AMD MI300X
vs
Nvidia A800
Two data center GPUs, one CDNA 3 and one Ampere: 192 GB HBM3 against 40 GB HBM2 and 3.4x the memory bandwidth on the MI300X.
At a glance
Updated 6 minutes ago- Memory
- 192 GB
- HBM3
- Memory bandwidth
- 5.30 TB/s
- From
- $2.59 /GPU/hr
- 10 providers
- Memory
- 40 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.55 TB/s
- From
- $1.18 /GPU/hr
- 1 provider
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | MI300X | A800 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $2.59 | $1.18 | 2.2x more expensive on MI300X |
| Spot | $1.60 | No spot listings | |
| Reserved | $1.61 | No reserved listings | |
| Median | $2.99 | $1.18 | 2.5x more expensive on MI300X |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
MI300X vs A800 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | MI300X | A800 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 192 GB HBM3 | 40 GB HBM2 | 4.8x more on MI300X |
| Bandwidth | 5,300 GB/s | 1,555 GB/s | 3.4x higher on MI300X |
| Bus width | 8,192-bit | 5,120-bit | 1.6x wider on MI300X |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 2,614.9 TFLOPS | Not supported | MI300X only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 1,307.4 TFLOPS | 312 TFLOPS | 4.2x higher on MI300X |
| INT8 | 2,614.9 TOPS | 623.5 TOPS | 4.2x higher on MI300X |
| FP32 | 163.4 TFLOPS | 19.5 TFLOPS | 8.4x higher on MI300X |
| FP64 | 81.7 TFLOPS | 9.7 TFLOPS | 8.4x higher on MI300X |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | Infinity Fabric 896 GB/s | NVLink 400 GB/s | 2.2x higher on MI300X |
| Board power | 750 W | 240 W | 3.1x higher on MI300X |
| Released | Q4 2023 | Q4 2022 | 13 months newer on MI300X |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8 | FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8 | |
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: MI300X datasheet and A800 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | MI300X /GPU/hr | A800 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
DigitalOcean
|
On-Demand $2.59 | -- |
Cyfuture AI
|
On-Demand $2.78 | -- |
Hot Aisle
|
On-Demand $2.99 | -- |
Oracle Cloud
|
On-Demand $6.00 | -- |
Azure
|
On-Demand $7.86 | -- |
Cirrascale
|
Reserved (12mo) $3.12 | -- |
Crusoe
|
Reservation on request | -- |
Runpod
|
Reservation on request | -- |
GPUhub
|
-- | On-Demand $1.18 |
10 providers list the MI300X and 1 the A800. Every listing is on the MI300X page and the A800 page.
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Our data for AMD MI300X was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia A800 on Sept. 7, 2026.