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Qualcomm AI250 vs Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra

Side-by-side specifications, performance, and rental pricing for datacenter AI workloads.

AI250: Dragonfly, 2027 Cloud AI 100 Ultra: Cloud AI 100, 2023
Memory
768 vs 128 GB
640 GB more for the AI250
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Qualcomm AI250 vs Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra

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Qualcomm AI250

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What is the Qualcomm AI250?

The AI250 is an ASIC from Qualcomm on the Dragonfly architecture, an accelerator built for AI workloads. It has been announced but is not yet shipping. AI250 full specifications →

Can I rent the AI250 in the cloud?

Flopper is not tracking any live rental listings for the AI250 yet. The provider directory lists the clouds that rent comparable accelerators on demand. GPU cloud providers →

How does the AI250 compare with other accelerators?

This page sets the AI250 against the Cloud AI 100 Ultra. The AI250 is the newer generation of the two. Both are Qualcomm parts. The compare tool builds the same comparison for any two parts in the catalogue. All GPU comparisons →

Where do the AI250 figures come from?

Qualcomm published the AI250 figures in marketing material rather than a datasheet, and Flopper has no independent confirmation of them. How Flopper verifies specifications →

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Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra

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What is the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra?

The Cloud AI 100 Ultra is an ASIC from Qualcomm on the Cloud AI 100 architecture, an accelerator built for AI workloads. It is a PCIe add-in card, so it fits standard servers and workstations. Cloud AI 100 Ultra full specifications →

Can I rent the Cloud AI 100 Ultra in the cloud?

Flopper is not tracking any live rental listings for the Cloud AI 100 Ultra yet. The provider directory lists the clouds that rent comparable accelerators on demand. GPU cloud providers →

How does the Cloud AI 100 Ultra compare with other accelerators?

This page sets the Cloud AI 100 Ultra against the AI250. The Cloud AI 100 Ultra is the older generation of the two. Both are Qualcomm parts. The compare tool builds the same comparison for any two parts in the catalogue. All GPU comparisons →

Where do the Cloud AI 100 Ultra figures come from?

Every Cloud AI 100 Ultra figure on this page traces to Qualcomm's own datasheet or specification table. How Flopper verifies specifications →

Specifications

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AI250
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Cloud AI 100 Ultra
Architecture
DragonflyCloud AI 100
Launch Year
20272023
Form Factor
—PCIe
Memory
768 GB128 GB
Memory Bandwidth
—548 GB/s
TDP
—150 W
Process Node
—7nm

Performance (TFLOPS)

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FLOPS by Precision

What actually differs

The AI250 is the newer part: Dragonfly (2027) against the Cloud AI 100 Ultra's Cloud AI 100 (2023).

The AI250 carries 640 GB more memory (768 GB against 128 GB), so larger models fit on one GPU before you shard.

Weight the FP8 and FP16 rows for LLM work and the FP64 row for HPC.

New to the terms? The glossary explains INT8, Sparsity and TFLOPS.

Frequently asked questions

Which should you choose, the AI250 or the Cloud AI 100 Ultra?

Choose the AI250 when the model has to fit on one GPU: it carries 640 GB more memory.

Which has more memory, the AI250 or the Cloud AI 100 Ultra?

The AI250 carries 768 GB of memory versus 128 GB for the Cloud AI 100 Ultra.

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