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NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

6 GB VRAM115 W TDP1 providers5 offerings3 regions

The NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is a consumer-grade GPU built on the Ampere architecture, featuring 6 GB of memory with 336 GB/s of memory bandwidth and a 115 W TDP. Currently available from 1 provider starting at $0.03/GPU/hour, with a market median of $0.04/GPU/hour across 5 configurations.

Cheapest
$0.030/hr
Vast.ai
Median
$0.040/hr
across 5 offerings
Most expensive
$0.070/hr
Vast.ai
90-day trend
0.0%
median rate

Hardware specifications

Same across all providers

Memory
6 GB
GDDR6X
What LLMs fit? ↓
TDP
115 W
Memory bandwidth
336 GB/s
Architecture
Ampere
Brand
NVIDIA
Series
GeForce RTX
Market price history

Median price across all providers

Prices updated 19 minutes ago

1 offering from 1 providers

Sorted by price ascending. Compare configurations side-by-side.

ProviderCountvCPURAMRegionPer GPU hourTotal/hrAction
Vast.ai logoVast.aiReferral linkTrendingCheapest
×112 GB
United StatesBulgariaNew Zealand
From$0.030
-16.7% 30d
From$0.03
Launch

LLMs that fit on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

Estimated VRAM for popular open-weight LLMs at 16-bit (FP16/BF16), 8-bit (FP8/INT8) and 4-bit (INT4/MXFP4) precision, against 6 GB per GPU. Showing the 12 largest that fit.

ModelParameters16-bit8-bit4-bit
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
Alibaba
35B
3B active
86 GB
Too large
47 GB
Barely fits on 8×
28 GB
8× · 20 GB free
Qwen3 32B
Alibaba
32.8B
79 GB
Too large
43 GB
8× · 4.8 GB free
25 GB
8× · 23 GB free
Gemma 4 31B
Google
31.3B
75 GB
Too large
41 GB
8× · 6.7 GB free
24 GB
8× · 24 GB free
GLM-4.7 Flash
Z.ai
31.2B
75 GB
Too large
41 GB
8× · 6.8 GB free
24 GB
8× · 24 GB free
Qwen3.6 27B
Alibaba
27.8B
67 GB
Too large
37 GB
8× · 11 GB free
21 GB
8× · 27 GB free
Mistral Small 3.2 24B
Mistral AI
24B
58 GB
Too large
32 GB
8× · 16 GB free
18 GB
8× · 30 GB free
gpt-oss-20b
OpenAI
21B
3.6B active
Not released
Not released
17 GB
8× · 31 GB free
Gemma 3 12B
Google
12.2B
29 GB
8× · 19 GB free
16 GB
8× · 32 GB free
9.4 GB
2× · 2.6 GB free
Granite 4.1 8B
IBM
8.8B
21 GB
8× · 27 GB free
12 GB
Barely fits on 2×
6.8 GB
2× · 5.2 GB free
or 1× · 6% spare
Qwen3 8B
Alibaba
8.2B
20 GB
8× · 28 GB free
11 GB
2× · 1.2 GB free
6.3 GB
2× · 5.7 GB free
or 1× · 14% spare
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Meta
8B
19 GB
8× · 29 GB free
11 GB
2× · 1.4 GB free
6.2 GB
2× · 5.8 GB free
or 1× · 16% spare
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3
Mistral AI
7.2B
17 GB
8× · 31 GB free
9.6 GB
2× · 2.4 GB free
5.6 GB
Barely fits on 1×

Estimates: model weights plus 20% for KV cache and runtime overhead, at short context lengths. Long contexts and large batches need more. Rows marked “tight” hold the weights but not that full margin. A ×N figure is the total VRAM across N of these GPUs and makes no claim about interconnect throughput. How we estimate this

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Frequently asked questions

How much does the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU cost per hour?
The RTX 3060 Laptop GPU starts at $0.03 per GPU-hour, with a median of $0.04 across 5 available configurations. Actual pricing depends on the provider, region, and whether you rent on-demand, spot or reserved.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU?
1 providers currently list the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU: Vast.ai. Compare their hourly pricing, regions and machine specs in the table above.
How much VRAM does the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU have?
The RTX 3060 Laptop GPU comes with 6 GB of VRAM, which determines the largest models and batch sizes it can hold in memory for training and inference.
Which LLMs can I run on the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU?
With 6 GB of VRAM, a single RTX 3060 Laptop GPU can serve models such as Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3. The table above lists the estimated VRAM for each model at 16-bit, 8-bit and 4-bit precision, including the multi-GPU configurations needed for larger models.
What's the biggest LLM I can run on multiple RTX 3060 Laptop GPU GPUs?
The largest models we track that fit across several RTX 3060 Laptop GPU cards are Qwen3.6 35B-A3B on 8 GPUs at 8-bit, Qwen3 32B on 8 GPUs at 8-bit, Gemma 4 31B on 8 GPUs at 8-bit. A multi-GPU configuration means you rent and pay for every card for the whole run, and splitting a model across cards costs throughput as well: the GPUs exchange activations on every token, so performance depends on how fast they are wired together. We do not track interconnect, so check the provider's node specification. The table above gives the smallest configuration for each model at 16-bit, 8-bit and 4-bit precision.
Where is the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU cheapest?
The lowest on-demand price we currently track for the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is $0.03 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai. Because providers update pricing and availability frequently, check the live table above before you launch.