CMP 170HX vs RTX 3070
Specifications, today's prices from 12 providers, price per unit of memory and compute, and who rents each cheapest. Better values are highlighted; lower is better for prices.
Specs, prices, value
Highlighted cells are the better of the two: more memory and compute, lower prices, lower cost per unit.
| CMP 170HX | RTX 3070 | Difference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory & compute | |||
| VRAM | 8 GB | 8 GB | 0% |
| Memory bandwidth | — | 0.45 TB/s | — |
| FP16 tensor | — | — | — |
| FP32 | — | 20.31 TFLOPS | — |
| Power | 250 W | 220 W | +14% |
| Prices today | |||
| Cheapest on-demand | $0.24 | $0.06 | +302% |
| Median on-demand | $0.43 | $0.08 | +451% |
| Highest on-demand | $0.87 | $0.13 | +565% |
| Cheapest spot | $0.17 | $0.04 | +325% |
| Cheapest reserved | $0.47 | — | — |
| Current offers (n) | 12 | 7 | +71% |
| Providers with a fresh offer | 6 | 6 | 0% |
| Value | |||
| Per GB of VRAM · hour (cheapest) | $0.030 | $0.007 | +302% |
| Per GB of VRAM · hour (median) | $0.054 | $0.010 | +451% |
| Per PFLOP FP16 · hour (median) | — | — | — |
| Per TB/s · hour (median) | — | $0.176 | — |
| Trend | |||
| 30-day median change | +12.5% | +27.3% | — |
| 90-day median change | +12.5% | +27.3% | — |
How the two have moved
Both medians indexed to 100 ninety days ago, so the slopes compare even though the price levels differ.
Cheapest providers today · on-demand · current offersWho rents each one cheapest
- 1
Vast.aiTrust 782× $0.24 - 2
Clore.aiTrust 499× $0.28 - 3
LiumTrust 402× $0.30
- 1
gcube1× $0.06
- 2
Clore.aiTrust 498× $0.06 - 3
Theta EdgeCloud1× $0.08
Choose one, choose the other
Choose the CMP 170HX if…
- No metric above favours it today.
Choose the RTX 3070 if…
- the hourly price matters most: median $0.08 against $0.43, 82% less.
Questions about CMP 170HX vs RTX 3070
Which is cheaper to rent, the CMP 170HX or the RTX 3070?
Today the cheapest current on-demand CMP 170HX is $0.24 per GPU-hour and the cheapest RTX 3070 is $0.06; medians are $0.43 and $0.08. Cheapest excludes offers marked unavailable and counts one floor per marketplace.
How much memory do the CMP 170HX and RTX 3070 have?
8 GB of memory on the CMP 170HX, 8 GB of GDDR6 on the RTX 3070.
Where do these numbers come from?
From 19 current offers read on the providers' own pages and APIs over the last 45 days (reference 00:32 UTC), or in our October 2026 market study for the few providers our collector does not read. Specifications come from manufacturer datasheets. Every price on the GPU pages links to its receipt and shows its read date.
