Comparison · GPU vs GPU · read 00:18 UTCRTX 3050 vs RTX 4060
Specifications, today's prices from 8 providers, price per unit of memory and compute, and who rents each cheapest. Better values are highlighted; lower is better for prices.
Side by sideSpecs, prices, value
Highlighted cells are the better of the two: more memory and compute, lower prices, lower cost per unit.
| RTX 3050 | RTX 4060 | Difference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory & compute | |||
| VRAM | 8 GB | 8 GB | 0% |
| Memory bandwidth | 0.22 TB/s | 0.27 TB/s | -18% |
| FP16 tensor | — | — | — |
| FP32 | 9.11 TFLOPS | 15.1 TFLOPS | -40% |
| Power | 130 W | 115 W | +13% |
| Prices today | |||
| Cheapest on-demand | $0.04 | $0.06 | -30% |
| Median on-demand | $0.11 | $0.09 | +29% |
| Highest on-demand | $0.20 | $0.22 | -9% |
| Cheapest spot | $0.07 | $0.04 | +74% |
| Cheapest reserved | — | $0.20 | — |
| Current offers (n) | 5 | 5 | 0% |
| Providers with a fresh offer | 4 | 4 | 0% |
| Value | |||
| Per GB of VRAM · hour (cheapest) | $0.006 | $0.008 | -30% |
| Per GB of VRAM · hour (median) | $0.014 | $0.011 | +29% |
| Per PFLOP FP16 · hour (median) | — | — | — |
| Per TB/s · hour (median) | $0.502 | $0.321 | +57% |
| Trend | |||
| 30-day median change | — | 0.0% | — |
| 90-day median change | — | 0.0% | — |
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
- 1Vast.aiTrust 781× $0.06
- 2Clore.aiTrust 491× $0.08
- 3
Theta EdgeCloud1× $0.09
Verdict · computed from the numbers aboveChoose one, choose the other
Choose the RTX 3050 if…
- No metric above favours it today.
Choose the RTX 4060 if…
- the hourly price matters most: median $0.09 against $0.11, 22% less.
- you serve LLMs: memory bandwidth per dollar is better ($0.321 per TB/s-hour against $0.502).
Questions about RTX 3050 vs RTX 4060
Which is cheaper to rent, the RTX 3050 or the RTX 4060?
Today the cheapest current on-demand RTX 3050 is $0.04 per GPU-hour and the cheapest RTX 4060 is $0.06; medians are $0.11 and $0.09. Cheapest excludes offers marked unavailable and counts one floor per marketplace.
How much memory do the RTX 3050 and RTX 4060 have?
8 GB of GDDR6 on the RTX 3050, 8 GB of GDDR6 on the RTX 4060, at 0.22 and 0.27 TB/s.
Where do these numbers come from?
From 10 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.