Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.

Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.

Rig A

NVIDIA · accelerator

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Rig B

AMD · accelerator

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Spec	NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper	AMD Instinct MI355X
Bf16 Matrix Pflops Dense	—	2.5
Bf16 Matrix Pflops Sparse	—	5
Compute Units	—	256
Cooling	—	direct liquid cooling (air-cooled option available)
Form factor	—	OAM
Fp16 Matrix Pflops Dense	—	2.5
Fp16 Matrix Pflops Sparse	—	5
Fp32 Vector Tflops	—	157.3
Fp64 Matrix Tflops	—	78.6
FP8 Matrix Pflops Dense	—	5
FP8 Matrix Pflops Sparse	—	10.1
Grace CPU Arch	Arm Neoverse V2	—
Grace CPU Cores	72	—
HBM (GB)	—	288
HBM GB Hbm3	96	—
HBM GB Hbm3e	144	—
HBM Type	—	HBM3E
Hbm3e Bandwidth TB S	4.9	—
Helios Gpus PER Rack	—	72
Lpddr5x GB MAX	480	—
Memory bandwidth (TB/s)	—	8
Mxfp4 Matrix Pflops	—	10.1
Mxfp6 Matrix Pflops	—	10.1
Nvl2 AI Petaflops	8	—
Nvl2 Combined Bandwidth TB S	10	—
Nvl2 Total Hbm3e GB	282	—
Nvl2 Total Memory TB	1.2	—
Nvlink C2C Bandwidth GB S	900	—
Pcie GEN	—	5
Process Node NM	—	3
Successor Cdna Version	—	5
Successor Family	—	AMD Instinct MI400 Series (MI455X)
Successor Launch	—	2026-07-23
Successor Mi455x Bandwidth TB S	—	23.3
Successor Mi455x Hbm4 GB	—	432
TBP Watts	—	1,400
TDP Watts MAX Unverified	1,000	—