Nvidia RTX 3050 vs Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada

The RTX 5000 Ada is newer, with 4x the memory and 2.6x the bandwidth. The RTX 3050 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

4x more on RTX 5000 Ada

RTX 3050: 8 GB

RTX 5000 Ada: 32 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.6x higher on RTX 5000 Ada

RTX 3050: 224 GB/s

RTX 5000 Ada: 576 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

86% cheaper on RTX 3050

RTX 3050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

RTX 5000 Ada: $0.49 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	RTX 3050	RTX 5000 Ada	Difference
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07	-- /GPU/hr from $0.49
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	No spot listings

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for on-demand and spot on the RTX 3050 and on-demand on the RTX 5000 Ada: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

RTX 3050 vs RTX 5000 Ada price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3050	RTX 5000 Ada	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR6	32 GB GDDR6	4x more on RTX 5000 Ada
Bandwidth	224 GB/s	576 GB/s	2.6x higher on RTX 5000 Ada
Bus width	128-bit	256-bit	2x wider on RTX 5000 Ada
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	522.2 TFLOPS	RTX 5000 Ada only
FP16 / BF16	18.2 TFLOPS	261.1 TFLOPS	14x higher on RTX 5000 Ada
INT8	72.8 TOPS
FP32	9.1 TFLOPS	65.3 TFLOPS	7.2x higher on RTX 5000 Ada
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	130 W	250 W	92% higher on RTX 5000 Ada
Released	Q1 2022	Q3 2023	2 years newer on RTX 5000 Ada
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8