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GPU comparison

B300 vs RTX 3090.

The B300 is ahead on memory (288 GB vs 24 GB) and speed (31.7x the FP16 throughput and up to 8.5x the memory bandwidth). The RTX 3090 makes sense when your model fits in 24 GB and its hourly price is lower.

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Live hourly price, then per GB of memory and per 100 FP16 TFLOPS.

Which is better for

Which to pick for each job. Memory fit and throughput, from the datasheets.

  • Hold a 70B model in 8-bit weights

    70 GB of 8-bit weights

    B300: 1 GPU, 218 GB spare

    RTX 3090: 4 GPUs, more than one 2x node

    B300. Fits on one GPU.

  • Serve an 8B model in 16-bit weights

    16 GB of 16-bit weights

    B300: 1 GPU, 272 GB spare

    RTX 3090: 1 GPU, 8 GB spare

    B300. Same GPU count, up to 8.5x the memory bandwidth.

  • Fine-tune a 70B model with QLoRA

    About 46 GB with 4-bit weights

    B300: 1 GPU, 242 GB spare

    RTX 3090: 2 GPUs (48 GB)

    B300. Fits on one GPU.

  • Train on a full node

    FP16 tensor throughput per node

    B300: 8x, 18,000 TFLOPS, NVLink

    RTX 3090: 2x, 142 TFLOPS, NVLink

    B300. 8 GPUs per node, not 2.

  • Throughput per watt

    FP16 TFLOPS per 100 W of TDP

    B300: Varies by card

    RTX 3090: 20 TFLOPS per 100 W

    Either. Varies by card.

Compare another pair

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Blackwell

NVIDIA B300

from$11.05/hr
Available now · 1 region
Memory
288 GB HBM3e
FP16 tensor
2250 TFLOPS
Bandwidth
up to 8.0 TB/s
Full pricing details

Ampere

NVIDIA RTX 3090

Not in stock right now
Memory
24 GB GDDR6X
FP16 tensor
71 TFLOPS
Bandwidth
936 GB/s
Full pricing details

At a glance

Spec by spec. The longer bar is the better number.

Memory

NVIDIA B300288 GB
NVIDIA RTX 309024 GB

Memory bandwidth

NVIDIA B300up to 8.0 TB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3090936 GB/s

FP16 tensor

NVIDIA B3002250 TFLOPS
NVIDIA RTX 309071 TFLOPS

FP32

NVIDIA B30075 TFLOPS
NVIDIA RTX 309035.6 TFLOPS

Full specs

The complete spec sheet.

SpecNVIDIA B300NVIDIA RTX 3090
ArchitectureBlackwellAmpere
Memory288 GB24 GB
Memory typeHBM3eGDDR6X
Memory bandwidthup to 8.0 TB/s936 GB/s
FP3275 TFLOPS35.6 TFLOPS
FP16 tensor2250 TFLOPS71 TFLOPS
INT8187.5 TOPS284 TOPS
TDPup to 1400 W350 W
Form factorSXMConsumer
NVLinkYesYes
GPUs per node82
Hourly price (live)from $11.05/hrNot in stock right now

Questions

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