GLM 5/5.1 · Performance per Dollar

GLM 5/5.1 — GB300 NVL72 vs MI355X Performance per Dollar

Cost per million tokens of GB300 NVL72 (NVIDIA Blackwell) versus MI355X (AMD CDNA 4) on GLM 5/5.1. 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 30 tok/s/user on GLM 5/5.1, GB300 NVL72 costs $0.06 per million tokens; MI355X costs $0.45. GB300 NVL72 is 600% more cost-efficient at this operating point.

GB300 NVL72 edges MI355X at 42 tok/s/user on GLM 5/5.1 — $0.07 per million tokens versus $0.90, a 1146% cost-per-token gap.

Push GLM 5/5.1 to 55 tok/s/user and GB300 NVL72 lands at $0.09 per million tokens against MI355X's $1.81 — GB300 NVL72 pulls ahead by 2018%. (Numbers reflect the default 1k/1k · fp4 selection for this URL — table and chart below update if you change sequence, precision, or model in the controls.)

GPU pricing (owning hyperscaler): GB300 NVL72 $2.65/GPU/hr · MI355X $1.48/GPU/hr. Source: SemiAnalysis Market August 2025 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model.

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GLM 5/5.1: GB300 NVL72 versus MI355X cost per million tokens at matched interactivity levels
GB300 NVL72 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
GB300 NVL72:$0.065MI355X:$0.454
GB300 NVL72:$0.072MI355X:$0.896
GB300 NVL72:$0.085MI355X:$1.808
Concurrency
GB300 NVL72:~4301MI355X:~62
GB300 NVL72:~3770MI355X:~22
GB300 NVL72:~1946MI355X:~9

Inference Performance

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

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