2080 Ti, and NVLink 100 GB/s on the RTX 2080 Ti where the RTX 3060 Ti is PCIe only.

At a glance

Updated 8 minutes ago
Memory
11 GB
GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
616 GB/s
From
$0.10 /GPU/hr
3 providers
Memory
8 GB
GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
448 GB/s
From
$0.07 /GPU/hr
4 providers

Price comparison

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

Billing RTX 2080 Ti RTX 3060 Ti Difference
On-demand $0.10 $0.07 31% cheaper on RTX 3060 Ti
Spot $0.06 $0.03 2x more expensive on RTX 2080 Ti
Reserved $0.09 $0.25 2.7x more expensive on RTX 3060 Ti
Median $0.11 $0.08 26% cheaper on RTX 3060 Ti

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

Price history

RTX 2080 Ti vs RTX 3060 Ti price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months
Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec RTX 2080 Ti RTX 3060 Ti Difference
Memory
Capacity 11 GB GDDR6 8 GB GDDR6 1.4x more on RTX 2080 Ti
Bandwidth 616 GB/s 448 GB/s 1.4x higher on RTX 2080 Ti
Bus width 352-bit 256-bit 1.4x wider on RTX 2080 Ti
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16 53.8 TFLOPS 32.4 TFLOPS 1.7x higher on RTX 2080 Ti
INT8 215.2 TOPS 129.6 TOPS 1.7x higher on RTX 2080 Ti
FP32 13.4 TFLOPS 16.2 TFLOPS 1.2x higher on RTX 3060 Ti
Platform
Interconnect NVLink 100 GB/s PCIe only NVLink on RTX 2080 Ti only
Board power 250 W 200 W 1.2x higher on RTX 2080 Ti
Released Q3 2018 Q4 2020 2 years newer on RTX 3060 Ti
Precision
Supported formats FP16FP32INT4INT8 FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX 2080 Ti 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 RTX 2080 Ti /GPU/hr RTX 3060 Ti /GPU/hr
Salad logo Salad On-Demand $0.10 On-Demand $0.08
Vast.ai logo Vast.ai Reserved (1mo) $0.09 On-Demand $0.07
Theta EdgeCloud logo Theta EdgeCloud On-Demand $0.12 On-Demand $0.10
Database Mart logo Database Mart -- Reserved (24mo) $0.25

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Our data for Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.