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H200 SXM vs A40

H200 SXM vs A40: specs and rental cost

Compare memory, node configurations, and fixed weekly and monthly cost before choosing between NVIDIA H200 SXM and NVIDIA A40.

Decision summary

H200 SXM provides 93 GB more VRAM per card. A40 costs $1,640 less per 30-day term . Choose based on whether memory headroom or lower fixed cost is the binding constraint.

NVIDIA

H200 SXM

LLM inference · fine-tuning

$1,832/ 30 days
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NVIDIA

A40

rendering · inference

$192/ 30 days
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SpecificationH200 SXMA40
ArchitectureHopperAmpere
VRAM141 GB HBM3e48 GB GDDR6 ECC
Host resources / card24 vCPU · 192 GB RAM12 vCPU · 96 GB RAM
Local NVMe / card3.84 TB1 TB
7-day price / card$512$54
30-day price / card$1,832$192
4-GPU node / 30 days$6,742$707
Catalog quantity265 cards265 cards