H100 80GB SXM5 vs RTX 5090 32GB for Local LLMs

The H100 80GB SXM5 has about 87% more memory bandwidth (3,350 vs 1,792 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 87% faster on the H100 80GB SXM5. The H100 80GB SXM5 fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 46 vs 38 of 61 models (80 vs 32 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the H100 80GB SXM5 but not the RTX 5090 32GB: gpt-oss-120b (120.4B). MSRP is $30,000 for the H100 80GB SXM5 vs $1,999 for the RTX 5090 32GB. 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 (47 shared models), the H100 80GB SXM5 posts the higher tok/s in 45 rows vs 2. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	H100 80GB SXM5	RTX 5090 32GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
VRAM	80 GB	32 GB
Memory type	HBM3	GDDR7
Memory bandwidth	3,350 GB/s	1,792 GB/s
TDP	700 W	575 W
MSRP (list)	$30,000	$1,999
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 47 shared models

Model	Params (B)	H100 80GB SXM5 tok/s	H100 80GB SXM5 fits	RTX 5090 32GB tok/s	RTX 5090 32GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	2664.8 est.	Yes	1425.5 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	2131.8 est.	Yes	1140.4 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	1776.5 est.	Yes	950.3 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	1065.9 est.	Yes	570.2 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	710.6 est.	Yes	380.1 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	710.6 est.	Yes	380.1 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	710.6 est.	Yes	380.1 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	710.6 est.	Yes	380.1 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	710.6 est.	Yes	518.3 est.	No	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	710.6 est.	Yes	538.6 est.	No	H100 80GB SXM5
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	666.2 est.	Yes	356.4 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	592.2 est.	Yes	282.5 measured	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	561.0 est.	Yes	300.1 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	561.0 est.	Yes	300.1 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	546.6 est.	Yes	292.4 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

	H100 80GB SXM5	RTX 5090 32GB
Catalog models that fit	46 of 61	38 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	gpt-oss-120b (120.4B)	—

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