A consumer GPU against a data center card, one Ampere and one Volta: 12 GB GDDR6 against 32 GB HBM2, 3.1x the memory bandwidth on the V100S, and NVLink 300 GB/s on the V100S where the RTX 3060 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 12 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- From
- $0.04 /GPU/hr
- 3 providers
- 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 3060 | V100S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.04 | $0.88 | 23x more expensive on V100S |
| Spot | $0.03 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $0.05 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $0.05 | $0.88 | 16x more expensive on V100S |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
RTX 3060 vs V100S price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | RTX 3060 | V100S | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 12 GB GDDR6 | 32 GB HBM2 | 2.7x more on V100S |
| Bandwidth | 360 GB/s | 1,134 GB/s | 3.1x higher on V100S |
| Bus width | 192-bit | 4,096-bit | 21x wider on V100S |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 25.5 TFLOPS | 130 TFLOPS | 5.1x higher on V100S |
| INT8 | 101.9 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 12.7 TFLOPS | 16.4 TFLOPS | 1.3x 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 | 170 W | 250 W | 1.5x higher on V100S |
| Released | Q1 2021 | Q4 2019 | 15 months newer on RTX 3060 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32FP64INT8 | |
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 V100S datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | RTX 3060 /GPU/hr | V100S /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Theta EdgeCloud
|
On-Demand $0.0390 | -- |
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.0489 | -- |
Salad
|
On-Demand $0.08 | -- |
OVH
|
-- | On-Demand $0.88 |
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Our data for Nvidia RTX 3060 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia V100S on Sept. 7, 2026.