Re:H100 GPUs Set Standard for Gen AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark
by jsjohnst on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @09:02AM
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An important thing to also keep in mind is how much inflation changed prices over the duration. $520k in 2023 dollars is around $420k in 2017 dollars. Sure, still almost 3x more expensive, but that’s better than being 0.7x higher.
An eight GPU DGX-1 server cost ~149k$ back then (googled news postings). A current gen DGX H100 is 520k$ with 5 years of support. Of course it holds 5x the memory, plus GPUs and interconnect are much faster. But when comparing costs, take price hikes into account.