A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 8 GB GDDR6 against 32 GB GDDR7 and 4x the memory bandwidth on the RTX PRO 4500.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- From
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 32 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 896 GB/s
- From
- $0.72 /GPU/hr
- 5 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 3050 | RTX PRO 4500 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.07 | $0.72 | 10x more expensive on RTX PRO 4500 |
| Spot | $0.03 | No spot listings | |
| Median | $0.07 | $0.92 | 13x more expensive on RTX PRO 4500 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3050 vs RTX PRO 4500 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3050 | RTX PRO 4500 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB GDDR7 | 4x more on RTX PRO 4500 |
| Bandwidth | 224 GB/s | 896 GB/s | 4x higher on RTX PRO 4500 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 256-bit | 2x wider on RTX PRO 4500 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 808.5 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 4500 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 404.3 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 4500 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 18.2 TFLOPS | 202.1 TFLOPS | 11x higher on RTX PRO 4500 |
| INT8 | 72.8 TOPS | 404.3 TOPS | 5.6x higher on RTX PRO 4500 |
| FP32 | 9.1 TFLOPS | 51 TFLOPS | 5.6x higher on RTX PRO 4500 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 130 W | 200 W | 1.5x higher on RTX PRO 4500 |
| Released | Q1 2022 | Q1 2025 | 3 years newer on RTX PRO 4500 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 3050 datasheet and RTX PRO 4500 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 PRO 4500 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.07 | -- |
GPU.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.72 |
Runpod
|
-- | On-Demand $0.72 |
Massed Compute
|
-- | On-Demand $0.92 |
EmpirioLabs AI
|
-- | On-Demand $1.40 |
AWS
|
-- | On-Demand $2.52 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3050 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX PRO 4500 on Sept. 7, 2026.