Head to head

RTX 3060 12GB vs A100 80GB

The A100 80GB holds more — 80 GB against 12 GB — which decides what you can load at all. The A100 80GB has more bandwidth at 2039 GB/s, which decides how fast tokens come out once a model fits.

Model (Q4_K_M, 8K)RTX 3060 12GBtok/sA100 80GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 43.7 Runs comfortably 238
Llama 3.1 70B Won't fit 1.13 Runs comfortably 30.5
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 97.2 Runs comfortably 512
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 260 Runs comfortably 1319
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Won't fit 4.27 Runs comfortably 100
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 42.3 Runs comfortably 230
Qwen3 14B Won't fit 22.1 Runs comfortably 136
Qwen3 32B Won't fit 3.06 Runs comfortably 63.5
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 77.4 Runs comfortably 407
Qwen3 30B-A3B Won't fit 26.1 Runs comfortably 163
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 3.07 Won't fit 6.02
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Won't fit 3.06 Runs comfortably 63.5
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 48.5 Runs comfortably 265
Qwen2.5 72B Won't fit 1.08 Runs comfortably 29.6
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 82.6 Runs comfortably 434
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 29.7 Runs comfortably 162

Specifications

RTX 3060 12GBA100 80GB
Memory12 GB80 GB
Bandwidth360 GB/s2039 GB/s
FP16 compute25 TFLOPS312 TFLOPS
Launch price$329$15,000
ArchitectureAmpereAmpere