COMPARE / H100 NVL VS H100 PCIE
H100 NVL vs H100 PCIe
Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed hourly. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.
CHEAPEST H100 NVL
$0.790/hr
SpotGPUs · median $8.72 · 7 providers
CHEAPEST H100 PCIE
$0.690/hr
SpotGPUs · median $2.73 · 13 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
H100 PCIe
live panel, 2026-09-27
| H100 NVL | H100 PCIE | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Hopper | Hopper |
| LAUNCHED | 2023 | 2022 |
| MEMORY | 94 GB HBM3 per GPU | 80 GB HBM2e |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 3.9 TB/s | 2.0 TB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 835 TFLOPS FP16/BF16 tensor dense (1,671 sparse); FP8 1,671 dense | 756 TFLOPS FP16/BF16 tensor dense (1,513 sparse); 1,513 TFLOPS FP8 dense |
| POWER DRAW | 350-400 W | 350 W |
| INTERCONNECT | NVLink bridge 600 GB/s between the pair | PCIe 5.0 x16 (NVLink bridge up to 600 GB/s) |
HOW TO CHOOSE
H100 NVL vs H100 PCIe
NVL adds memory (94 vs 80 GB), bandwidth (3.9 vs 2.0 TB/s) and a real bridge. For inference the NVL wins; it costs more.
H100 PCIe vs H100 NVL
NVL adds 14 GB of faster HBM3 per card and a factory NVLink bridge, aimed squarely at inference. For serving, NVL is the better PCIe-family pick.
Workload fit
H100 NVL: 70b-class serving, long-context inference, fine-tuning. H100 PCIe: inference, fine-tuning.
H100 NVL VS H100 PCIE - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, H100 NVL or H100 PCIe?
By today's published on-demand rates: H100 NVL starts at $0.790/GPU/hr (median $8.72, 7 providers) and H100 PCIe starts at $0.690/GPU/hr (median $2.73, 13 providers). The cheapest live listing is the H100 PCIe at SpotGPUs. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
H100 NVL or H100 PCIe - which should I rent?
H100 NVL: The H100 NVL is Hopper tuned for inference: 94 GB of fast HBM3 per card - the most memory of any H100 variant - sold as a bridge-linked PCIe pair. H100 PCIe: The H100 PCIe puts Hopper's Transformer Engine into standard servers at half the SXM power budget. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent H100 NVL and H100 PCIe?
7 providers publish H100 NVL rates and 13 publish H100 PCIe rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
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