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RTX 3050 vs RTX 3060

Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed hourly. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.

CHEAPEST RTX 3050
$0.030/hr
Salad · median $0.03 · 1 providers
CHEAPEST RTX 3060
$0.020/hr
QuickPod · median $0.08 · 7 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
RTX 3060
live panel, 2026-09-27
RTX 3050RTX 3060
MAKERNVIDIANVIDIA
ARCHITECTUREAmpereAmpere
LAUNCHED20222021
MEMORY8 GB GDDR612 GB GDDR6
MEMORY BANDWIDTH224 GB/s360 GB/s
TENSOR COMPUTE9.1 TFLOPS FP32; 3rd-gen tensor cores12.7 TFLOPS FP32; 3rd-gen tensor cores
POWER DRAW130 W170 W
INTERCONNECTPCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16

HOW TO CHOOSE

RTX 3050 vs RTX 3060
The 3060's 12 GB and 360 GB/s open real workloads for a modest premium. The 3050 is for learning, the 3060 for doing.
Workload fit
RTX 3050: learning and dev, 7b inference, serving or training. RTX 3060: budget 13b experimentation, 7b serving, fine-tuning.

RTX 3050 VS RTX 3060 - FAQ

Which is cheaper to rent, RTX 3050 or RTX 3060?
By today's published on-demand rates: RTX 3050 starts at $0.030/GPU/hr (median $0.03, 1 providers) and RTX 3060 starts at $0.020/GPU/hr (median $0.08, 7 providers). The cheapest live listing is the RTX 3060 at QuickPod. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
RTX 3050 or RTX 3060 - which should I rent?
RTX 3050: The 3050 is the cheapest Ampere card with tensor cores - the minimum hardware for modern ML frameworks' fast paths. RTX 3060: The 3060's modest specs hide its real distinction: 12 GB of memory at the bottom of the price table. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent RTX 3050 and RTX 3060?
1 providers publish RTX 3050 rates and 7 publish RTX 3060 rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.

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