Calculate the TPS of the H800 SXM5 on local AI models

NVIDIA 80 GB HBM3 3,360 GB/s March 2023

Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.

Calculated for this card

642 models it can run

721 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

dots.llm1

142B · Q3_K_M · 27.0 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

1,423 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a H800 SXM5?

Set the inputs, read the answer

More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.

Hides models that would only fit by being compressed below this point.

642 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
1,423 tok/s

1,210–1,708

Gemma 3 1B 1B Mar 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
1,423 tok/s

1,210–1,708

Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B Apr 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
1,423 tok/s

854–2,277 · low confidence

HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B Nov 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,423 tok/s

854–2,277 · low confidence

LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B Dec 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,423 tok/s

854–2,277 · low confidence

OLMo-1B 1B Feb 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,423 tok/s

854–2,277 · low confidence

Pythia-1b 1B Apr 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,318 tok/s

791–2,108 · low confidence

OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B May 2024 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,294 tok/s

776–2,070 · low confidence

DeciCoder-1B 1.1B Aug 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,294 tok/s

776–2,070 · low confidence

SantaCoder 1.1B Jan 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,294 tok/s

776–2,070 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,294 tok/s

776–2,070 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,186 tok/s

712–1,897 · low confidence

EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,186 tok/s

712–1,897 · low confidence

LFM2-1.2B 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,186 tok/s

712–1,897 · low confidence

MinerU2.5 1.2B Sep 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,186 tok/s

712–1,897 · low confidence

Pleias 1.0 1.2B 1.2B Dec 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,186 tok/s

712–1,897 · low confidence

Pleias-RAG-1B 1.2B Apr 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,157 tok/s

983–1,388

Llama 3.2 1B 1.2B Sep 2024 2.2 GB 131k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
1,141 tok/s

684–1,825 · low confidence

MiniCPM-1.2B 1.2B Jun 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,095 tok/s

657–1,751 · low confidence

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B 1.3B Jan 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,095 tok/s

657–1,751 · low confidence

DeepSeek-VL-1.3B 1.3B Mar 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,095 tok/s

657–1,751 · low confidence

DigiRL 1.3B Jun 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,095 tok/s

657–1,751 · low confidence

GLA Transformer 1.3B 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,095 tok/s

657–1,751 · low confidence

Janus 1.3B 1.3B Oct 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,095 tok/s

657–1,751 · low confidence

Kosmos-2.5 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
1,095 tok/s

657–1,751 · low confidence

Otter 1.3B May 2023 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable

Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.

On record

H800 SXM5 full specification

Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.

Memory

The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.

Memory size
80 GB
Memory bandwidth
3,360 GB/s
Memory type
HBM3
Memory bus width
5,120 bit
Memory clock
1.31 GHz

The chip

Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.

Graphics processor
GH100
Architecture
Hopper
Generation
Server Hopper(Hxx)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
5 nm
Transistors
80 billion
Transistor density
98,300 K/mm²
Die size
814 mm²
Released
21 March 2023

Clock speeds

How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.

Base clock
1.1 GHz
Boost clock
1.76 GHz

Processing units

What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.

Shading units
16,896
Texture mapping units
528
Render output units
24
Streaming multiprocessors
132
Tensor cores
528
L1 cache
250 KB
L2 cache
50 MB

Theoretical performance

Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.

Half precision (FP16)
237.2 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
59.3 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
29.7 TFLOPS
Pixel rate
42 GPixel/s
Texture rate
927 GTexel/s

The board

What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.

Power draw (TDP)
700 W
Suggested power supply
1,100 W
Power connectors
8-pin EPS
Bus interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Slot width
SXM Module

Software support

Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.

CUDA compute capability
9.0
OpenCL
3.0

Listings

Where to buy a H800 SXM5

No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.

What the numbers mean

Memory: the specification that decides everything

Memory

80 GB

Bandwidth

3,360 GB/s

Largest model

dots.llm1

H800 SXM5 holds 80 GB of HBM3. That puts it in the class of hardware that holds the largest open-weight models without splitting them across machines. An inference runtime can reach roughly 72 GB.

Memory bandwidth reaches 3,360 GB/s across a bus of 5,120 bits. That is at the top of what exists. Since each token means reading the whole model out of memory once, it translates almost directly into generation speed — this card is bandwidth-rich enough that model size stops being the limiting factor long before the bus does.

Bandwidth is clock times bus width, and this card clocks its memory at 1.31 GHz. It is why core counts predict generation speed so poorly.

In practice that combination tops out at dots.llm1, 142B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 27.0 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

H800 SXM5 is built on the graphics processor GH100, using the architecture Hopper from NVIDIA, as part of the generation Server Hopper(Hxx).

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 5 nm, with a die measuring 814 mm², holding 80 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.

It was released in March 2023, roughly 3.4830215136284 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.

Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks

FP16

237.2 TFLOPS

FP64

29.7 TFLOPS

Tensor cores

528

On paper H800 SXM5 reaches 237.2 TFLOPS at half precision, and 59.3 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.

Double-precision throughput reaches 29.7 TFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.

The card carries 528 tensor cores across 132 streaming multiprocessors. These accelerate the matrix arithmetic at the heart of a transformer, and they are what make prompt processing — reading a long document before answering — dramatically faster than it would otherwise be.

Clocks run from a base of 1.1 GHz to a boost of 1.76 GHz. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.

Cache and processing units

H800 SXM5 has an L1 cache of 250 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 50 MB. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.

There are 16,896 shading units, 528 texture mapping units, and 24 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.

Power, size and installation

Power draw

700 W

H800 SXM5 is rated at 700 W, and the suggested system power supply is 1,100 W. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.

The board occupies sxm module, and needs 8-pin EPS. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.

It connects over PCIe 5.0 x16. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.

The extremes

The largest AI models that run on a H800 SXM5

The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.

  1. 01 Mistral Medium 3.5 128B · IQ4_XS · Apr 2026 27.3 tok/s
  2. 02 dots.llm1 142B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2025 27.0 tok/s
  3. 03 Pixtral Large 124B · IQ4_XS · Nov 2024 28.2 tok/s
  4. 04 xLAM-8x22B 141B · Q3_K_M · Sep 2024 27.2 tok/s
  5. 05 SaulLM-large 141B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2024 27.2 tok/s
  6. 06 Mixtral 8x22B 141B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 98.5 tok/s
  7. 07 WizardLM-2 8x22B 141B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 27.2 tok/s
  8. 08 Zephyr 141B-A39B 141B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 98.5 tok/s
  9. 09 APUS-xDAN-4.0(MoE) 136B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 28.2 tok/s
  10. 10 DBRX 132B · IQ4_XS · Mar 2024 97.1 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a H800 SXM5

Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.

  1. 01 Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,423 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,423 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,423 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,423 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,423 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 1,423 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 1,318 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 1,294 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 1,294 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 1,294 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a H800 SXM5

You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.

  1. 01

    Find the model in the table

    The table lists 642 models this card can run. Search by name, or by size — typing 27b matches on the parameter count even when the name never states it.

  2. 02

    Set the context length you will actually use

    Drag the slider to the conversation length you plan to work at. The cache grows with the conversation, and against a card holding 80 GB it is often what pushes a large model over the edge.

  3. 03

    Choose how far you will compress

    By default the table picks the least-compressed copy that fits. Setting a floor removes models that only qualify through heavy compression.

  4. 04

    Take the range as the answer

    The figures are calculated, not measured. The fastest result on this card is 1,423 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Read the fit verdict last

    A tight fit runs but leaves no room to raise the context later; comfortable has headroom. The memory column shows what each model needs against an available 80 GB.

  6. 06

    Open the model to compare cards

    Following a model through to its own page lists all the hardware that can run it, so you can see how it compares against H800 SXM5.

Answers

H800 SXM5 — common questions

01

Would two H800 SXM5 cards be twice as fast?

Capacity adds, throughput does not. Two of them give you 160 GB of combined memory, at roughly the same generation speed as one.

02

H800 SXM5— which AI models can it run?

642 of the 721 open-weight language models we track fit on this card and can be run locally. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.

03

H800 SXM5— what is the largest AI model it can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits is dots.llm1 at 142B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 27.0 tokens per second and needs about 70.1 GB of the card's memory.

04

H800 SXM5— how many tokens per second does it produce?

It depends on the model. The fastest model we track here is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 1,423 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.

05

H800 SXM5— can it run 7B models?

Yes. For example it runs Gemma 4 E4B at Q8_0, using about 9.8 GB of memory and generating around 316 tokens per second.

06

H800 SXM5— can it run 13B models?

Yes. For example it runs DeepSeekMoE-16B at Q8_0, using about 17.5 GB of memory and generating around 494 tokens per second.

07

H800 SXM5— can it run 30B models?

Yes. For example it runs ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B at Q8_0, using about 29.2 GB of memory and generating around 282 tokens per second.

08

H800 SXM5— can it run 70B models?

Yes. For example it runs Qwen3-Coder-Next at Q6_K, using about 62.0 GB of memory and generating around 144 tokens per second.

09

H800 SXM5— how much memory does it have?

This card has 80 GB of HBM3. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 72 GB available for a model and its conversation.

10

H800 SXM5— what is its memory bandwidth?

Memory bandwidth reaches 3,360 GB/s across a bus of 5,120 bits. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.

11

H800 SXM5— what type of memory does it use?

It uses HBM3 clocked at 1.31 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.

12

H800 SXM5— who makes it?

This is a product of NVIDIA, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 5 nm.

13

H800 SXM5— when was it released?

It was released in March 2023.

14

H800 SXM5— how much power does it use?

Rated board power is 700 W, and the suggested system power supply is 1,100 W. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.

15

H800 SXM5— how much cache does it have?

The L1 cache is 250 KB, and the L2 cache is 50 MB. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.

16

H800 SXM5— what are its TFLOPS?

It is rated at 237.2 TFLOPS at half precision and 59.3 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.

17

H800 SXM5— how many tensor cores does it have?

It has 528 tensor cores across 132 streaming multiprocessors. They accelerate the matrix arithmetic a transformer is built from, which mainly speeds up processing a long prompt rather than producing the reply.

18

H800 SXM5— does it support CUDA?

Yes. It reports CUDA compute capability 9.0. Capability 7.0 and above has tensor cores, which modern inference software uses; below that it falls back to slower code paths for quantised models.

19

H800 SXM5— what bus interface does it use?

It uses PCIe 5.0 x16. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.

20

H800 SXM5— is it good for running local AI models?

Its memory is large enough for models most desktop hardware cannot touch and its bandwidth puts it among the fastest hardware available for generation. In total it runs 642 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

21

H800 SXM5— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Only partly. Layers beyond the card's 80 GB sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded model is rarely worth using. Every figure here assumes it is fully resident on the card.

The other direction

Looking at it from the other side?

This page starts from the hardware. If you already know which model you want and need to know what it takes to run it, start from the model instead.

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