DeepSeek R1 — GB200 NVL72 vs MI355X Performance per Dollar
Cost per million tokens of GB200 NVL72 (NVIDIA Blackwell) versus MI355X (AMD CDNA 4) 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.
Push DeepSeek R1 to 93 tok/s/user and GB200 NVL72 lands at $0.04 per million tokens against MI355X's $0.05 — GB200 NVL72 pulls ahead by 21%.
GB200 NVL72: $0.12 per million tokens. MI355X: $0.21. Both at 162 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1, with GB200 NVL72 67% cheaper.
Toward the upper edge of the 24–299 tok/s/user interactivity band — at 231 tok/s/user — GB200 NVL72 runs $0.51 per million tokens on DeepSeek R1 while MI355X runs $0.72. GB200 NVL72 is the cheaper choice by 40%. (Numbers reflect the default 8k/1k · fp4 selection for this URL — table and chart below update if you change sequence, precision, or model in the controls.)
Chip pricing (owning hyperscaler): GB200 NVL72 $1.86/chip/hr · MI355X $1.50/chip/hr. Source: SemiAnalysis Market July 2026 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model.
| Metric | Interactivity (tok/s/user) | Interactivity (tok/s/user) | Interactivity (tok/s/user) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dollar per Million Tokens | GB200 NVL72:$0.045MI355X:$0.054 | GB200 NVL72:$0.123MI355X:$0.206 | GB200 NVL72:$0.510MI355X:$0.717 |
| Concurrency | GB200 NVL72:~913MI355X:~215 | GB200 NVL72:~178MI355X:~61 | GB200 NVL72:~19MI355X:~8 |
Inference Performance
Agentic inference metrics from the AgentX scenario and fixed-sequence inference metrics across models, hardware configurations, and serving parameters.
Cost per Million Total Tokens (Owning - Hyperscaler) vs. Interactivity
DeepSeek R1 0528 671B • FP4 • 8K / 1K • Source: SemiAnalysis InferenceX™
TCO $/chip/hr: H100: 1.17H200: 1.22B200: 1.73B300: 2.26GB200: 1.86GB300: 2.31MI300X: 0.95MI325X: 1.1MI355X: 1.5RTX6000PRO: 0.68
Source: SemiAnalysis Market July 2026 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model
Note: Disaggregated inference configurations (e.g., MoRI SGLang, Dynamo TRTLLM) calculate cost per million tokens per decode chip or per prefill chip, rather than per total chip count. This makes direct token cost comparison with aggregated configs not an apples-to-apples comparison.
Note: Disaggregated inference configurations (e.g., MoRI SGLang, Dynamo TRTLLM) calculate input throughput per decode chip or per prefill chip, rather than per total chip count. This makes direct input throughput comparison with aggregated configs not an apples-to-apples comparison.
Note: Disaggregated inference configurations (e.g., MoRI SGLang, Dynamo TRTLLM) calculate output throughput per decode chip or per prefill chip, rather than per total chip count. This makes direct output throughput comparison with aggregated configs not an apples-to-apples comparison.
Note: Disaggregated inference configurations (e.g., MoRI SGLang, Dynamo TRTLLM) calculate power per decode chip or per prefill chip, rather than per total chip count. This makes direct power comparison with aggregated configs not an apples-to-apples comparison.
Note: Disaggregated inference configurations (e.g., MoRI SGLang, Dynamo TRTLLM) calculate Joules per decode chip or per prefill chip, rather than per total chip count. This makes direct Joules per token comparison with aggregated configs not an apples-to-apples comparison.
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