DeepSeek R1 — GB300 NVL72 vs H100 Performance per Dollar
Cost per million tokens of GB300 NVL72 (NVIDIA Blackwell) versus H100 (NVIDIA Hopper) 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.
On DeepSeek R1 at 45 tok/s/user, the per-million math comes out to $0.07 for GB300 NVL72 and $0.44 for H100; GB300 NVL72 delivers 496% more output per dollar.
At 71 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1, GB300 NVL72 costs $0.09 per million tokens; H100 costs $1.16. GB300 NVL72 is 1193% more cost-efficient at this operating point.
GB300 NVL72 edges H100 at 97 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1 — $0.12 per million tokens versus $2.11, a 1714% cost-per-token gap. (Numbers reflect the default 8k/1k · fp8 selection for this URL — table and chart below update if you change sequence, precision, or model in the controls.)
Chip pricing (owning hyperscaler): GB300 NVL72 $2.31/chip/hr · H100 $1.17/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 | GB300 NVL72:$0.074H100:$0.439 | GB300 NVL72:$0.090H100:$1.158 | GB300 NVL72:$0.116H100:$2.106 |
| Concurrency | GB300 NVL72:~1229H100:~132 | GB300 NVL72:~732H100:~41 | GB300 NVL72:~437H100:~17 |
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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