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H100

NVIDIA's Hopper-generation data-center GPU; the chip behind most of the 2023–2024 buildout wave and the baseline many density and power comparisons start from.

Current numbers

~$16–27kused H100 secondary price by form factor (PCIe ~$16–20k; SXM5 ~$22–27k); no reliable age-stratified curve publishedas of Q1 2026 · register ↗
Measure resume, model-ready and TTFT separatelyserverless GPU time-to-first-token (H100): warm-pool vs scale-from-zero; snapshots claim ~10x cold-start gainsas of 2026-08-24 · register ↗
80 → 288 GB → ~1 TBHBM capacity per accelerator package: H100 80 GB; B200 180 GB; B300 288 GB (HBM3E); Rubin Ultra ~1 TB HBM4E on a four-chiplet package (roadmap)as of 2026-08 (roadmap in flux) · register ↗

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