The new Nvidia H100 Hopper GPU is much more expensive than its predecessor

Nvidia’s new H100 Hopper GPU was announced at the GPU Technology Conference 2022 (GTC 2022). The next generation GPU is manufactured on TSMC’s 4nm process and contains no less than 80 billion transistors. The GPU is now on sale and looks a bit more expensive than its predecessor.

A Japanese retailer offered a GPU for sale on their website for only 4,745,950 yen. He transferred about 36,550 dollars, or 34,663 euros. Includes value-added tax and shipping costs. The card itself costs 4,313,000 yen, or 31,500 euros. This is the PCI Express model with passive cooling for server attachments. Prices for other models have not yet appeared.

The Nvidia H100 is a data center GPU based on the latest Hopper architecture with 80 billion transistors on an 814 mm2 area. PCI Express 5.0 x16 version has 80 GB of HBM2e memory with a memory speed of 2 TB/s. The number of cuda cores is 14,592. There will also be an sxm variant on the market with 16,896 cores and faster HBM3 memory. The TDPs for both models are 350W and 700W, respectively.