A consumer GPU against a workstation card, one Ampere and one Blackwell: 8 GB GDDR6 against 96 GB GDDR7 and 7.1x the memory bandwidth on the RTX PRO 6000.
At a glance
Updated 5 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- From
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 96 GB
- GDDR7
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.60 TB/s
- From
- $0.66 /GPU/hr
- 45 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 3050 | RTX PRO 6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.07 | $0.66 | 9.4x more expensive on RTX PRO 6000 |
| Spot | $0.03 | $0.21 | 6.9x more expensive on RTX PRO 6000 |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.48 | |
| Median | $0.07 | $2.20 | 31x more expensive on RTX PRO 6000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3050 vs RTX PRO 6000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3050 | RTX PRO 6000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR6 | 96 GB GDDR7 | 12x more on RTX PRO 6000 |
| Bandwidth | 224 GB/s | 1,597 GB/s | 7.1x higher on RTX PRO 6000 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 512-bit | 4x wider on RTX PRO 6000 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP4 | Not supported | 2,000 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 6000 only |
| FP8 | Not supported | 1,000 TFLOPS | RTX PRO 6000 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 18.2 TFLOPS | 500 TFLOPS | 27x higher on RTX PRO 6000 |
| INT8 | 72.8 TOPS | 1,000 TOPS | 14x higher on RTX PRO 6000 |
| FP32 | 9.1 TFLOPS | 120 TFLOPS | 13x higher on RTX PRO 6000 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Board power | 130 W | 600 W | 4.6x higher on RTX PRO 6000 |
| Released | Q1 2022 | Q1 2025 | 3 years newer on RTX PRO 6000 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 3050 datasheet and RTX PRO 6000 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 6000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.07 | -- |
Packet·ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.66 |
HyperAI
|
-- | On-Demand $0.80 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $1.10 |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $1.10 |
Lium
|
-- | On-Demand $1.20 |
EcoHash
|
-- | On-Demand $1.89 |
Verda
|
-- | On-Demand $1.89 |
Cloudzy
|
-- | On-Demand $1.93 |
1 provider list the RTX 3050 and 45 the RTX PRO 6000. Every listing is on the RTX 3050 page and the RTX PRO 6000 page.
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3050 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 on Sept. 7, 2026.