TL;DR

Linus finally got his hands on Nvidia’s ultra-expensive H200 AI/HPC card (even though Nvidia wouldn’t send it to him) and proceeded to rip it open “for science.” Over the course of the video he unboxes and tears down the $30K card, then pits it head-to-head against a dual-Epyc 9965 setup and the upcoming RTX 5090 in a series of compute and generative AI benchmarks.

Spoiler: the H200’s sheer raw performance is mind-blowing for AI workloads, but when you factor in price, power draw, and real-world use cases, Linus breaks down whether it really lives up to the “holy $H!T” hype.

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