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RTX 3050 vs RTX 4070

Nvidia RTX 3050 vs Nvidia RTX 4070

Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR6 against 12 GB GDDR6X and 2.2x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 4070.

At a glance

Updated 9 minutes ago

Nvidia RTX 3050

Memory: 8 GB; GDDR6
Memory bandwidth: 224 GB/s
From: $0.07 /GPU/hr; 1 provider

Nvidia RTX 4070

Memory: 12 GB; GDDR6X
Memory bandwidth: 504 GB/s
From: $0.17 /GPU/hr; 2 providers

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3050	RTX 4070	Difference
On-demand	$0.07	$0.17	2.4x more expensive on RTX 4070
Spot	$0.03	$0.07	2.3x more expensive on RTX 4070
Median	$0.07	$0.21	3.1x more expensive on RTX 4070

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

Price history

RTX 3050 vs RTX 4070 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3050	RTX 4070	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR6X	1.5x more on RTX 4070
Bandwidth	224 GB/s	504 GB/s	2.2x higher on RTX 4070
Bus width	128-bit	192-bit	1.5x wider on RTX 4070
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	116.6 TFLOPS	RTX 4070 only
FP16 / BF16	18.2 TFLOPS	58.3 TFLOPS	3.2x higher on RTX 4070
INT8	72.8 TOPS	233.2 TOPS	3.2x higher on RTX 4070
FP32	9.1 TFLOPS	29.1 TFLOPS	3.2x higher on RTX 4070
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	130 W	200 W	1.5x higher on RTX 4070
Released	Q1 2022	Q2 2023	14 months newer on RTX 4070
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: RTX 3050 datasheet and RTX 4070 datasheet.

Where to rent them

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

Provider	RTX 3050 /GPU/hr	RTX 4070 /GPU/hr
Salad	On-Demand $0.07	On-Demand $0.22
Theta EdgeCloud	--	On-Demand $0.17

NVIDIA H200 from $2.20/hr, B200 from $3.40/hr, B300 from $3.80/hr

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8 GB GDDR6 · 21% more bandwidth than the RTX 3050

From $0.08 /GPU/hr Compare
Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti

8 GB GDDR6 · 2x the bandwidth of the RTX 3050

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Nvidia RTX 5070

12 GB GDDR7 · 33% more bandwidth than the RTX 4070

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Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti

16 GB GDDR6 · 43% less bandwidth than the RTX 4070

From $0.22 /GPU/hr Compare

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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3050 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4070 on Sept. 7, 2026.