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For that price you get the H100. The machine is overpriced, and I'd personally rather go for a second-hand workstation with server-grade components.

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Hopper is ~4 years old at this point though, compared to Blackwell which is ~2 years old, the difference isn't nil.

Depending on your use case, you might prefer native FP4 and FP6 low-precision support and 5th-generation Tensor Cores rather than what Hopper offers.

I think for training Hopper makes sense as it's generally a bit cheaper and the difference isn't that big, but for inference the difference widens a bunch makes a lot more sense to go with Blackwell.

You're correct, the difference isn't nil - H100 is data-center grade GPU with loads of bandwidth and compute while RTX PRO is a consumer grade GPU. The difference between the microarchitectures would make sense to point out if we had been comparing apples to apples and not apples to pits.

I would assume an H100 selling for less than $30k is a scam. I see one for 11,329€, and one for $25k but most are over $30k and I don't know how to judge these random storefronts. You've bought an H100 for $20k that was in working order recently?

What kind of comment is that? No, I have not bought the h100 obviously, and, yes, you can buy the new one for 20k. Used one for even less.

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