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AMD Instinct MI300X vs NVIDIA L40S

Side-by-side specs

Straight from each vendor's datasheet. Winner in bold: higher throughput, memory, or transistor count; lower power draw or price. Sparse (2:4) throughput roughly doubles the FP8/INT8 numbers shown.

FieldAMD Instinct MI300XNVIDIA L40S
Process nodeTSMC N5 + N6 (chiplet)TSMC 4N
Transistors (B)15376.3
TDP750 W350 W
Memory192 GB HBM348 GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth5,300 GB/s864 GB/s
FP16 (dense)1,307 TFLOPS362 TFLOPS
BF16 (dense)1,307 TFLOPS362 TFLOPS
FP8 (dense)2,614 TFLOPS733 TFLOPS
INT8 (dense)2,614 TOPS733 TOPS
Launch price (list)$15,000—
Form factorOAMPCIe
Announced2023-12-062023-08-08
Released2024-01-01—

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Common questions

AMD Instinct MI300X vs NVIDIA L40S: which is faster for training?

AMD Instinct MI300X has 3.57x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (AMD Instinct MI300X: 2,614 TFLOPS; NVIDIA L40S: 733 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.

AMD Instinct MI300X vs NVIDIA L40S: which has more memory?

AMD Instinct MI300X carries more HBM (AMD Instinct MI300X: 192 GB HBM3; NVIDIA L40S: 48 GB GDDR6). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.

AMD Instinct MI300X vs NVIDIA L40S: which is more power-efficient?

Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: AMD Instinct MI300X 3.49 (2,614 ÷ 750 W); NVIDIA L40S 2.09 (733 ÷ 350 W). AMD Instinct MI300X wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.

See also: every chip comparison · AMD Instinct MI300X full page · NVIDIA L40S full page.