Nvidia RTX 3060 vs Nvidia T4

The T4 has 33% more memory, while the RTX 3060 is newer and has 20% more bandwidth. The RTX 3060 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

33% more on T4

RTX 3060: 12 GB

T4: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

20% higher on RTX 3060

RTX 3060: 360 GB/s

T4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

50% cheaper on RTX 3060

RTX 3060: $0.05 /GPU/hr

T4: $0.10 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	RTX 3060	T4
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.05	$0.64 /GPU/hr from $0.10
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.06 (3 mo)	$0.43 /GPU/hr from $0.20 (36 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03	$0.26 /GPU/hr from $0.06

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: 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 T4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	RTX 3060	T4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	12 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6	33% more on T4
Bandwidth	360 GB/s	300 GB/s	20% higher on RTX 3060
Bus width	192-bit	256-bit	33% wider on T4
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	25.5 TFLOPS	65 TFLOPS	2.5x higher on T4
INT8	101.9 TOPS	130 TOPS	28% higher on T4
FP32	12.7 TFLOPS	8.1 TFLOPS	57% higher on RTX 3060
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	170 W	70 W	2.4x higher on RTX 3060
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 T4 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	T4
Vast.ai USA	$0.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Zenlayer USA	--	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hugging Face USA	--	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand
Google Cloud USA	--	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand
AWS USA	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand
Azure USA	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand
Cerebrium USA	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand