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RTX 3060 vs Titan Xp
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 3060
$0.020/hr
QuickPod · median $0.08 · 7 providers
CHEAPEST TITAN XP
$0.048/hr
Vast.ai · median $0.06 · 1 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
RTX 3060
live panel, 2026-09-27
| RTX 3060 | TITAN XP | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Ampere | Pascal |
| LAUNCHED | 2021 | 2017 |
| MEMORY | 12 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR5X |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 360 GB/s | 548 GB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 12.7 TFLOPS FP32; 3rd-gen tensor cores | 12.1 TFLOPS FP32; no tensor cores |
| POWER DRAW | 170 W | 250 W |
| INTERCONNECT | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
HOW TO CHOOSE
Titan Xp vs RTX 3060
Same 12 GB, three generations newer, with tensor cores, usually at similar rates. The 3060 wins for any current use.
Workload fit
RTX 3060: budget 13b experimentation, 7b serving, fine-tuning. Titan Xp: legacy deep-learning code, small experiments, modern inference.
RTX 3060 VS TITAN XP - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, RTX 3060 or Titan Xp?
By today's published on-demand rates: RTX 3060 starts at $0.020/GPU/hr (median $0.08, 7 providers) and Titan Xp starts at $0.048/GPU/hr (median $0.06, 1 providers). The cheapest live listing is the RTX 3060 at QuickPod. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
RTX 3060 or Titan Xp - which should I rent?
RTX 3060: The 3060's modest specs hide its real distinction: 12 GB of memory at the bottom of the price table. Titan Xp: The Titan Xp was 2017's prosumer flagship - the card a generation of early deep-learning papers was trained on. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent RTX 3060 and Titan Xp?
7 providers publish RTX 3060 rates and 1 publish Titan Xp 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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