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Nvidia H800

China-market H100 variant (announced GTC March 2023) that kept most Tensor Core compute but cut NVLink to 400 GB/s; banned by the October 2023 US export controls, after which Chinese street prices spiked as high as ~$70k per card.

ChinaDiscontinuedNvidiaHopper familyLaunched 2023-03TSMC 4N

Latest observation ~$35K (per card) as of 2023-12 · researched 2026-08-27

~$35Klatest observation · street price · 2023-12
2dated price observations on record
8sourced specs (all linked below)

Specifications

Sourced specs

SpecValueSource
FP16/BF16 Tensor Core (SXM)~1,979 TFLOPS with sparsity (roughly H100 SXM parity)via philisun.com2024
FP8 Tensor Core (SXM)~3,026-3,958 TFLOPS with sparsity (slight cut vs H100 SXM per some sources)via getdeploying.com2026-08
TF32/FP16/FP8/INT8 (PCIe 80GB, Lenovo datasheet)TF32 756 / FP16 1,513 / BF16 1,513 / FP8 3,026 / INT8 3,026 (with sparsity)via lenovopress.lenovo.com2023-09
FP64 / FP32 (PCIe)0.8 TFLOPS FP64 / 51 TFLOPS FP32via lenovopress.lenovo.com2023-09
Memory80GB HBM2e at 2 TB/s (PCIe) or 94GB HBM3 at 3.9 TB/s (H800 NVL)via lenovopress.lenovo.com2023-09
InterconnectNVLink cut to 400 GB/s (vs 900 GB/s on H100), PCIe Gen5 128 GB/svia lenovopress.lenovo.com2023-09
TDP350W (80GB PCIe) / 400W (94GB NVL)via lenovopress.lenovo.com2023-09
Multi-Instance GPUUp to 7 MIG instances (10GB or 12GB each)via lenovopress.lenovo.com2023-09

Pricing

Price history, newest first

DatePriceTypeSourceConfidence
2023-12~$35K per cardPost-ban China street prices ran $35k-69k per chip; reports of up to ~$70,000 per card in China after the October 2023 banStreet pricevia Epoch AI (citing Tom's Hardware)medium
2023~$282.4K from ¥2,000,000 at 2023 avg 7.08 CNY/USD per 8-GPU H800 server8-GPU H800 servers about 2 million yuan (~$280,000); SemiAnalysis reported ~$270kReported contractvia Epoch AI (citing Reuters)medium

vendor-official or multiple independent reports · single major report or several secondary · estimate or lone secondary source

Prices in USD, converted at each observation year's average exchange rate; the original figure and rate print under every converted price. How prices are sourced and graded ↗

Context

Notes

  • Sold only in China, Hong Kong, Macau; Lenovo withdrew the H800 PCIe optionals from marketing in its October 31, 2023 update.
  • Status: discontinued (banned by October 2023 export controls).

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All specs and prices link to their original sources, dated as observed. Figures are market observations, not offers; treat each as of its date.