DeepSeek R1 · Performance per Dollar

DeepSeek R1 — H100 vs MI300X Performance per Dollar

Cost per million tokens of H100 (NVIDIA Hopper) versus MI300X (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.

H100 edges MI300X at 28 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1 — $0.38 per million tokens versus $0.40, a 5% cost-per-token gap.

Push DeepSeek R1 to 36 tok/s/user and H100 lands at $0.38 per million tokens against MI300X's $0.50 — H100 pulls ahead by 30%.

H100: $0.43 per million tokens. MI300X: $0.73. Both at 44 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1, with H100 70% cheaper. (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): H100 $1.17/chip/hr · MI300X $0.95/chip/hr. Source: SemiAnalysis Market July 2026 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model.

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DeepSeek R1: H100 versus MI300X cost per million tokens at matched interactivity levels
H100 versus MI300X 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
H100:$0.382MI300X:$0.402
H100:$0.382MI300X:$0.496
H100:$0.427MI300X:$0.726
Concurrency
H100:~154MI300X:~22
H100:~154MI300X:~15
H100:~136MI300X:~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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