Nvidia H100 and A100 GPUs – comparing available capacity at GPU cloud providers
Nice compiled list of stats.  I'm not sure what they mean by H100s requiring pre-approval on LambdaLabs?  Maybe I was grandfathered in since I had an account prior to their rollout, but I never had to do anything special to rent H100s there.<p>Somewhat related and hopefully helpful: My experience so far using the H100 PCIes to train ViTs:<p>Pros: A little over 2x performance compared to A100 40GB.  80GB by default.  fp8 support, which I haven't played with but supposedly is another 2x performance win for LLMs.  For datacenters and local workstations it's twice as power efficient as the A100s.  Supposedly they have better multi-GPU and multi-node bandwidth, but my workload doesn't stress that and I can only rent 1xH100s at the moment.<p>Cons: I had trouble using them with anything but the most recent nVidia docker containers.  The somewhat official PyTorch containers didn't work, nor did brewing my own.  Luckily the nVidia containers have worked fine so far.  I just don't like that they use nightly PyTorch.  In addition to that, because of their increased performance, they really start to push the limits on feeding data fast enough to them with existing system configurations.  I was CPU-limited on the LambdaLabs 1xH100 machines because of this.<p>Overall the pricing has worked out equal for my use-case, but I'm sure fp8 would make them more affordable.  If fp8 were available out-of-the-box on PyTorch I'd play with it, but it's only available right now from some nVidia codebase specific to LLMs.<p>Even at equal pricing, having twice the power per GPU and per node is a big win.  That increases experiment iteration across the board.<p>Side note:  If I recall correctly, nVidia is heavily differentiating the H100 products by their interface this go around, which I find quite odd.  The SXM version of the cards are supposed to be something like twice as beefy as the PCIE version?  Not sure why they're doing that; gonna make comparing rentable instances all the more difficult if you overlook that little detail.  A100 had a little bit of this, but the difference was never much in practice except between specifically the A100 40 GB PCIe and the 80 GB SXM, which was something like 10% faster.<p>Anyone else having fun with the new toy our overlords have allowed us to play with?