GPU & Accelerator Comparisons
Side-by-side comparisons of 23 GPU and AI accelerator pairs. Live blended pricing across spot, on-demand, and reserved instances. Updated daily.
Head-to-head comparisons of GPUs designed for AI model training and HPC workloads
Hopper vs Ampere — the generational leap
Same compute, 76% more memory
Hopper vs Blackwell — current vs next generation
Same compute, double the memory
Two-generation leap — Blackwell vs Ampere
Memory-optimised Hopper vs Blackwell
Top-end Blackwell vs the industry workhorse
Legacy upgrade path — Volta to Ampere
Blackwell superchip vs standalone GPU
Top-end Blackwell variants
Comparisons of cost-efficient GPUs optimised for deploying AI models in production
Budget inference — Turing vs Ada Lovelace
Mid-tier inference — Ada Lovelace vs Ampere
Inference-optimised vs training-class
Training powerhouse vs inference specialist
Inference tier — Ada Lovelace vs Ampere
NVIDIA vs AMD and other cross-vendor comparisons
Cloud-native AI chips — TPUs, Trainium, Inferentia — compared with GPUs
Custom cloud silicon vs the GPU standard
Google's training TPU vs NVIDIA's GPU standard
Google's current vs next-gen TPU
Google's latest TPU vs NVIDIA's GPU standard
AWS's next-gen custom silicon vs NVIDIA
AWS custom inference chip vs NVIDIA's budget GPU
How to Choose the Right GPU
Selecting the right cloud GPU depends on your workload type, budget, and scale. Training workloads — where models learn from data — require high compute throughput and large memory capacity. GPUs like the H100, B200, and MI300X are designed for this. Inference workloads — where trained models serve predictions — prioritise cost efficiency and latency. GPUs like the T4, L4, and L40S excel here.
Cross-vendor comparisons are increasingly relevant as AMD's MI300X and cloud-native accelerators like Google TPUs and AWS Trainium challenge NVIDIA's dominance. While NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem remains the most mature, alternatives can offer significant cost savings for supported workloads.
The blended pricing shown in our comparisons averages across spot, on-demand, and reserved pricing tiers from major cloud providers. This gives a realistic view of actual costs rather than best-case spot pricing that may not always be available.
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