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NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) vs NVIDIA H800 for local LLMs

13 reports on the NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) and 0 on the NVIDIA H800

Which is faster for local LLMs?

Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 2.2x higher on the NVIDIA H800 (1,493 GB/s on the NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked), 3,350 on the NVIDIA H800). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked)
Memory
64GB
Memory bandwidth
1,493 GB/s
FP16 compute
not on record
Reports
13
NVIDIA H800
Memory
80GB
Memory bandwidth
3,350 GB/s
FP16 compute
989.5 TFLOPS
Reports
0

Estimated by the calculator

The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape.

ModelNVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked)NVIDIA H800
Qwen3.8 27B30.4 t/sQ8_034.1 t/sFP16
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active127.0 t/sQ3_K_S202.0 t/sQ4_K_S
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active109.5 t/sQ8_0245.7 t/sQ8_0
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B activedoesn't fit at these settings9.6 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM
Qwen3.6 27B30.4 t/sQ8_034.1 t/sFP16
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active82.1 t/sQ8_087.8 t/sFP16

Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) · NVIDIA H800

Every report on each card, with its source: NVIDIA CMP 170HX 64GB (unlocked) · NVIDIA H800

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