A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Ampere and one Volta: 8 GB GDDR6 against 32 GB HBM2, 5.1x the memory bandwidth on the V100S, and NVLink 300 GB/s on the V100S where the RTX 3050 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 24 minutes ago- Memory
- 8 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- From
- $0.07 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
- Memory
- 32 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.13 TB/s
- From
- $0.88 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | RTX 3050 | V100S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.07 | $0.88 | 13x more expensive on V100S |
| Spot | $0.03 | No spot listings | |
| Median | $0.07 | $0.88 | 13x more expensive on V100S |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3050 vs V100S price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3050 | V100S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 8 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB HBM2 | 4x more on V100S |
| Bandwidth | 224 GB/s | 1,134 GB/s | 5.1x higher on V100S |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 4,096-bit | 32x wider on V100S |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 18.2 TFLOPS | 130 TFLOPS | 7.1x higher on V100S |
| INT8 | 72.8 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 9.1 TFLOPS | 16.4 TFLOPS | 1.8x higher on V100S |
| FP64 | Not supported | 8.2 TFLOPS | V100S only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 300 GB/s | NVLink on V100S only |
| Board power | 130 W | 250 W | 1.9x higher on V100S |
| Released | Q1 2022 | Q4 2019 | 2 years newer on RTX 3050 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32FP64INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: RTX 3050 datasheet and V100S 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 | V100S /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.07 | -- |
OVH
|
-- | On-Demand $0.88 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3050 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia V100S on Sept. 7, 2026.