Summary

Linus dives into NVIDIA’s $30K H200 generative AI/HPC card, ripping it apart for a full teardown and putting it head-to-head against dual Epyc 9965 CPUs and the new RTX 5090. Spoiler: the H200 delivers insane compute horsepower, but at a sky-high price.

After a close-up teardown (chips, cooling and all), he runs benchmarks to see if it really justifies that sticker shock. If you’ve ever wondered what that kind of GPU can actually do—or why NVIDIA even calls it a “graphics card”—this video’s got the answers (and some holy-$H!T moments).

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