llama3.1:8b on A6000, A100, H100 — 2026-04-17
2026-04-17T21:56:19.000Z → 2026-04-17T21:57:39.630Z
On 2026-04-17, llama3.1:8b ran across A6000, A100, H100. H100 finished first at 191.4 tok/s, 26× faster than A6000. The per-million-token cost: $3.61 (H100) vs $13.32 (A6000) — the surprise: the headline GPU H100 was also the cheapest per-million tokens, coming in 3.7× less than A6000.
Podium
H100
1st
thunder-h100
- peak tok/s
- 191.4
- avg tok/s
- 191.4
- $ / 1M tok
- $3.61
A100
2nd
thunder-a100
- peak tok/s
- 13.7
- avg tok/s
- 13.7
- $ / 1M tok
- $15.82
A6000
3rd
thunder-a6000
- peak tok/s
- 7.3
- avg tok/s
- 7.3
- $ / 1M tok
- $13.32