DeepSeek R1 · Performance per Dollar

DeepSeek R1 — MI300X vs MI355X Performance per Dollar

Cost per million tokens of MI300X (AMD CDNA 3) 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.

On DeepSeek R1 at 23 tok/s/user, the per-million math comes out to $0.36 for MI300X and $0.12 for MI355X; MI355X delivers 206% more output per dollar.

At 32 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1, MI300X costs $0.44 per million tokens; MI355X costs $0.15. MI355X is 189% more cost-efficient at this operating point.

MI355X edges MI300X at 42 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1 — $0.19 per million tokens versus $0.65, a 250% 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): MI300X $0.95/chip/hr · MI355X $1.50/chip/hr. Source: SemiAnalysis Market July 2026 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model.

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DeepSeek R1: MI300X versus MI355X cost per million tokens at matched interactivity levels
MI300X versus MI355X 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
MI300X:$0.364MI355X:$0.119
MI300X:$0.439MI355X:$0.152
MI300X:$0.650MI355X:$0.186
Concurrency
MI300X:~30MI355X:~2048
MI300X:~18MI355X:~515
MI300X:~10MI355X:~45

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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