RTX 3050 vs GTX 1070
Specifications, today's prices from 7 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.
| RTX 3050 | GTX 1070 | Difference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory & compute | |||
| VRAM | 8 GB | 8 GB | 0% |
| Memory bandwidth | 0.22 TB/s | 0.26 TB/s | -13% |
| FP16 tensor | — | — | — |
| FP32 | 9.11 TFLOPS | 6.46 TFLOPS | +41% |
| Power | 130 W | 150 W | -13% |
| Prices today | |||
| Cheapest on-demand | $0.04 | $0.01 | +205% |
| Median on-demand | $0.11 | $0.05 | +137% |
| Highest on-demand | $0.20 | $0.09 | +124% |
| Cheapest spot | $0.07 | $0.02 | +285% |
| Cheapest reserved | — | — | — |
| Current offers (n) | 5 | 3 | +67% |
| Providers with a fresh offer | 4 | 3 | +33% |
| Value | |||
| Per GB of VRAM · hour (cheapest) | $0.006 | $0.002 | +205% |
| Per GB of VRAM · hour (median) | $0.014 | $0.006 | +137% |
| Per PFLOP FP16 · hour (median) | — | — | — |
| Per TB/s · hour (median) | $0.502 | $0.185 | +171% |
| Trend | |||
| 30-day median change | — | — | — |
| 90-day median change | — | — | — |
Cheapest providers today · on-demand · current offersWho rents each one cheapest
- 1
gcube1× $0.04
- 2
Clore.aiTrust 491× $0.05 - 3
Vast.aiTrust 781× $0.18
- 1
Clore.aiTrust 496× $0.01 - 2
Vast.aiTrust 783× $0.05 - 3
Theta EdgeCloud1× $0.09
Choose one, choose the other
Choose the RTX 3050 if…
- you want choice: 4 providers have a fresh offer today against 3.
Choose the GTX 1070 if…
- the hourly price matters most: median $0.05 against $0.11, 58% less.
- you serve LLMs: memory bandwidth per dollar is better ($0.185 per TB/s-hour against $0.502).
Questions about RTX 3050 vs GTX 1070
Which is cheaper to rent, the RTX 3050 or the GTX 1070?
Today the cheapest current on-demand RTX 3050 is $0.04 per GPU-hour and the cheapest GTX 1070 is $0.01; medians are $0.11 and $0.05. Cheapest excludes offers marked unavailable and counts one floor per marketplace.
How much memory do the RTX 3050 and GTX 1070 have?
8 GB of GDDR6 on the RTX 3050, 8 GB of memory on the GTX 1070, at 0.22 and 0.26 TB/s.
Where do these numbers come from?
From 8 current offers read on the providers' own pages and APIs over the last 45 days (reference 00:18 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.
