GB300 vs MI355X
Specifications, today's prices from 6 providers, price per unit of memory and compute, and who rents each cheapest. Better values are highlighted; lower is better for prices.
Specs, prices, value
Highlighted cells are the better of the two: more memory and compute, lower prices, lower cost per unit.
| GB300 | MI355X | Difference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory & compute | |||
| VRAM | 279 GB | 288 GB | -3% |
| Memory bandwidth | 8.00 TB/s | 8.00 TB/s | 0% |
| FP16 tensor | 2,500 TFLOPS | 2,516.6 TFLOPS | -1% |
| FP32 | 80 TFLOPS | 157.3 TFLOPS | -49% |
| Power | 1400 W | 1400 W | 0% |
| Prices today | |||
| Cheapest on-demand | $6.50 | $2.95 | +120% |
| Median on-demand | $13.05 | $5.99 | +118% |
| Highest on-demand | $20.00 | $6.30 | +217% |
| Cheapest spot | $6.53 | $3.44 | +90% |
| Cheapest reserved | $5.26 | $6.13 | -14% |
| Current offers (n) | 5 | 3 | +67% |
| Providers with a fresh offer | 3 | 3 | 0% |
| Value | |||
| Per GB of VRAM · hour (cheapest) | $0.023 | $0.010 | +127% |
| Per GB of VRAM · hour (median) | $0.047 | $0.021 | +125% |
| Per PFLOP FP16 · hour (median) | $5.220 | $2.380 | +119% |
| Per TB/s · hour (median) | $1.631 | $0.749 | +118% |
| Trend | |||
| 30-day median change | — | — | — |
| 90-day median change | — | — | — |
How the two have moved
Both medians indexed to 100 ninety days ago, so the slopes compare even though the price levels differ.
Cheapest providers today · on-demand · current offersWho rents each one cheapest
- 1
Limestone Networks72× $6.50 - 2
VerdaTrust 811× $13.05 - 3
Fireworks AI1× $20.00
- 1
TensorWaveTrust 648× $2.95 - 2
Daytona1× $5.99 - 3
OpenRelay1× $6.30
Choose one, choose the other
Choose the GB300 if…
- No metric above favours it today.
Choose the MI355X if…
- your model needs more than 279 GB per GPU: 288 GB against 279 GB.
- the hourly price matters most: median $5.99 against $13.05, 54% less.
- you serve LLMs: memory bandwidth per dollar is better ($0.749 per TB/s-hour against $1.631).
Questions about GB300 vs MI355X
Which is cheaper to rent, the GB300 or the MI355X?
Today the cheapest current on-demand GB300 is $6.50 per GPU-hour and the cheapest MI355X is $2.95; medians are $13.05 and $5.99. Cheapest excludes offers marked unavailable and counts one floor per marketplace.
How much memory do the GB300 and MI355X have?
279 GB of HBM3e on the GB300, 288 GB of HBM3E on the MI355X, at 8.00 and 8.00 TB/s.
Where do these numbers come from?
From 8 current offers read on the providers' own pages and APIs over the last 45 days (reference 00:32 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.
