WHAT THIS CARD IS WORTH
Instinct MI250X holds 397 of the models in our catalogue and is, in practice, a IQ4_XS card — the largest it takes is Step 3.7 Flash at IQ4_XS.
TOKENS/SEC PER $100
3.5
8B at Q4_K_M, so cards compare like for like
VRAM PER $100
1.28 GB
what memory costs on this card
THE BIGGEST IT TAKES
AGAINST CARDS OF SIMILAR MEMORY
Instinct MI250X128 GB$10,0003.5 tok/s per $100
Neighbours in memory rather than in price: memory decides whether a card can do the job at all, so two cards of the same size at different prices is the comparison you are making. Ordered by memory, then bandwidth — not by the value column, which is worked out from bandwidth and price alone and therefore rewards a cheap card whatever its software stack does to that bandwidth in practice. Read it as one input, not as a ranking.
▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST
AMD Instinct MI250X — 128 GB VRAM.
▸ INSTINCT MI250X SPEC
- BRAND
- AMD
- VRAM
- 128 GB HBM2e
- BANDWIDTH
- 3277 GB/s
- FP16 COMPUTE
- 383 TFLOPS
- FP32 COMPUTE
- 47.9 TFLOPS
- TDP
- 560 W
- ARCHITECTURE
- CDNA2
- MSRP
- $10000
▸ AI CAPABILITY
397/ 449 models @ Q4
With 128 GB VRAM and 3277 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 180B parameters.
Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~375 tok/s.
RENT IT — LIVE PRICES
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§ 01TOP MODELS FOR INSTINCT MI250X
397 FIT · SHOWING 20| MODEL | SIZE | VRAM Q4 | TOK/S | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon 180B | 180B | 110.5 GB | 16 | 51.3 |
| bloom 176.2B | 176.2B | 108.2 GB | 17 | 15.0 |
| dots.llm1.inst 142.8B | 142.8B | 87.8 GB | 20 | — |
| WizardLM 2 8x22B | 141B | 86.7 GB | 75 | 42.4 |
| Mixtral-8x22B | 140.6B | 86.4 GB | 74 | 31.9 |
| DBRX 132B | 132B | 81.2 GB | 81 | 46.3 |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | 128B | 78.7 GB | 23 | 46.6 |
| Pixtral Large 124B | 124B | 76.3 GB | 23 | 39.3 |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | 123.61B | 76.0 GB | 243 | 53.2 |
| Mistral-Large 123B | 123B | 75.7 GB | 24 | 33.5 |
| Devstral 2 123B | 123B | 75.7 GB | 24 | 38.1 |
| Qwen 3.5 122B A10B | 122B | 75.1 GB | 291 | 56.8 |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B | 120B | 73.8 GB | 243 | 57.3 |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | 119B | 73.2 GB | 448 | 50.2 |
| GPT-OSS 120B | 117B | 72.0 GB | 571 | 54.1 |
| Command A 111B | 111B | 68.3 GB | 26 | 27.6 |
| GLM 4.5 Air | 110B | 67.7 GB | 243 | 51.0 |
| Qwen 1.5 110B | 110B | 67.7 GB | 26 | 33.4 |
| Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E | 109B | 67.1 GB | 171 | 33.9 |
| Cogito v2 109B MoE | 109B | 67.1 GB | 171 | — |