Nvidia RTX 3060 vs Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti

Nvidia RTX 3060 wins twice: it rents for 3.8x less per hour and still buys 1.2x more FP16 compute per dollar.

Prices and stock checked 2 hours ago

Datasheet, side by side

Memory per GPUidentical
Memory bandwidth1.4x on the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti
FP16 / BF16 dense3.1x on the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti
Board power1.7x on the Nvidia RTX 3060

Figures are the vendors' own published numbers, dense rates without sparsity. A bar is drawn only where both cards publish the same figure.

Price, side by side

Metric Nvidia RTX 3060 Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti
Cheapest listed $0.03 $0.11
Median across providers $0.04 $0.15
Most expensive listed $0.06 $0.19
Providers 2 2
Reporting stock 1 1
One month, 730 hours $21 $80

Frequently asked questions

Is the Nvidia RTX 3060 or the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti cheaper to rent?

The Nvidia RTX 3060 starts at $0.03 per GPU hour and the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti at $0.11. Nvidia RTX 3060 wins twice: it rents for 3.8x less per hour and still buys 1.2x more FP16 compute per dollar.

Which one can I actually get right now?

Nvidia RTX 3060: 1 of 2 providers report stock, cheapest in stock $0.03 at Vast.ai. Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti: 1 of 2 providers report stock, cheapest in stock $0.19 at Runpod.

What does a month on each card cost?

Nvidia RTX 3060: $21 for 730 hours at its cheapest listed rate. Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti: $80 for 730 hours at its cheapest listed rate.