NVIDIA Announces Hopper Architecture and H100 GPU: TSMC N4 Process, HBM3 Memory, PCIe Gen5, and 700-Watt TDP (SXM)

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Is it hot in here, or is it just me? NVIDIA has announced its first GPU based on the new Hopper graphics architecture, the H100, and its specifications sheet is absolutely wild.

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priced at “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it “
 
It's a enterprise card for virtualization probably 12 k entry level.
 
Riccochet said:
Yeah this is not meant for home use. And $12k is generous. lol
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12 K is for the cheap version. I looked at building out some vmware hosts with these and they were recommending 4 cards per host for like 60k+ per host. It was bonkers. Makes the laptops we would have seem cheap... if you figure 9 hosts... at 60k per.. is that cheaper than 2000 laptops? hummm... (not entire company just a subset.) 560k just to give accerlated VDI's. Or.. 1200 per for 2000 laptops. Yea cheaper to do the hosts... lol. But it FEELS more expensive.
 
Grimlakin said:
12 K is for the cheap version. I looked at building out some vmware hosts with these and they were recommending 4 cards per host for like 60k+ per host. It was bonkers. Makes the laptops we would have seem cheap... if you figure 9 hosts... at 60k per.. is that cheaper than 2000 laptops? hummm... (not entire company just a subset.) 560k just to give accerlated VDI's. Or.. 1200 per for 2000 laptops. Yea cheaper to do the hosts... lol. But it FEELS more expensive.
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Unless I had a team of engineers that needed that kind of processing power I can't see using these for VDI. We have a stack of Tesla cards in a few hosts designated for processing super high resolution medical imaging systems. I want to say they were something like $25k each.
 
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