Consumer · Ampere · launched 2021 · prices checked 2026-09-14
Rent NVIDIA RTX 3060 — 12 GB, $0.042/hr on-demand
- VRAM 12 GBGDDR6
- FP16 tensor 51TFLOPS
- PowerScore 36RTX 3090 = 100
- Configs 1–8×PCIe 4.0
- Online now 279 19 regions
Billed per second, price locked at deploy. Storage $0.08/GB/mo · bandwidth $0.01/GB — the whole fee schedule. Next weekly market re-check: 2026-09-21.
Consumer · Ampere architecture
The RTX 3060 (12 GB) is the entry point of the catalogue: enough VRAM for 7B–8B models in 4-bit, Stable Diffusion 1.5 and SDXL at modest batch sizes, and student projects — for pennies an hour with deep supply.
A cost-efficient card for right-sized jobs: batch inference, smaller models, CI pipelines and experiments where a flagship would idle. Per-second billing makes it perfect for short bursts.
NVIDIA RTX 3060 specs: VRAM, TFLOPS, bandwidth
| GPU model | NVIDIA RTX 3060 | Architecture | Ampere (2021) |
|---|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 12 GB GDDR6 | Memory bandwidth | 360 GB/s |
| FP16 tensor perf. | 51 TFLOPS | FP32 perf. | 12.7 TFLOPS |
| CUDA cores | 3,584 | TDP | 170 W |
| PowerScore (RTX 3090 = 100) | 36 | PCIe generation | Gen 4.0 |
| Multi-GPU | 1× – 8× | Max instance storage | 4,000 GB NVMe |
| Network up to | 2,500 Mbps | CUDA | 12.4 – 13.0 |
Bandwidth, CUDA cores, TDP and FP32 are public NVIDIA figures; FP16 tensor is the dense (non-sparsity) number. Machine-level values come from live inventory.
RTX 3060 price per hour: on-demand, interruptible, reserved
One public rule sets every price on this page: the marketplace median for the RTX 3060 ($0.06/hr, snapshot 2026-09-14) × 0.70, rounded down — so on-demand is $0.042, 30% below market. Interruptible halves it; a 3-month reservation takes another 35% off.
| Mode | Per GPU-hour | Per day (24 h) | Per month (730 h) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.042 | $1.01 | $31 | Guaranteed capacity, price locked at deploy, stop anytime |
| Interruptible | $0.021 | $0.50 | $15 | Flat −50%; may pause under capacity pressure, disk kept, auto-requeue |
| Reserved (3 months) | $0.027 | $0.65 | $20 | −35% on on-demand, rate locked for the term, capacity held |
Per GPU: an 8× machine costs exactly 8× — no multi-GPU premium. Estimate a full month with storage and bandwidth in the GPU cost calculator.
What you can run on a RTX 3060 (12 GB VRAM)
With 12 GB of GDDR6, a single card holds a ~3B-parameter LLM in FP16 or up to ~14B parameters quantized to 4-bit, with room for KV-cache at practical context lengths. Scale to 8× GPUs on one machine for bigger models or bigger batches — the per-GPU price stays $0.042.
- One-click template: Ollama on a RTX 3060
- One-click template: SD WebUI Forge on a RTX 3060
- One-click template: Whisper WebUI & API on a RTX 3060
- Sizing help: LLM VRAM requirements guide
RTX 3060 availability by region
279 × RTX 3060 across 30 machines, live from inventory:
Stockholm
Warsaw
Dallas, TX
Osaka
Singapore
São Paulo- Tokyo
Amsterdam
Seoul
Santiago
Jakarta
Sydney- +7 more
RTX 3060 vs alternatives: price per TFLOP
| GPU | VRAM | FP16 | On-demand | $ / TFLOP-hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 this card | 12 GB | 51 | $0.042 | $0.82‰ |
| RTX 3060 Ti | 8 GB | 65 | $0.047 | $0.72‰ |
| RTX 3060 laptop | 6 GB | 43 | $0.047 | $1.09‰ |
| RTX 3070 | 8 GB | 81 | $0.056 | $0.69‰ |
| RTX 3070 Ti | 8 GB | 87 | $0.066 | $0.76‰ |
‰ = dollars per 1,000 TFLOP-hours of FP16 — a rough value-for-compute yardstick across cards.
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Renting a RTX 3060: frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent an NVIDIA RTX 3060 per hour?
$0.042 per GPU-hour on-demand — a fixed price set at least 30% below the current market median of $0.06. Interruptible capacity costs $0.021/hr and a 3-month reservation $0.027/hr. Around $31/month if you keep one running non-stop, billed per second.
What can a RTX 3060 with 12 GB VRAM run?
In LLM terms, roughly a 3B-parameter model in FP16 or up to ~14B parameters 4-bit quantized on a single card, with context headroom. Multi-GPU instances (up to 8× on current inventory) multiply that; diffusion and rendering workloads fit comfortably at this VRAM class.
Is the RTX 3060 available to rent right now?
Yes — 279 GPUs across 30 machines in 19 regions are listed as we render this page. Configurations go from 1× to 8×. Deploy from the console and it is running in about 30 seconds.
How do I deploy a RTX 3060?
Create an account (email + password, no card, no KYC), top up in crypto, open the console, filter by RTX 3060, pick a machine and a template such as PyTorch, vLLM or ComfyUI. The same deploy is one command with the CLI: powergpu launch --gpu rtx-3060 --template pytorch.
Why is the RTX 3060 cheaper here than on GPU marketplaces?
We price from the public marketplace median and fix our on-demand rate at least 30% below it, rounded down. The price is re-checked weekly (next check 2026-09-21) and published — no auctions, no per-host roulette, no bidding.