Nvidia RTX 3060 vs Nvidia RTX 5000

The RTX 5000 has 33% more memory and 24% more bandwidth. The RTX 3060 is newer and typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

33% more on RTX 5000

RTX 3060: 12 GB

RTX 5000: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

24% higher on RTX 5000

RTX 3060: 360 GB/s

RTX 5000: 448 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

37% cheaper on RTX 3060

RTX 3060: $0.05 /GPU/hr

RTX 5000: $0.08 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	RTX 3060	RTX 5000	Difference
On-demand	$0.08 /GPU/hr from $0.05	$0.60 /GPU/hr from $0.08	87% cheaper on RTX 3060
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07 (1 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	-- /GPU/hr from $0.05

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for reserved and spot on the RTX 3060 and spot on the RTX 5000: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

RTX 3060 vs RTX 5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3060	RTX 5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6	33% more on RTX 5000
Bandwidth	360 GB/s	448 GB/s	24% higher on RTX 5000
Bus width	192-bit	256-bit	33% wider on RTX 5000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	25.5 TFLOPS	89.2 TFLOPS	3.5x higher on RTX 5000
INT8	101.9 TOPS	178.4 TOPS	75% higher on RTX 5000
FP32	12.7 TFLOPS	11.2 TFLOPS	13% higher on RTX 3060
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 50 GB/s	NVLink on RTX 5000 only
Board power	170 W	265 W	56% higher on RTX 5000
Released	Q1 2021	Q3 2018	2 years newer on RTX 3060
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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 3060 datasheet and RTX 5000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	RTX 3060	RTX 5000
Vast.ai USA	$0.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
OVH France	--	$0.60 /GPU/hr On-demand
Paperspace USA	--	$0.82 /GPU/hr On-demand