A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR6 against 24 GB GDDR6 and 93% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 4500 Ada.
At a glance
Updated 27 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- From
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 432 GB/s
- From
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Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 3050 | RTX 4500 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.07 | -- | |
| Spot | $0.03 | No spot listings | |
| Median | $0.07 | -- |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3050 vs RTX 4500 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3050 | RTX 4500 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6 | 3x more on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Bandwidth | 224 GB/s | 432 GB/s | 1.9x higher on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 192-bit | 1.5x wider on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 317 TFLOPS | RTX 4500 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 18.2 TFLOPS | 158.5 TFLOPS | 8.7x higher on RTX 4500 Ada |
| INT8 | 72.8 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 9.1 TFLOPS | 39.6 TFLOPS | 4.4x higher on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 130 W | 210 W | 1.6x higher on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Released | Q1 2022 | Q3 2023 | 2 years newer on RTX 4500 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 3050 datasheet and RTX 4500 Ada 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 4500 Ada /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.07 | -- |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3050 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada on Sept. 7, 2026.