AMD MI250
vs
Nvidia A5000
A data center GPU against a workstation card, one CDNA2 and one Ampere: 128 GB HBM2e against 24 GB GDDR6 and 4.2x the memory bandwidth on the MI250.
At a glance
Updated 23 minutes ago- Memory
- 128 GB
- HBM2e
- Memory bandwidth
- 3.20 TB/s
- From
- --
- Not sold on demand · 1 provider
- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 768 GB/s
- From
- $0.25 /GPU/hr
- 11 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | MI250 | A5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | Not sold on demand | $0.25 | |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.09 | |
| Reserved | $1.30 | $0.25 | 5.2x more expensive on MI250 |
| Median | $1.50 | $1.38 | 8% cheaper on A5000 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
MI250 vs A5000 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | MI250 | A5000 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 128 GB HBM2e | 24 GB GDDR6 | 5.3x more on MI250 |
| Bandwidth | 3,200 GB/s | 768 GB/s | 4.2x higher on MI250 |
| Bus width | 8,192-bit | 384-bit | 21x wider on MI250 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 362.1 TFLOPS | 111.1 TFLOPS | 3.3x higher on MI250 |
| INT8 | 362.1 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 90.5 TFLOPS | 27.8 TFLOPS | 3.3x higher on MI250 |
| FP64 | 45.3 TFLOPS | Not supported | MI250 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | Infinity Fabric 400 GB/s | NVLink 112 GB/s | 3.6x higher on MI250 |
| Board power | 500 W | 230 W | 2.2x higher on MI250 |
| Released | Q4 2021 | Q2 2021 | 7 months newer on MI250 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: MI250 datasheet and A5000 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | MI250 /GPU/hr | A5000 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Cirrascale
|
Reserved (12mo) $1.30 | Reserved (12mo) $0.42 |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.25 |
Runcrate
|
-- | On-Demand $1.56 |
Sesterce
|
-- | On-Demand $1.56 |
Exoscale
|
-- | On-Demand $1.14 |
Paperspace
|
-- | On-Demand $1.38 |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.25 |
Utho
|
-- | Reserved (36mo) $0.29 |
1 provider list the MI250 and 11 the A5000. Every listing is on the MI250 page and the A5000 page.
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Our data for AMD MI250 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia A5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.