DeepSeek R1 · Performance per Dollar

DeepSeek R1 — B300 vs MI325X Performance per Dollar

Cost per million tokens of B300 (NVIDIA Blackwell) versus MI325X (AMD CDNA 3) on DeepSeek R1. Owning-hyperscaler TCO normalized by output tokens — performance per dollar across LLM workloads. Pick the more cost-efficient SKU at every target interactivity level. Use the chart controls below to switch sequences, precisions, and metrics — same interactions as the main inference chart.

At 39 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1, B300 costs $0.16 per million tokens; MI325X costs $1.03. B300 is 544% more cost-efficient at this operating point.

B300 edges MI325X at 50 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1 — $0.20 per million tokens versus $1.57, a 673% cost-per-token gap.

Push DeepSeek R1 to 60 tok/s/user and B300 lands at $0.33 per million tokens against MI325X's $2.67 — B300 pulls ahead by 706%. (Numbers reflect the default 1k/1k · fp8 selection for this URL — table and chart below update if you change sequence, precision, or model in the controls.)

GPU pricing (owning hyperscaler): B300 $2.34/GPU/hr · MI325X $1.28/GPU/hr. Source: SemiAnalysis Market August 2025 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model.

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DeepSeek R1: B300 versus MI325X cost per million tokens at matched interactivity levels
B300 versus MI325X cost per million tokens for this comparison's canonical default workload. Lower cost indicates better performance per dollar.
Interpolated from real benchmark data. Edit target interactivity values below to compare at different operating points.
Metric
Interactivity (tok/s/user)
Interactivity (tok/s/user)
Interactivity (tok/s/user)
Dollar per Million Tokens
B300:$0.160MI325X:$1.027
B300:$0.203MI325X:$1.566
B300:$0.331MI325X:$2.672
Concurrency
B300:~2628MI325X:~39
B300:~1808MI325X:~19
B300:~937MI325X:~9

Inference Performance

Inference performance metrics across different models, hardware configurations, and serving parameters.