Chip comparison
AMD Instinct MI300X vs SambaNova SN40L
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.
| Field | AMD Instinct MI300X | SambaNova SN40L |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | TSMC N5 + N6 (chiplet) | TSMC N5 |
| Transistors (B) | 153 | — |
| TDP | 750 W | 700 W |
| Memory | 192 GB HBM3 | 1500 GB DDR5 (three-tier: 64 MB SRAM + 64 GB HBM3 + 1.5 TB DDR5) |
| Memory bandwidth | 5,300 GB/s | — |
| FP16 (dense) | 1,307 TFLOPS | 638 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 1,307 TFLOPS | — |
| FP8 (dense) | 2,614 TFLOPS | 1,250 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 2,614 TOPS | — |
| Launch price (list) | $15,000 | — |
| Form factor | OAM | PCIe (SN40L DataScale system) |
| Announced | 2023-12-06 | 2023-09-19 |
| Released | 2024-01-01 | 2024-01-01 |
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Common questions
AMD Instinct MI300X vs SambaNova SN40L: which is faster for training?
AMD Instinct MI300X has 2.09x the dense FP8 throughput of the other (AMD Instinct MI300X: 2,614 TFLOPS; SambaNova SN40L: 1,250 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 SambaNova SN40L: which has more memory?
SambaNova SN40L carries more HBM (AMD Instinct MI300X: 192 GB HBM3; SambaNova SN40L: 1500 GB DDR5 (three-tier: 64 MB SRAM + 64 GB HBM3 + 1.5 TB DDR5)). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
AMD Instinct MI300X vs SambaNova SN40L: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP8 TFLOPS per watt: AMD Instinct MI300X 3.49 (2,614 ÷ 750 W); SambaNova SN40L 1.79 (1,250 ÷ 700 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 · SambaNova SN40L full page.