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Memory figure is from NVIDIA's public product materials; cloud hourly rates come from provider pricing snapshots, not from NVIDIA."},{"slug":"nvidia-h100-80gb","name":"NVIDIA H100 80GB","vendor":"NVIDIA","vram_gb":80,"tdp_w":700,"architecture":"Hopper","form_factor":"SXM / PCIe","source_ids":["SRC-NVIDIA-H100-SPEC"],"published":true,"narrative_status":"approved","narrative":"Hopper-generation datacenter GPU. aicenterAI does not invent tokens/s figures; compare providers on listed $/hr and confirm throughput on your workload."},{"slug":"nvidia-l40s","name":"NVIDIA L40S","vendor":"NVIDIA","vram_gb":48,"tdp_w":350,"architecture":"Ada Lovelace","form_factor":"PCIe","source_ids":["SRC-NVIDIA-L40S-SPEC"],"published":true,"narrative_status":"approved","narrative":"48 GB Ada GPU often used for inference and media workloads. 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