Nvidia RTX 3060 vs Nvidia RTX PRO 4500

The RTX PRO 4500 is newer, with 2.7x the memory and 2.5x the bandwidth. The RTX 3060 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

2.7x more on RTX PRO 4500

RTX 3060: 12 GB

RTX PRO 4500: 32 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.5x higher on RTX PRO 4500

RTX 3060: 360 GB/s

RTX PRO 4500: 896 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

84% cheaper on RTX 3060

RTX 3060: $0.06 /GPU/hr

RTX PRO 4500: $0.35 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3060	RTX PRO 4500
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06	$0.82 /GPU/hr from $0.35
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06 (1 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.33 (1 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	-- /GPU/hr from $0.24

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 on-demand, reserved and spot on the RTX 3060 and reserved and spot on the RTX PRO 4500: 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 PRO 4500 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3060	RTX PRO 4500	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR6	32 GB GDDR7	2.7x more on RTX PRO 4500
Bandwidth	360 GB/s	896 GB/s	2.5x higher on RTX PRO 4500
Bus width	192-bit	256-bit	33% 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	25.5 TFLOPS	202.1 TFLOPS	7.9x higher on RTX PRO 4500
INT8	101.9 TOPS	404.3 TOPS	4x higher on RTX PRO 4500
FP32	12.7 TFLOPS	51 TFLOPS	4x higher on RTX PRO 4500
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	170 W	200 W	18% higher on RTX PRO 4500
Released	Q1 2021	Q1 2025	4 years newer on RTX PRO 4500
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8

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 PRO 4500 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 PRO 4500
Vast.ai USA	$0.06 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.72 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	--	$0.92 /GPU/hr On-demand
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$1.40 /GPU/hr On-demand
AWS USA	--	$2.52 /GPU/hr On-demand