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NVIDIA H800 80GB

Hopper DatacenterDatacenterHopperSXMCUDA
80GB
VRAM
3kGB/s
Bandwidth
900TFLOPS
FP16 Compute
1.8kTOPS
INT8 Inference
$30,000 MSRP
VRAM80 GBBandwidth3k GB/sCompute900 TFInference1.8k TOPSValue3 TF/$k
NVIDIA H800 80GBCategory AvgMac Studio M2 Ultra 128GB

Operating mode

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Current mode

Balanced

Balanced for general local use. Keeps the ranking neutral across personal and serving workflows.

About this GPU for AI

La NVIDIA H800 es la variante de la H100 conforme a exportaciones a China, manteniendo la capacidad de cómputo Hopper completa — 80 GB HBM3 y Transformer Engine con FP8 — pero con el ancho de banda NVLink reducido a aproximadamente 400 GB/s (frente a los 900 GB/s de la H100) y el rendimiento FP64 limitado a 1 TFLOPS. Para inferencia LLM de una sola GPU, el rendimiento de la H800 es esencialmente idéntico al de la H100 SXM.

Beyond LLMs

AI Capability Matrix

What AI tasks this GPU can handle — from text generation to image and video creation.

CapabilityStatusRepresentative Model
LLM Chat (7B)Runs nativelyLlama 3.1 8B Q4
LLM Coding (30B)Runs nativelyQwen 3 30B Q4
LLM Large (70B)Runs nativelyLlama 3.1 70B Q4
Image Gen (SDXL)Runs nativelySDXL 1.0 FP16
Image Gen (Flux)Runs nativelyFlux.1 Dev FP16
Image Gen (SD 3.5)Runs nativelySD 3.5 Large FP16
Video Short (25f)Runs nativelyLTX Video 2B
Video Long (100f)Runs with offloadWan Video 14B
hbm-memorymassive-vramexport-regulatedhigh-bandwidth

Especificaciones

Cómputo
FP16900 TFLOPS
INT81800 TOPS
ArquitecturaHopper
Memoria
VRAM80 GB
Ancho de banda3000 GB/s
General
FamiliaHopper Datacenter
SegmentoDatacenter
InterconexiónSXM
Plataforma de cómputoCUDA
MSRP$30,000

Características clave

80 GB HBM3 — 3,000 GB/s bandwidth (near H100 levels)900 TFLOPS FP16 with sparsity / 1,800 INT8 TOPSFP8 Transformer Engine — comparable single-GPU inference to H100Reduced NVLink: ~400 GB/s (vs. H100's 900 GB/s) to meet export thresholdsFP64 capped at 1 TFLOPS (from 60 TFLOPS on H100)SXM form factor, 700W TDP

Para cargas de trabajo de IA

Fortalezas
  • Single-GPU inference performance matches H100 SXM — FP8 Transformer Engine fully enabled
  • 3 TB/s HBM3 bandwidth delivers fast token generation for large models
  • 80 GB allows 70B models at FP16 on a single card
  • Widely used in deployed Chinese AI inference infrastructure
Consideraciones
  • Reduced NVLink (~400 GB/s) degrades multi-GPU scaling efficiency for large training runs
  • Subject to export controls — no longer legally exportable under Oct 2023 BIS rules
  • High cost and niche availability outside China-focused supply chains
  • Now effectively superseded in Chinese AI infrastructure by H20 (higher VRAM) and domestic alternatives

Architecture

Hopper

Hopper is NVIDIA's datacenter-focused architecture succeeding Ampere. Built on TSMC 4N, it introduces the Transformer Engine with automatic FP8/FP16 mixed-precision training, HBM3/HBM3e memory, and NVLink 4.0 for multi-GPU scaling. The H100 flagship delivers up to 3x the AI training performance of A100.

AI Relevance

The Transformer Engine automatically manages FP8 precision for optimal training speed without accuracy loss. With up to 141 GB HBM3e (H200), Hopper GPUs can hold the largest open-weight models entirely in GPU memory, making them the workhorse of AI datacenters.

Process: TSMC 4NPlatform: CUDATensor Cores: Gen 4Precisions: FP64, FP32, TF32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT8

Consejo de compra

¿Deberías comprar NVIDIA H800 80GB para IA local?

Excelente opción para IA local

Ejecuta 36 de 50 modelos principales bien — un todoterreno sólido para inferencia local.

80.0 GB

VRAM

$30,000

PVP

$375/GB

Coste por GB de VRAM

Mejores modelos para esta GPU

What will limit you first

Este setup está bastante equilibrado para este modelo.

No hay grandes señales de alerta

Esta recomendación tiene margen de memoria suficiente y una velocidad estimada razonable para la carga de trabajo seleccionada.

Best upgrade itinerary

Desbloquea 1 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.

¿Quieres más margen? Mac Studio M2 Ultra 128GB (128.0 GB unified memory) es el siguiente paso.

Recommendations by Workload

Chat

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Qwen 3 32B

This model is a direct match for chat. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.

Decode 135.4 tok/s · 131K ctx · llama.cppEST.
30.4 GB / 80.0 GB VRAM

Coding

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Qwen3-Coder-Next

This model is a direct match for coding. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.

Decode 164.1 tok/s · 244K ctx · llama.cppEST.
59.2 GB / 80.0 GB VRAM

Agentic Coding

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Qwen3-Coder-Next

This model is still usable for agentic-coding, but it is not the most specialized pick. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.

Decode 164.1 tok/s · 244K ctx · llama.cppEST.
60.6 GB / 80.0 GB VRAM

Reasoning

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Qwen3-Coder-Next

This model is a direct match for reasoning. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.

Decode 164.1 tok/s · 244K ctx · llama.cppEST.
59.2 GB / 80.0 GB VRAM

RAG

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Qwen 3.5 27B

This model is a direct match for rag. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.

Decode 159.3 tok/s · 131K ctx · llama.cppEST.
31.7 GB / 80.0 GB VRAM

Full Model Compatibility

AlibabaQwen3-Coder-Next
S97
80B59.2 GB164 tok/s244K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen 2.5 VL 72B
S96
72B57.7 GB60 tok/s33K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 3.6 35B A3B
S93
35B34.4 GB309 tok/s194K ctx
+1moe
AlibabaQwen3-Coder 30B A3B Instruct
S93
30.5B29.0 GB367 tok/s256K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen 3.5 27B
S92
27B28.5 GB159 tok/s131K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 3.5 35B A3B
S92
35B31.7 GB336 tok/s131K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct
S92
30B28.7 GB380 tok/s256K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen 3 32B
S91
32B32.3 GB135 tok/s131K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 3.6 27B
S91
27B26.3 GB99 tok/s262K ctx
+1dense
CohereCommand A 111B
S91
111B80.5 GB33 tok/s14K ctx
dense
MistralMagistral Small 2507
S90
24B26.0 GB178 tok/s131K ctx
dense
MistralDevstral Small 2 24B Instruct
S90
24B26.0 GB178 tok/s256K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 3 30B A3B
S90
30.5B29.0 GB367 tok/s131K ctx
moe
NVIDIANemotron 3 Nano 30B
S90
30B29.6 GB143 tok/s131K ctx
dense
GoogleGemma 4 31B
S90
30.7B42.3 GB85 tok/s57K ctx
dense
MistralDevstral Small 1.1
S88
24B26.0 GB178 tok/s131K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 3.5 9B
S88
9B16.6 GB126 tok/s131K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 3 14B
S88
14B19.9 GB196 tok/s131K ctx
dense
NVIDIANemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B
S88
30B30.1 GB376 tok/s262K ctx
moe
MicrosoftPhi-4-reasoning-plus 14B
S87
14.7B20.9 GB206 tok/s33K ctx
dense
OpenAIGPT-OSS 20B
S87
21B24.2 GB467 tok/s128K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen 3 8B
S86
8B16.0 GB112 tok/s131K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 3.5 122B A10B
S86
122B85.8 GB74 tok/s4K ctx
moe
LG AIEXAONE 4.0 32B
S86
32B32.3 GB134 tok/s131K ctx
dense
GoogleGemma 4 26B A4B
A84
25.2B27.9 GB395 tok/s243K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen 3.5 4B
A84
4B13.5 GB56 tok/s131K ctx
dense
MistralMistral Small 4 119B
A84
119B86.9 GB79 tok/s4K ctx
moe
MistralDevstral 2 123B Instruct
A83
123B89.3 GB25 tok/s4K ctx
dense
MistralMinistral 3 14B
A82
14B19.9 GB196 tok/s262K ctx
multimodal
NVIDIANemotron Nano 8B
A81
8B15.7 GB112 tok/s131K ctx
dense
MicrosoftPhi-4 Mini Reasoning 4B
A81
3.8B12.7 GB53 tok/s131K ctx
dense
OpenAIGPT-OSS 120B
A81
117B85.2 GB29 tok/s4K ctx
dense
Mistral AIPixtral Large 124B
A79
124B89.9 GB25 tok/s4K ctx
dense
MistralLeanstral 119B A6B
A79
119B90.3 GB68 tok/s4K ctx
moe
Jina AIJina Embeddings v3
A74
0.57B12.0 GB8 tok/s8K ctx
dense
BAAIBGE M3
A73
0.57B11.2 GB8 tok/s8K ctx
dense
AlibabaQwen 3.5 397B A17B
F0
397B253.9 GB5 tok/s4K ctx
moe
Moonshot AIKimi K2.5
F0
1000B626.3 GB2 tok/s4K ctx
moe
Moonshot AIKimi K2.6
F0
1000B626.3 GB2 tok/s4K ctx
+1moe
DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Pro
F0
1600B872.8 GB2 tok/s4K ctx
moe
DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Flash
F0
284B168.2 GB13 tok/s4K ctx
moe
Z.aiGLM-5.1
F0
754B487.9 GB2 tok/s4K ctx
moe
Z.aiGLM-5
F0
744B481.8 GB2 tok/s4K ctx
moe
DeepSeekDeepSeek V3.2
F0
671B418.7 GB3 tok/s4K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen 3 235B A22B
F0
235B155.1 GB14 tok/s4K ctx
moe
AlibabaQwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct
F0
480B304.6 GB4 tok/s4K ctx
moe
MiniMax M2.7
F0
230B153.0 GB17 tok/s4K ctx
moe
DeepSeekDeepSeek Coder V2 236B
F0
236B211.5 GB8 tok/s4K ctx
moe
DeepSeekDeepSeek R1 671B
F0
671B477.8 GB3 tok/s4K ctx
moe
DeepSeekDeepSeek V3.1 671B
F0
671B477.8 GB3 tok/s4K ctx
moe

Casi al alcance

Modelos que podrías ejecutar con una mejora

Modelos de alta calidad que necesitan un poco más de memoria

1000BNivel 100Necesita ~622.6 GB
También funciona en 8× tu GPU vía NVLink 72 tok/s
1000BNivel 100Necesita ~622.6 GB
También funciona en 8× tu GPU vía NVLink 72 tok/s

Image & Video Generation

Diffusion Model Compatibility

51 of 52 models can generate images or video on your NVIDIA H800 80GB

ModelMax ResolutionGen TimeGrade
SD TurboImage512×5120msS
Stable Diffusion 1.5Image512×768100msS
Realistic Vision v5.1Image512×768100msS
DreamShaper 8Image512×768100msS
LCM DreamShaper v7Image512×7680msS
PixArt-SigmaImage1024×1024300msS
FramePack I2VVideo1280×720600ms/frameS
SDXL TurboImage512×5120msS
SDXL LightningImage1024×1024100msS
Stable Diffusion XL 1.0Image1024×1024300msS
Playground v2.5Image1024×1024500msS
RealVisXL v5.0Image1024×1024400msS
DreamShaper XLImage1024×1024400msS
Juggernaut XL v9Image1024×1024400msS
Animagine XL 3.1Image1024×1024400msS
Pony Diffusion V6 XLImage1024×1024400msS
Animagine XL 4.0Image1024×1024400msS
Illustrious XLImage1024×1024400msS
Wan Video 2.1 1.3BVideo480×832200ms/frameS
Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumImage1024×1024600msS
Flux.2 Klein 4BImage1024×1024100msS
LTX Video 2BVideo1280×720300ms/frameS
KolorsImage1024×1024700msS
Stable CascadeImage1024×1024900msS
AuraFlow v0.3Image1536×1536~1.5sS
Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeImage1024×1024~1.9sS
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large TurboImage1024×1024300msS
CogVideoX 2BVideo720×480300ms/frameS
HunyuanVideoVideo720×1280600ms/frameS
ChromaImage1024×1024300msS
Z-Image TurboImage1536×1536400msS
Flux.1 DevImage1024×1024~1.5sS
Flux.1 SchnellImage1024×1024300msS
LTX Video 13BVideo1280×720600ms/frameS
Flux.1 Kontext DevImage1024×1024~1.7sS
AnimateDiff v1.5.3Video512×768200ms/frameS
Cosmos Diffusion 7BVideo1024×576500ms/frameS
CogVideoX 5BVideo720×480400ms/frameS
Wan2.2 TI2V 5BVideo832×480400ms/frameS
Flux.2 Klein 9BImage1024×1024200msS
Flux.1 Fill DevImage1024×1024~1.5sS
Mochi 1 PreviewVideo848×480600ms/frameS
HunyuanVideo 1.5Video720×1280500ms/frameS
Helios 14BVideo1280×720600ms/frameS
SkyReels V2 14BVideo1280×720600ms/frameS
Wan Video 2.1 14BVideo720×1280600ms/frameS
Wan Video 2.2 14BVideo720×1280600ms/frameS
Qwen ImageImage1024×1024600msS
Qwen Image EditImage1024×1024600msS
Flux.2 DevImage1024×1024~16.2sS
MAGI-1Video1280×720800ms/frameA
HunyuanImage 3.0Image256×256~1sF

Image models estimated at 1024×1024 (28 steps, FP16). Video models estimated at 768×512 (25 frames, 30 steps, FP16). Actual performance varies with runtime and system load.

Multi-GPU scaling

NVIDIA H800 80GB — Up to 8× via NVLink

Scale out with multiple GPUs for larger models. NVLink provides 400 GB/s inter-GPU bandwidth with 12% overhead.

ConfigEffective memoryModels that fitEst. bandwidth
NVIDIA80 GB350/3743,000 GB/s
NVIDIA160 GB359/3745,280 GB/s
NVIDIA320 GB364/37410,560 GB/s
NVIDIA640 GB373/37421,120 GB/s

Model counts use default quantization at coding workload settings. Multi-GPU scaling factor: 0.88× per additional GPU.

Upgrade paths

Upgrade from NVIDIA H800 80GB

See what you unlock with more powerful hardware

Opciones de mejora

Opciones de mejora

NVIDIA8× NVIDIA H800 80GBMulti-GPU
8 × 80 GB = 640 GB efectivosvía NVLink (400 GB/s)
A
Desbloquea 23 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.Desbloquea Qwen 3.5 397B A17B, Kimi K2.5, Kimi K2.6+20 más · +119% más rápido promedio

Desbloquea 23 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.

Eleva la velocidad media de decodificación en torno a un 119% en los modelos que sí caben.

NVLink le da a esta ruta de scale-out una historia inter-GPU mejor que un montaje solo con PCIe.

~$30,000 MSRP

Mac Studio M2 Ultra 128GBSiguiente nivel
128 GB Unified (+48)
B
Desbloquea 1 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.Desbloquea Mixtral 8x22B

Desbloquea 1 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.

~$3,999 MSRP

NVIDIARTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition 96GBMejora NVIDIA
96 GB VRAM (+16)
B
Desbloquea 1 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.Desbloquea Mixtral 8x22B

Desbloquea 1 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.

~$9,999 MSRP

AMD Instinct MI325X 256GBMayor salto
256 GB VRAM (+176)6000 GB/s (+3000)
B
Desbloquea 13 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.Desbloquea Qwen 3.5 397B A17B, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3 235B A22B+10 más · +26% más rápido promedio

Desbloquea 13 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.

Eleva la velocidad media de decodificación en torno a un 26% en los modelos que sí caben.

~$20,000 MSRP

AMD Instinct MI350X 288GBMejor relación calidad-precio
288 GB VRAM (+208)8000 GB/s (+5000)
B
Desbloquea 14 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.Desbloquea Qwen 3.5 397B A17B, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3 235B A22B+11 más · +41% más rápido promedio

Desbloquea 14 modelos adicionales que hoy no caben en tu setup.

Eleva la velocidad media de decodificación en torno a un 41% en los modelos que sí caben.

~$8,000 MSRP

Frequently Asked Questions

What AI models can I run on NVIDIA H800 80GB?

NVIDIA H800 80GB (80 GB VRAM) can run these top models: Qwen3-Coder-Next (score: 97/100), Qwen 2.5 VL 72B (score: 96/100), Qwen 3.6 35B A3B (score: 93/100). See the full compatibility list above.

How much VRAM does NVIDIA H800 80GB have for AI?

NVIDIA H800 80GB has 80 GB of VRAM available for AI model inference. This determines which models and quantization levels you can run locally.

Is NVIDIA H800 80GB good for running LLMs locally?

Yes, NVIDIA H800 80GB is excellent for running LLMs locally with top compatibility scores above 80/100.

What is the best model for NVIDIA H800 80GB for coding?

For coding on NVIDIA H800 80GB, we recommend Qwen3-Coder-Next. It achieves 164.1 tokens per second with 244K context window. This model is a direct match for coding. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.

Should I upgrade from NVIDIA H800 80GB?

There are 5 upgrade path(s) from NVIDIA H800 80GB: NVIDIA H800 80GB, Mac Studio M2 Ultra 128GB. Upgrading would unlock larger models and faster inference speeds.

Can NVIDIA H800 80GB run Flux for image generation?

Yes, NVIDIA H800 80GB with 80 GB of usable memory can run Flux.1 Dev at FP16 natively. Flux is a 12B parameter diffusion transformer that produces high-quality images. You can also run the Schnell variant for faster generation.

What image and video AI models can I run on NVIDIA H800 80GB?

NVIDIA H800 80GB (80 GB VRAM) can handle various AI generation tasks beyond LLMs. For image generation, SDXL and Stable Diffusion 3.5 run well. Flux.1 Dev also runs natively for state-of-the-art image quality. For video, LTX Video 2.3 can generate short clips. Check the AI Capability Matrix above for detailed compatibility.

Is NVIDIA H800 80GB good for AI image generation?

NVIDIA H800 80GB is excellent for AI image generation. With 80 GB of usable memory, it runs all major diffusion models including Flux.1, SDXL, and Stable Diffusion 3.5 at full precision. You can generate high-resolution images quickly and even handle video generation models.

Can NVIDIA H800 80GB run Qwen 3.5 27B?

Yes, NVIDIA H800 80GB with 80 GB of usable memory can run Qwen 3.5 27B at Q8 (near-lossless, ~28.9 GB) or even FP16 (~55.4 GB) depending on your context needs. This setup provides an excellent experience with this model. Use Ollama or vLLM for best results.

What is the best quantization for AI models on NVIDIA H800 80GB?

With 80 GB VRAM on NVIDIA H800 80GB, use Q8_0 for most models — it is near-lossless and you have the memory for it. For 70B+ models, Q6_K offers excellent quality. Reserve Q4_K_M for 100B+ models or when you need maximum context length.

For local LLMs on NVIDIA H800 80GB, does VRAM matter more than bandwidth?

NVIDIA H800 80GB already has strong memory bandwidth, so the next limit is often memory capacity and context headroom rather than raw decode speed. For local LLMs, fit first and bandwidth second is the right mental model.

How does multi-GPU scale for AI inference on NVIDIA H800 80GB?

NVIDIA H800 80GB supports up to 8× GPU scaling via NVLink at 400 GB/s. With 8× GPUs, you get 640 GB effective memory with a 0.88× scaling factor per GPU. This enables running models like Qwen 3.5 397B A17B and Kimi K2.5 that don't fit on a single card.

Is NVLink required for multi-GPU NVIDIA H800 80GB inference?

NVLink is recommended for NVIDIA H800 80GB multi-GPU inference, providing 400 GB/s interconnect bandwidth with only 12% scaling overhead. PCIe-only setups work but have higher overhead (~25%) due to limited inter-GPU bandwidth.

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