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Morgan Stanley bill-of-materials estimate per rack: Vera Rubin VR200 NVL72 vs GB300 NVL72

~$7.8M vs ~$4.0M per rackestimate

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ScopeAnalyst component BOM ($7,803,148 VR200 vs $3,994,600 GB300, about +95%); excludes facility, networking beyond the rack, storage, software and integration margin. Not a list or contract price; NVIDIA publishes no list price. The Morgan Stanley report labels VR200 inconsistently as NVL72 and NVL144.
As ofMay 2026
SourceMorgan Stanley Research (May 2026), as reported by PC Gamer (22 May 2026); the note itself is client-only · PC Gamer article text: $7,803,148 VR200 NVL72 rack, $2,001,600 of it memory. Tom's Hardware article text: VR200 NVL72 around $7.8M vs about $4M per GB300 NVL72 (Tom's sourced the note via an X post by @Aaronwei3n). The exact $3,994,600 GB300 total appears in the Morgan Stanley table image PC Gamer embeds.
Reviewchecking…review by 2027-02-01 · fast cadence
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