AMD

Cloud GPU · verified 2026-09-05

AMD MI300X

Instinct192 GB

192 GB HBM3 at 5.3 TB/s on CDNA 3. The CUDA-free way to fit a 70B on one GPU. The software is the product. If you are not ready for ROCm, this is an expensive science project.

VRAM192 GB
From /GPU/hr$1.99
ArchitectureInstinct
VendorAMD

In brief

What to know before you rent

Catalog listings

MI300X Pricing and Availability

Published on-demand rates first. Spot and waitlists are labeled. Confirm the live rate before you provision.

ProvidersRegionBilling typeInterconnect/GPU/hr
NebiusIn stockEU-NorthOn-demandInfiniBand NDR$1.99Open provider
CrusoeLimitedUS-WestOn-demandInfiniBand NDR$2.29Open provider
CoreWeaveWaitlistUS-EastOn-demandInfiniBand NDR$2.49Open provider

Our reading

Who this GPU is for

I send people to MI300X when the bytes do not fit NVIDIA 80/141 GB and the team can live in ROCm, or already does. I do not send a PyTorch-CUDA-only shop here to “save on VRAM” and then spend two weeks on kernels. Memory is useless if the step never starts.

Rent it if ROCm-fluent labs, 70B+ that wants one GPU of HBM, HPC+AI mixes that like CDNA FP64.

Skip it if CUDA-only stacks, people who needed a Vast.ai 4090, anyone who thought AMD was a drop-in H100.

How we compare hours

Datasheet

Technical specifications

AMD Instinct MI300X · Per GPU · OAM

Compute · dense

FP8
2,615 TFLOPS~5,230 with sparsity
FP16 / BF16
1,307 TFLOPS~2,615 with sparsity
TF32
654 TFLOPS~1,307 with sparsity
INT8
2,615 TOPS~5,230 with sparsity
FP32
163 TFLOPSmatrix and vector class
FP64
82 TFLOPS163 TFLOPS matrix
Precision support
FP8, FP16, BF16, TF32, FP32, FP64, INT8

Memory

Capacity
192 GB HBM3
Bandwidth
5,300 GB/s
Bus width
8,192-bit
Infinity Cache
256 MB
ECC
Yes

Silicon

Architecture
CDNA 3
Process
5 nm / 6 nm FinFET chiplets
Compute units
304
Stream processors
19,456
Matrix cores
1,216

Fabric and host

GPU interconnect
Infinity Fabric, 7 links~896 GB/s aggregate in 8-GPU UBB
Host interface
PCIe 5.0 x16

Power

Board power
750 W

Platform

Partitioning
SR-IOV, up to 8 partitions

MI300X is an OAM on a UBB, not a dual-slot gaming card. Cloud hours are whole accelerators in AMD-shaped servers. If the provider’s image is CUDA-only, you rented the wrong cloud.

Trade-offs

Pros and cons of MI300X

What this GPU does well, and when the hour is the wrong buy.

Strengths

  • 192 GB HBM3 at 5.3 TB/s, the fit argument is real
  • Strong FP64/matrix vs Hopper’s AI-first mix
  • 8-GPU UBB with Infinity Fabric is a serious node
  • When NVIDIA SKUs are waitlisted, AMD is sometimes just… available

Limits

  • ROCm is the tax. Pay it or leave
  • Fewer on-demand rows on this index than Hopper
  • Kernel and framework gaps still ambush greenfield teams
  • 750 W OAM, not a consumer slot

ROCm is the interconnect

People compare TFLOPS to H100 and skip the framework. That is how AMD reviews become fan fiction. If vLLM/ROCm, PyTorch, and your flash-attn story are ready, 192 GB is a weapon. If not, H200 is the boring adult choice.

192 GB vs NVIDIA memory SKUs

H100 80, H200 141, B200 ~192. MI300X sits in the B200-bytes club at Hopper-ish generation software risk. I use it when NVIDIA 141 GB still spills and CUDA is not a religion.

How I actually rent it

  1. 01

    Prove ROCm

    Run the image on a small job first. Do not discover ROCm on epoch 1 of a 70B.

  2. 02

    Rent the node shape

    Single GPU vs 8× UBB. Fabric matters for the same reasons NVLink does.

  3. 03

    Keep an NVIDIA backup

    If the kernel path dies, H200 should already be in the tab.

FAQ

MI300X questions

Who has the cheapest MI300X?+

As of September 5, 2026, the cheapest verified in-stock on-demand MI300X tracked by GPUBeacon is $1.99 per GPU per hour from Nebius.

How much does the MI300X cost per month?+

As of September 5, 2026, at 720 hours per month, one MI300X costs an estimated $1,649 at the median on-demand price in this sample. Cheapest verified in stock: $1,433 per month on-demand.

Where can I rent an MI300X?+

GPUBeacon currently tracks MI300X configs from 3 providers. The cheapest verified in-stock on-demand configs come from Nebius. See the full price comparison above for every provider and config.

Are MI300X prices going up or down?+

GPUBeacon publishes a catalog sample, not a 90-day price index. As of September 5, 2026, the median on-demand MI300X in this sample is $2.29 per GPU per hour. The cheapest verified in-stock hour is $1.99.

Why choose the MI300X?+

ROCm-fluent labs, 70B+ that wants one GPU of HBM, HPC+AI mixes that like CDNA FP64.

When is the MI300X not a good fit?+

CUDA-only stacks, people who needed a Vast.ai 4090, anyone who thought AMD was a drop-in H100.

Is MI300X faster than H100?+

On raw 192 GB fit, it can win by not splitting. On CUDA-optimized FP8 training, H100/H200 often still win wall-clock. Measure the job.

Do I need to rewrite everything?+

Not always. Not never. Treat ROCm as a port, not a checkbox. Budget time.

Keep comparing

Alternatives to AMD MI300X

Same job, different envelope. Compare VRAM, bandwidth and the hour before you lock a badge.

NVIDIA H200

141 GB HBM3e · 9% less bandwidth than the MI300X

From$3.00/ GPU / hr

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NVIDIA B200

180 GB HBM3e · 51% more bandwidth than the MI300X

From$3.75/ GPU / hr

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NVIDIA H100

80 GB HBM3 · 37% less bandwidth than the MI300X

From$1.73/ GPU / hr

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NVIDIA A100

80 GB HBM2e · 62% less bandwidth than the MI300X

From$1.19/ GPU / hr

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Sources

Where these numbers come from

TFLOPS and TDP are from the vendor datasheet. Hourly prices are from the GPUBeacon catalog sample. Open the originals, then confirm the live SKU with the provider before you rent.