Stone to Silicon

Computing · 2022

Nvidia H100

The GPU that trained the generative AI boom.

Nvidia's Hopper H100 packed 80 billion transistors and a Transformer Engine with FP8. Clusters of tens of thousands of H100s trained frontier language models.

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Related measurements

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ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)

Fastest supercomputer Latest: 1.81B GFLOP/s (2025) Source: Our World in Data