What's the price difference between NVIDIA B300 and NVIDIA V100?

On Runcrate today, NVIDIA B300 starts at $10.40/hr and NVIDIA V100 starts at $0.36/hr; NVIDIA V100 is cheaper by 97%.

Can I deploy NVIDIA B300 or NVIDIA V100 on Runcrate today?

NVIDIA B300 is on demand in 1 region from $10.40/hr, billed by the second on most GPUs. NVIDIA V100 is on demand in 2 regions from $0.36/hr, billed by the second on most GPUs.

How much VRAM does each GPU have?

NVIDIA B300 has 288GB HBM3e. NVIDIA V100 has 32GB HBM2.

B300 or V100: which holds a 70B model in 8-bit weights?

It needs 70 GB of 8-bit weights. On the B300: 1 GPU, 218 GB spare. On the V100: 3 GPUs (96 GB). Pick the B300: fits on one GPU.

GPU comparison

B300 vs V100.

The B300 is ahead on memory (288 GB vs 32 GB) and speed (18.0x the FP16 throughput and up to 8.9x the memory bandwidth). The V100 makes sense when your model fits in 32 GB and its hourly price is lower.

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B300from $10.40/hr
$0.036 per GB/hr$0.46 per 100 TFLOPS/hr
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V100Cheaperfrom $0.36/hr
$0.011 per GB/hr$0.29 per 100 TFLOPS/hr
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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.

JobB300V100Pick

Hold a 70B model in 8-bit weights
70 GB of 8-bit weights
B300: 1 GPU, 218 GB spare
V100: 3 GPUs (96 GB)
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
V100: 1 GPU, 16 GB spare
B300. Same GPU count, up to 8.9x the memory bandwidth.
Fine-tune a 70B model with QLoRA
About 46 GB with 4-bit weights
B300: 1 GPU, 242 GB spare
V100: 2 GPUs (64 GB)
B300. Fits on one GPU.
Train on a full node
FP16 tensor throughput per node
B300: 8x, 18,000 TFLOPS, NVLink
V100: 8x, 1,000 TFLOPS, NVLink
B300. 18.0x the FP16 throughput per GPU.
Throughput per watt
FP16 TFLOPS per 100 W of TDP
B300: Varies by card
V100: 42 TFLOPS per 100 W
Either. Varies by card.

Compare another pair

Blackwell

NVIDIA B300

from$10.40/hr

Available now · 1 region

Memory: 288 GB HBM3e
FP16 tensor: 2250 TFLOPS
Bandwidth: up to 8.0 TB/s

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Volta

NVIDIA V100

from$0.36/hrCheaper

Available now · 2 regions

Memory: 32 GB HBM2
FP16 tensor: 125 TFLOPS
Bandwidth: 900 GB/s

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At a glance

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

Memory

NVIDIA B300288 GB

NVIDIA V10032 GB

Memory bandwidth

NVIDIA B300up to 8.0 TB/s

NVIDIA V100900 GB/s

FP16 tensor

NVIDIA B3002250 TFLOPS

NVIDIA V100125 TFLOPS

Hourly price, from (live)

NVIDIA B300$10.40/hr

NVIDIA V100$0.36/hr

Full specs

The complete spec sheet.

Spec	NVIDIA B300	NVIDIA V100
Architecture	Blackwell	Volta
Memory	288 GB	32 GB
Memory type	HBM3e	HBM2
Memory bandwidth	up to 8.0 TB/s	900 GB/s
FP32	75 TFLOPS	15.7 TFLOPS
FP16 tensor	2250 TFLOPS	125 TFLOPS
INT8	187.5 TOPS	125 TOPS
TDP	up to 1400 W	300 W
Form factor	SXM	PCIe
NVLink	Yes	Yes
GPUs per node	8	8
Hourly price (live)	from $10.40/hr	from $0.36/hr

Questions

B300 or V100. What buyers ask first.

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