H200 vs V100: Specs, VRAM & Price
Short answer: choose the H200 when 141 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the V100 when 32 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
The H200 has 141 GB of VRAM; the V100 has 32 GB.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H200 from $5.05/GPU/hr; V100 from $0.110/GPU/hr. The V100 is 98% cheaper at the entry rate.
H200
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
V100
Good for inference workloads on older-generation hardware
Last updated: 2026-11-03 UTCRefreshes every 6 hours
Specs side by side
| Spec | H200 | V100 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 141 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 4.8 TB/s | 900 GB/s |
| Architecture | Hopper | Volta |
| Compute capability | 9.0 | 7.0 |
| Precisions in hardware | FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4 | FP32, FP16 |
| Peak FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS | 989 TFLOPS | 125 TFLOPS (SXM2), 112 TFLOPS (PCIe) |
| Peak FP8 tensor TFLOPS | 1,979 TFLOPS | – |
| NVLink / multi-GPU interconnect | NVLink 4, 900 GB/s bidirectional | NVLink, 300 GB/s (SXM2 only) |
| Max board power (TDP) | Up to 700W (configurable) | 300W (SXM2), 250W (PCIe) |
| Form factor | SXM | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Regions | 3 | 2 |
On-demand price
| Rate | H200 | V100 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest per GPU/hr | $5.05/GPU/hr | $0.110/GPU/hr (cheapest overall) |
Which is better for AI: H200 or V100?
Choose the H200 when 141 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the V100 when 32 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
H200 vs V100: common questions
Is the H200 or the V100 better for AI?
Short answer: choose the H200 when 141 GB of VRAM is the gating requirement. Choose the V100 when 32 GB is enough for the workload and the lower hourly rate points that way.
Is the H200 or the V100 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the H200 starts at $5.05/GPU/hr (median $5.05/GPU/hr) and the V100 starts at $0.110/GPU/hr (median $0.220/GPU/hr). The V100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 98%.
What is the difference between the H200 and the V100?
The H200 has 141 GB of VRAM against the V100's 32 GB; the H200 is a Hopper part and the V100 is Volta (compute capability 9.0 vs 7.0); only the H200 supports BF16, FP8, INT4 compute. On price, the H200 lists from $5.05/GPU/hr and the V100 from $0.110/GPU/hr.
How widely available are the H200 and the V100?
The H200 is listed in 3 regions and the V100 in 2 regions right now.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H200 vs the V100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $5,050 on the H200 and $110 on the V100, a difference of $4,940 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How much VRAM does the H200 have compared to the V100?
The H200 has 141 GB of VRAM; the V100 has 32 GB.
Does the H200 or the V100 support NVLink?
Yes, both support a multi-GPU interconnect: the H200 has NVLink 4, 900 GB/s bidirectional and the V100 has NVLink, 300 GB/s (SXM2 only).
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation, not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
Memory bandwidth, tensor TFLOPS, NVLink/interconnect and max board power are the same verified-from-datasheet figures shown on each model's own H200 page and V100 page, which link the primary vendor source for that model. A dash here means Aquanode hasn't verified that figure from a primary source yet, never a guess.
Go further
Check what fits in each card's memory with the H200 VRAM calculator and the V100 VRAM calculator, see vendor-published throughput in the GPU benchmarks and specs table, or browse every model by generation in the GPU index.
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Related reading: H200 pricing and specs, NVIDIA H200 guide, H100 vs H200, H200 vs B200 vs GB200, and H100 and H200: SXM vs NVL vs PCIe.
