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MI250 vs RTX 5000

AMD MI250 vs Nvidia RTX 5000

A data center GPU against a workstation card, one CDNA2 and one Turing: 128 GB HBM2e against 16 GB GDDR6 and 7.1x the memory bandwidth on the MI250.

At a glance

Updated 12 hours ago

AMD MI250

Memory: 128 GB; HBM2e
Memory bandwidth: 3.20 TB/s
From: --; Not sold on demand · 1 provider

Nvidia RTX 5000

Memory: 16 GB; GDDR6
Memory bandwidth: 448 GB/s
From: $0.60 /GPU/hr; 2 providers

Price comparison

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing	MI250	RTX 5000	Difference
On-demand	Not sold on demand	$0.60
Reserved	$1.30	No reserved listings
Median	$1.50	$0.71	2.1x 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 RTX 5000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	MI250	RTX 5000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	128 GB HBM2e	16 GB GDDR6	8x more on MI250
Bandwidth	3,200 GB/s	448 GB/s	7.1x higher on MI250
Bus width	8,192-bit	256-bit	32x wider on MI250
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	362.1 TFLOPS	89.2 TFLOPS	4.1x higher on MI250
INT8	362.1 TOPS	178.4 TOPS	2x higher on MI250
FP32	90.5 TFLOPS	11.2 TFLOPS	8.1x higher on MI250
FP64	45.3 TFLOPS	Not supported	MI250 only
Platform
Interconnect	Infinity Fabric 400 GB/s	NVLink 50 GB/s	8x higher on MI250
Board power	500 W	265 W	1.9x higher on MI250
Released	Q4 2021	Q3 2018	3 years newer on MI250
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: MI250 datasheet and RTX 5000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	MI250 /GPU/hr	RTX 5000 /GPU/hr
Cirrascale	Reserved (12mo) $1.30	--
OVH	--	On-Demand $0.60
Paperspace	--	On-Demand $0.82

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Our data for AMD MI250 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.