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H200 SXM vs MI300X
Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed hourly. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.
CHEAPEST H200 SXM
$0.774/hr
OVHcloud · median $4.59 · 58 providers
CHEAPEST MI300X
$0.500/hr
RunPod · median $7.20 · 13 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
MI300X
live panel, 2026-09-27
| H200 SXM | MI300X | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | AMD |
| ARCHITECTURE | Hopper | CDNA 3 |
| LAUNCHED | 2024 | 2023 |
| MEMORY | 141 GB HBM3e | 192 GB HBM3 |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 4.8 TB/s | 5.3 TB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 989 TFLOPS FP16/BF16 tensor dense (1,979 sparse); 1,979 TFLOPS FP8 dense | 1,307 TFLOPS FP16/BF16 dense (2,614 sparse); 2,614 TFLOPS FP8 dense |
| POWER DRAW | 700 W | 750 W |
| INTERCONNECT | NVLink 4.0 900 GB/s | Infinity Fabric 896 GB/s |
HOW TO CHOOSE
MI300X vs H200 SXM
H200 narrows the memory gap (141 GB, 4.8 TB/s) with CUDA maturity. The decision is ROCm coverage plus the live price spread.
Workload fit
H200 SXM: large-model inference, memory-bound training, moe serving. MI300X: large-model inference, memory-bound training, cost-optimized clusters.
H200 SXM VS MI300X - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, H200 SXM or MI300X?
By today's published on-demand rates: H200 SXM starts at $0.774/GPU/hr (median $4.59, 58 providers) and MI300X starts at $0.500/GPU/hr (median $7.20, 13 providers). The cheapest live listing is the MI300X at RunPod. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
H200 SXM or MI300X - which should I rent?
H200 SXM: The H200 is an H100 with the memory subsystem rebuilt: 141 GB of HBM3e at 4.8 TB/s versus 80 GB at 3.35. MI300X: The MI300X is AMD's serious answer to Hopper: more memory (192 GB) and more bandwidth (5.3 TB/s) than any NVIDIA part before Blackwell, at panel prices that frequently undercut H100. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent H200 SXM and MI300X?
58 providers publish H200 SXM rates and 13 publish MI300X rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
Full pricing: H200 SXM · MI300X · all comparisons