NVIDIA B200 Blackwell vs NVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra

Side-by-side comparison of NVIDIA B200 Blackwell (192 GB VRAM, 8.0 TB/s) and NVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra (288 GB VRAM, 9.0 TB/s). Compare specs, compute throughput, and workload sizing for LLM inference.

Decision Summary

SpecNVIDIA B200 BlackwellNVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra
VRAM192GB HBM3e288GB HBM3e
Memory Bandwidth8.0 TB/s9.0 TB/s
FP8 TFLOPS2,2502,500
FP16 TFLOPS1,1251,250
InterconnectNVLink 5.0 (1.8 TB/s)NVLink 5.0 (1.8 TB/s)
TDP1000W1200W
Recommended QuantizationFP4 / FP8 native โ€” FP4 cuts memory 50% with <5% quality lossFP4 / FP8 / BF16 โ€” all precisions native, no quality tradeoff

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Cloud Provider Pricing

Current spot and on-demand rates across providers for NVIDIA B200 Blackwell and NVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra.

ProviderGPU & VRAMInterconnectSpot Price ($/hr)On-Demand ($/hr)Monthly ($/720h)StatusAction
Community
NVLink 5.0 (1.8 TB/s)$3.99/hr
Calculated EstimateMEDIUM
SourceVast.ai
VerifiedSep 26, 2026
Value
3.99 /hr
Methodology

No distinct spot listing โ€” the provider's listed hourly (on-demand) rate is surfaced as the tracked rate.

Assumptions & Parameters
  • note: Spot rates fluctuate with capacity
Refreshed daily from provider APIs and market scrapingSep 26, 2026
$3.99 / hr$2,442 / moInstant
Bare Metal
NVLink 5.0 (1.8 TB/s)$4.49/hr
Calculated EstimateMEDIUM
SourceSpheron
VerifiedSep 26, 2026
Value
4.49 /hr
Methodology

No distinct spot listing โ€” the provider's listed hourly (on-demand) rate is surfaced as the tracked rate.

Assumptions & Parameters
  • note: Spot rates fluctuate with capacity
Refreshed daily from provider APIs and market scrapingSep 26, 2026
$4.49 / hr$2,748 / moInstant
Dedicated
NVLink 5.0 (1.8 TB/s)$5.49/hr
Calculated EstimateMEDIUM
SourceLambda Labs
VerifiedSep 26, 2026
Value
5.49 /hr
Methodology

No distinct spot listing โ€” the provider's listed hourly (on-demand) rate is surfaced as the tracked rate.

Assumptions & Parameters
  • note: Spot rates fluctuate with capacity
Refreshed daily from provider APIs and market scrapingSep 26, 2026
$5.49 / hr$3,360 / moInstant
Cloud
NVLink 5.0 (1.8 TB/s)$5.99/hr
Calculated EstimateMEDIUM
SourceRunPod
VerifiedSep 26, 2026
Value
5.99 /hr
Methodology

No distinct spot listing โ€” the provider's listed hourly (on-demand) rate is surfaced as the tracked rate.

Assumptions & Parameters
  • note: Spot rates fluctuate with capacity
Refreshed daily from provider APIs and market scrapingSep 26, 2026
$5.99 / hr$3,666 / moInstant
On-demand and monthly figures are the providers' listed rates (monthly = listed rate, else hourly ร— 720h). Rows without a tracked rate show โ€”. All rates subject to preemption and provider availability.
Data Freshness: Public Cloud APIs & Market Scraping | Refreshed Daily (UTC)Benchmark Baseline: Ubuntu 24.04, CUDA 12.4, vLLM v0.6.x, PagedAttention v2, FlashAttention-3

Prices verified daily from Spheron, RunPod, Vast.ai, and Lambda Labs APIs.

Microarchitecture & Interconnect

NVIDIA B200 Blackwell
ArchitectureBlackwell GB200
Process Node4NP TSMC
FP8 TFLOPS2,250
FP16 TFLOPS1,125
Compute BoundMemory-bandwidth bound at large batch; compute-bound at small batch with FP8/BF16
Recommended Topology8-way NVLink 5.0 Full Mesh (1.8 TB/s per GPU)
Recommended Quantization: FP4 / FP8 native โ€” FP4 cuts memory 50% with <5% quality loss
NVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra
ArchitectureBlackwell Ultra GB300
Process Node4NP TSMC
FP8 TFLOPS2,500
FP16 TFLOPS1,250
Compute BoundCompute-bound at small batch with FP8/BF16; memory-bound for frontier parameter counts
Recommended Topology8-way NVLink 5.0 Full Mesh, multi-node via NVLink-C2C
Recommended Quantization: FP4 / FP8 / BF16 โ€” all precisions native, no quality tradeoff

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Data Freshness: Verified via Public Cloud APIs & Market Scraping | Refreshed Daily (UTC)Benchmark Baseline: Ubuntu 24.04, CUDA 12.4, vLLM v0.6.x (PagedAttention v2, FlashAttention-3), BF16/FP8 weights.
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