Nvidia RTX 3060 vs Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000

The Quadro RTX 6000 has 2x the memory and 87% more bandwidth. The RTX 3060 is newer and cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2x more on Quadro RTX 6000

RTX 3060: 12 GB

Quadro RTX 6000: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

87% higher on Quadro RTX 6000

RTX 3060: 360 GB/s

Quadro RTX 6000: 672 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

62% cheaper on RTX 3060

RTX 3060: $0.05 /GPU/hr

Quadro RTX 6000: $0.13 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3060	Quadro RTX 6000
On-demand	$0.08 /GPU/hr from $0.05	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06 (48 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (12 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	No spot listings

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 on-demand and reserved on the Quadro RTX 6000: 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 Quadro RTX 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3060	Quadro RTX 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	2x more on Quadro RTX 6000
Bandwidth	360 GB/s	672 GB/s	87% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Bus width	192-bit	384-bit	2x wider on Quadro RTX 6000
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	25.5 TFLOPS	130.5 TFLOPS	5.1x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
INT8	101.9 TOPS	261 TOPS	2.6x higher on Quadro RTX 6000
FP32	12.7 TFLOPS	16.3 TFLOPS	28% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 100 GB/s	NVLink on Quadro RTX 6000 only
Board power	170 W	295 W	74% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
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 Quadro RTX 6000 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	Quadro RTX 6000
Vast.ai USA	$0.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lambda Labs USA	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand