H100 80GB SXM5 vs Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB for Local LLMs
The H100 80GB SXM5 has about 319% more memory bandwidth (3,350 vs 800 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 319% faster on the H100 80GB SXM5. The Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 50 vs 46 of 61 models (192 vs 80 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB but not the H100 80GB SXM5: Qwen3-235B-A22B (235.1B). MSRP is $30,000 for the H100 80GB SXM5 vs $6,999 for the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: H100 80GB SXM5 (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (54 shared models), the H100 80GB SXM5 posts the higher tok/s in 50 rows vs 4. Methodology.