AMD MI250
vs
Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada
The MI250 has 2.7x the memory and 3.3x the bandwidth.
At a glance
Memory
2.7x more on MI250
- MI250
- 128 GB
- RTX 5880 Ada
- 48 GB
Memory bandwidth
3.3x higher on MI250
- MI250
- 3,200 GB/s
- RTX 5880 Ada
- 960 GB/s
Cheapest on-demand
- MI250
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- RTX 5880 Ada
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Price comparison
Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.
Price history
MI250 vs RTX 5880 Ada price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Aggregating historical prices...
Specs comparison
| Spec | MI250 | RTX 5880 Ada | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 128 GB HBM2e | 48 GB GDDR6 | 2.7x more on MI250 |
| Bandwidth | 3,200 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 3.3x higher on MI250 |
| Bus width | 8,192-bit | 384-bit | 21x wider on MI250 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 554.2 TFLOPS | RTX 5880 Ada only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 362.1 TFLOPS | 277.1 TFLOPS | 31% higher on MI250 |
| INT8 | 362.1 TOPS | ||
| FP32 | 90.5 TFLOPS | 69.3 TFLOPS | 31% 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 | 285 W | 75% higher on MI250 |
| Released | Q4 2021 | Q1 2024 | 2 years newer on RTX 5880 Ada |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16FP32FP64INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: MI250 datasheet and RTX 5880 Ada datasheet.
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Nvidia RTX A6000
48 GB GDDR6 · 20% less bandwidth than the RTX 5880 Ada
On-demand from $0.35 /GPU/hr
Our data for AMD MI250 was last updated on Sept. 14, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada on Sept. 14, 2026.