DeepSeek R1 · Performance per Dollar

DeepSeek R1 — H200 vs MI300X Performance per Dollar

Cost per million tokens of H200 (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.

At 36 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1, H200 costs $0.19 per million tokens; MI300X costs $1.16. H200 is 501% more cost-efficient at this operating point.

H200 edges MI300X at 47 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1 — $0.42 per million tokens versus $1.66, a 293% cost-per-token gap.

Push DeepSeek R1 to 58 tok/s/user and H200 lands at $0.92 per million tokens against MI300X's $2.74 — H200 pulls ahead by 198%. (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): H200 $1.41/GPU/hr · MI300X $1.12/GPU/hr. Source: SemiAnalysis Market August 2025 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model.

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DeepSeek R1: H200 versus MI300X cost per million tokens at matched interactivity levels
H200 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
H200:$0.194MI300X:$1.163
H200:$0.423MI300X:$1.663
H200:$0.919MI300X:$2.737
Concurrency
H200:~1024MI300X:~31
H200:~862MI300X:~17
H200:~66MI300X:~8

Inference Performance

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