Summary
Linus somehow snagged Nvidia’s monstrous $30,000 H200 AI/HPC card (which Nvidia “wouldn’t send” him), tore it down for science, and walked us through its insane specs. After the teardown, he pits the H200 against a dual AMD Epyc 9965 setup and even an RTX 5090, running real-world AI and compute benchmarks to see if it truly justifies its eye-watering price.
The verdict? The H200 flexes serious generative-AI muscle—smoking CPUs and outpunching consumer GPUs in specialized tasks—but comes at a huge premium. If you need top-tier AI performance and can swallow the cost, it’s a beast; otherwise, there are more wallet-friendly options that still pack plenty of punch.
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