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AMD Instinct MI355X vs Groq LPU

AMD Instinct MI355X (AMD) and Groq LPU (Groq) both sit in Chips & Compute. Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

Attribute	AMD Instinct MI355X AMD	Groq LPU Groq
Segment	Chips & Compute	Chips & Compute
Version	MI355X	GroqCloud API
Entry cost	Enterprise hardware, pricing not published	Pricing not published on current page. Custom/usage rates apply.
Pricing tiers	Open Source free	GroqCloud Console Free Tier / Pay-As-You-Go free
Model stack	CDNA · CDNA 4 · ROCm	canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi · canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english · kimi-k2-instruct-0905 · Llama / Kimi / GPT-OSS · Llama 3.1 8B Instant · Llama 3.3 70B Versatile · llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct · llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct · LPU v2 · meta-llama/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct · meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct · minimax-m2.5 · minimax/minimax-m2.5 · minimaxai/minimax-m2.5 · moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 · openai/gpt-oss-120b · openai/gpt-oss-20b · openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b · Orpheus English · orpheus-arabic-saudi · orpheus-v1-english · Qwen 3.6 27B · qwen/qwen3-32b · qwen/qwen3-vl-32b-instruct · qwen3-32b · qwen3-vl-32b-instruct · Whisper V3 Large · whisper-large-v3
Context window	—	131k
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d	3	3
Origin	Global	Global
Capabilities	288GB HBM3E, FP4/FP6 support, ROCm 7, open rack designs, DPX compute partition mode, CPX compute partition mode, NPS2 memory partitioning, GPU virtualization support	deterministic latency, OpenAI-compatible API, open-model catalogue, batch API, Fast LLM inference, OpenAI Compatibility, Prompt Caching, Speech to Text

AMD Instinct MI355X

288GB HBM3E accelerators with the ROCm software stack, used by several inference providers.

SRAM-based language processing units sold as a token-priced inference cloud.