02Hardware

AI accelerator specs

The chips doing the thinking. Every accelerator that matters — specs normalized to dense FLOPS so vendors’ sparsity-inflated headlines compare honestly, plus what a FLOP actually rents for.

Chips announced but not yet in this table, with each one’s stated availability, are on the accelerator roadmap.

What a PFLOP-hour rents for

Lowest specialist-cloud on-demand list price ÷ dense BF16 throughput

Price-per-PFLOP chart awaiting interactive loadStatic chart frame · exact values in table view

Rental quotes as of Oct 2026, compared as the chip pages compare them; dense BF16 (FP32 accumulate) from vendor specs. GB200 row uses per-GPU rack pricing.

Exact values for What a PFLOP-hour rents for
What a PFLOP-hour rents for — exact values in tabular form
Chip$/PFLOP·hrRental $/hrDense BF16
H100$2.01$1.99989 TF
MI300X$2.64$3.451,307 TF
B200$2.67$6.002,250 TF
L40S$3.01$1.09362.05 TF
B300$3.29$7.402,250 TF
H200$4.03$3.99989 TF
GB200 NVL72$4.20$10.502,500 TF
A100 80GB$4.33$1.35312 TF
RTX 4090$5.39$0.89165.2 TF
RTX 5090$5.68$1.19209.5 TF

The memory-bandwidth race

HBM bandwidth by launch date

Memory-bandwidth chart awaiting interactive loadStatic chart frame · exact values in table view

Vendor spec sheets; HBM parts only (L40S, GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 5090 use GDDR and are not plotted). Launch months are estimates of first availability.

Memory cost context

Public $/GB estimate points — memory estimates through Jun 2026

Memory-price context chart awaiting interactive loadStatic chart frame · exact values in table view

Context estimates, not an index: sparse points compiled from public press summaries of TrendForce/DRAMeXchange data and analyst compilations — never interpolated, and the two series (contract HBM3e vs spot DDR5 per-chip conversions) are not comparable to each other.

Energy-cost floor

Static estimate · EIA data through May 2026

≥$0.05/GPU·hr (est)B200 (HGX) · electricity alone

≥$0.07/GPU·hr (est)Instinct MI355X · electricity alone

Electricity alone sets a floor under the rent: ≥$0.05/GPU·hr for B200 (HGX) and ≥$0.07/GPU·hr for Instinct MI355X — TDP (1 kW / 1.4 kW) × PUE 1.2 × $0.0445/kWh industrial power in New Mexico, the cheapest tracked-cluster state (EIA ELEC.PRICE.NM-IND.M, est). A lower bound: assumes full-TDP draw for the rented hour and excludes capital, cooling capex, networking, and margin.