Hopper
NVIDIA H100 80GB
wins
1
The NVIDIA H100 is the gold standard for AI training and inference. With 80GB HBM3 memory and NVLink 4.0 support, it dominates large-model training and multi-GPU clusters.
Blackwell
NVIDIA B200 180GB
wins
4
The B200 is NVIDIA's Blackwell flagship — 4.5 PFLOPS FP16 and 8 TB/s memory bandwidth make it the most powerful GPU available for AI training at scale.
Performance comparison
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NVIDIA H100 80GB
Metric
NVIDIA B200 180GB
FP16 TFLOPS
Bandwidth
VRAM
TDP (lower=better)
TFLOPS/watt
GB/s per watt
Full specification table
| Spec | NVIDIA H100 80GB | NVIDIA B200 180GB |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Hopper | Blackwell |
| VRAM | 80 GB HBM3 | 180 GB HBM3e |
| VRAM type | HBM3 | HBM3e |
| Memory bandwidth | 3,350 GB/s | 8,000 GB/s |
| FP16 TFLOPS | 989 TFLOPS | 4,500 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 700 W | 1,000 W |
| TFLOPS/watt | 1.41 T/W | 4.50 T/W |
| GB/s per watt | 4.79 GB/s/W | 8.00 GB/s/W |
| NVLink | Yes | Yes |
| Release year | 2022 | 2024 |
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Power efficiency analysis
TFLOPS/watt and GB/s/watt — critical for data center TCO
NVIDIA H100 80GB
NVIDIA B200 180GB
TFLOPS/watt measures compute efficiency — how much AI throughput you get per watt of power consumed. For data centers with PUE of 1.2–1.5, a 10% improvement in TFLOPS/watt translates directly to lower electricity costs and cooling requirements. GB/s/watt measures memory bandwidth efficiency, which is the binding constraint for memory-bound LLM inference workloads.
When to choose each GPU
Choose NVIDIA H100 80GB for:
- LLM training
- Large-scale inference
- HPC workloads
Choose NVIDIA B200 180GB for:
- Next-gen LLM training
- Trillion-parameter models
- AI factories
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