AMD MI250
vs
Nvidia GTX 1060
A data center GPU against a consumer card, one CDNA2 and one Pascal: 128 GB HBM2e against 6 GB GDDR5, 17x the memory bandwidth on the MI250, and Infinity Fabric 400 GB/s on the MI250 where the GTX 1060 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 7 minutes ago- Memory
- 128 GB
- HBM2e
- Memory bandwidth
- 3.20 TB/s
- From
- --
- Not sold on demand · 1 provider
- Memory
- 6 GB
- GDDR5
- Memory bandwidth
- 192 GB/s
- From
- $0.03 /GPU/hr
- 2 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | MI250 | GTX 1060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | Not sold on demand | $0.03 | |
| Spot | No spot listings | $0.02 | |
| Reserved | $1.30 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $1.50 | $0.06 | 25x more expensive on MI250 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
MI250 vs GTX 1060 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | MI250 | GTX 1060 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 128 GB HBM2e | 6 GB GDDR5 | 21x more on MI250 |
| Bandwidth | 3,200 GB/s | 192 GB/s | 17x higher on MI250 |
| Bus width | 8,192-bit | 192-bit | 43x wider on MI250 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP16 / BF16 | 362.1 TFLOPS | ||
| INT8 | 362.1 TOPS | Not supported | MI250 only |
| FP32 | 90.5 TFLOPS | 4.4 TFLOPS | 21x higher on MI250 |
| FP64 | 45.3 TFLOPS | Not supported | MI250 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | Infinity Fabric 400 GB/s | PCIe only | Infinity Fabric on MI250 only |
| Board power | 500 W | 120 W | 4.2x higher on MI250 |
| Released | Q4 2021 | Q3 2016 | 5 years newer on MI250 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP16FP32 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: MI250 datasheet and GTX 1060 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | MI250 /GPU/hr | GTX 1060 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Cirrascale
|
Reserved (12mo) $1.30 | -- |
Salad
|
-- | On-Demand $0.0300 |
Vast.ai
|
-- | On-Demand $0.09 |
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Our data for AMD MI250 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia GTX 1060 on Sept. 7, 2026.