AMD MI250 vs Nvidia L40S

The MI250 has 2.7x the memory and 3.7x the bandwidth. 1 provider lists it, against 37 for the L40S.

At a glance

Memory

2.7x more on MI250

MI250: 128 GB

L40S: 48 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.7x higher on MI250

MI250: 3,200 GB/s

L40S: 864 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

MI250 is not sold on demand

MI250: --

L40S: $0.55 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	MI250	L40S
On-demand	No on-demand listings	$1.64 /GPU/hr from $0.55
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $1.30 (12 mo)	$1.16 /GPU/hr from $0.61 (12 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	$0.99 /GPU/hr from $0.74

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for reserved on the MI250: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

MI250 vs L40S price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	MI250	L40S	Difference
Memory
Capacity	128 GB HBM2e	48 GB GDDR6	2.7x more on MI250
Bandwidth	3,200 GB/s	864 GB/s	3.7x higher on MI250
Bus width	8,192-bit	384-bit	21x wider on MI250
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	733 TFLOPS	L40S only
FP16 / BF16	362.1 TFLOPS	362.1 TFLOPS	Within 5%
INT8	362.1 TOPS	733 TOPS	2x higher on L40S
FP32	90.5 TFLOPS	91.6 TFLOPS	Within 5%
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	350 W	43% higher on MI250
Released	Q4 2021	Q3 2023	2 years newer on L40S
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: MI250 datasheet and L40S datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	MI250	L40S
Cirrascale USA	$1.30 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Novita USA	--	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand
Packet·ai USA	--	$0.92 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	--	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	--	$0.97 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	--	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
UpCloud Finland	--	$1.19 /GPU/hr On-demand