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RTX 3050 vs RTX 5060

Nvidia RTX 3050 vs Nvidia RTX 5060

Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 8 GB GDDR6 against 8 GB GDDR7 and 2x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5060.

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 5060

Memory: 8 GB; GDDR7
Memory bandwidth: 448 GB/s
From: $0.14 /GPU/hr; 3 providers

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3050	RTX 5060	Difference
On-demand	$0.07	$0.14	2x more expensive on RTX 5060
Spot	$0.03	$0.07	2.2x more expensive on RTX 5060
Reserved	No reserved listings	$0.12
Median	$0.07	$0.15	2.1x more expensive on RTX 5060

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

Price history

RTX 3050 vs RTX 5060 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3050	RTX 5060	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR7	Identical
Bandwidth	224 GB/s	448 GB/s	2x higher on RTX 5060
Bus width	128-bit	128-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	307 TFLOPS	RTX 5060 only
FP8	Not supported	76.8 TFLOPS	RTX 5060 only
FP16 / BF16	18.2 TFLOPS	38.4 TFLOPS	2.1x higher on RTX 5060
INT8	72.8 TOPS	153.6 TOPS	2.1x higher on RTX 5060
FP32	9.1 TFLOPS	19.2 TFLOPS	2.1x higher on RTX 5060
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	130 W	145 W	1.1x higher on RTX 5060
Released	Q1 2022	Q2 2025	3 years newer on RTX 5060
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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

Source: RTX 3050 datasheet and RTX 5060 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 5060 /GPU/hr
Salad	On-Demand $0.07	On-Demand $0.14
Theta EdgeCloud	--	On-Demand $0.16
Database Mart	--	Reserved (24mo) $0.12

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Hard to find nodes available; B200 and B300 Blackwell nodes listed now.

Consumer + DC grade cards for cheap. H100s from $1/hr, RTX 5090s from $0.35/hr.

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Nvidia RTX 4060

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

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Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti

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

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Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti

16 GB GDDR7 · released Q2 2025

From $0.10 /GPU/hr Compare
Nvidia RTX 5070

12 GB GDDR7 · 50% more bandwidth than the RTX 5060

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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3050 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5060 on Sept. 7, 2026.