Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 8 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB GDDR7 and 2.3x the memory bandwidth on the RTX 5060 Ti.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- From
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 16 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 512 GB/s
- From
- $0.08 /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 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.07 | $0.08 | 9% cheaper on RTX 3050 |
| Spot | $0.03 | $0.07 | 2.2x more expensive on RTX 5060 Ti |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.09 | |
| Median | $0.07 | $0.14 | 2x more expensive on RTX 5060 Ti |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3050 vs RTX 5060 Ti price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3050 | RTX 5060 Ti | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR7 | 2x more on RTX 5060 Ti |
| Bandwidth | 224 GB/s | 512 GB/s | 2.3x higher on RTX 5060 Ti |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 128-bit | Identical |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 379.5 TFLOPS | RTX 5060 Ti only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 94.8 TFLOPS | RTX 5060 Ti only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 18.2 TFLOPS | 47.4 TFLOPS | 2.6x higher on RTX 5060 Ti |
| INT8 | 72.8 TOPS | 189.6 TOPS | 2.6x higher on RTX 5060 Ti |
| FP32 | 9.1 TFLOPS | 23.7 TFLOPS | 2.6x higher on RTX 5060 Ti |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 130 W | 180 W | 1.4x higher on RTX 5060 Ti |
| Released | Q1 2022 | Q2 2025 | 3 years newer on RTX 5060 Ti |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 3050 datasheet and RTX 5060 Ti 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 Ti /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.07 | On-Demand $0.18 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.08 |
Theta EdgeCloud
|
-- | On-Demand $0.10 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3050 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti on Sept. 7, 2026.