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NVIDIA H200 (SXM)

NVIDIA Corporation · commercial

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See what an agent can do with NVIDIA H200 (SXM) before you ever sign up. Pick a story: recorded sessions replay real probe-harness transcripts; sandboxed self-drive sessions are designed and gated (docs/TRY-IT.md).

$curl -sL 'https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h200/' | grep -o 'H200' | head -1 # vendor spec page, live and keylessrecorded session — replayed, not live
recorded 2026-09-15 · exit 0 · captured verbatim by our probe harness, secrets redacted

Verified integrations

No integration evidence found in our corpus for this product yet — that means none was found, never that it doesn’t integrate.

By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme

Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →

How well agents can access and operate the product

6.0/100

Ai compute — stories about ai compute in this arenaAi computeevidence →

Stories about ai compute in this arena

24.0/100

Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →

How much of the product can run unattended

0.0/100

Creator media — stories about creator media in this arenaCreator mediaevidence →

Stories about creator media in this arena

0.0/100

Datacenter scale — stories about datacenter scale in this arenaDatacenter scaleevidence →

Stories about datacenter scale in this arena

36.0/100

Driver openness — stories about driver openness in this arenaDriver opennessevidence →

Stories about driver openness in this arena

0.0/100

Gaming performance — stories about gaming performance in this arenaGaming performanceevidence →

Stories about gaming performance in this arena

0.0/100

Memory vram — stories about memory vram in this arenaMemory vramevidence →

Stories about memory vram in this arena

68.4/100

Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →

Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories

42.0/100

Power cooling — stories about power cooling in this arenaPower coolingevidence →

Stories about power cooling in this arena

9.0/100

Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →

Data-handling and privacy stories

0.0/100

Software toolchain — stories about software toolchain in this arenaSoftware toolchainevidence →

Stories about software toolchain in this arena

62.4/100

Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts

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Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 43/43 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence

Drive the product through a documented public API G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3none0/10

Connect an agent via an official MCP server G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/auntestednone yet

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3noneuntestednone yet

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/auntestednone yet

Build against official SDKs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial5/10T

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial5/10T

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Operate the product with natural-language commands G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Subscribe to events via webhooks G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Use an official CLI G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness1n/auntestednone yet

Run a 70B-class quantized LLM on this GPU — published VRAM capacity and memory bandwidth that make local or single-node inference practical C

Llm memory

ai-native userMemory vram — stories about memory vram in this arenaMemory vram3full9/10T

Ship GPU-compute workloads on the vendor's toolchain — CUDA or ROCm/HIP documentation lists this part as a supported target C

Compute stack

developerSoftware toolchain — stories about software toolchain in this arenaSoftware toolchain3full8/10T

Self-host the core product G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3full7/10X

Train and serve at datacenter scale on this part — documented high-bandwidth interconnect (NVLink, Infinity Fabric), multi-GPU systems, and rack-scale deployment C

Scale out

ml engineerDatacenter scale — stories about datacenter scale in this arenaDatacenter scale3partial6/10X

Size training and inference from published tensor throughput — TFLOPS or TOPS with precision and sparsity stated, not a bare marketing number C

Tensor specs

ml engineerAi compute — stories about ai compute in this arenaAi compute3partial4/10T

This GPU has a documented LLM inference story — low-precision formats (FP8/FP4) and supported serving stacks (TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, ROCm, llama.cpp) for this part C

Inference stack

ai-native userAi compute — stories about ai compute in this arenaAi compute3partial4/10T

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth3n/auntestednone yet

Export all of my data in open formats and leave G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3n/auntestednone yet

Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture3noneuntestednone yet

This card drives high-refresh 4K gaming — vendor performance claims corroborated by independent game benchmarks C

4k gaming

gamerGaming performance — stories about gaming performance in this arenaGaming performance3noneuntestednone yet

Memory specs are published in full for this exact part — capacity, memory type, bus width, and bandwidth C

Memory spec

ml engineerMemory vram — stories about memory vram in this arenaMemory vram2partial6/10T

PyTorch and mainstream ML frameworks run on this GPU through officially documented builds and support matrices C

Frameworks

ml engineerSoftware toolchain — stories about software toolchain in this arenaSoftware toolchain2partial6/10X

Sustained workloads are power-efficient on this part — documented power envelopes with independent performance-per-watt testing C

Efficiency

ml engineerPower cooling — stories about power cooling in this arenaPower cooling2partial3/10X

Run this GPU on an open driver — open-source kernel modules or upstream Linux support documented by the vendor C

Open drivers

developerDriver openness — stories about driver openness in this arenaDriver openness2none0/10

AI upscaling and frame generation are supported on this card — the DLSS or FSR generation is documented for this part, with broad game support C

Upscaling

gamerGaming performance — stories about gaming performance in this arenaGaming performance2noneuntestednone yet

Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2n/auntestednone yet

Control data retention and deletion G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2n/auntestednone yet

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2n/auntestednone yet

Hardware media engines and creator-app acceleration are documented — AV1/HEVC encoders, and professional or ISV-certified driver support where the vendor claims it C

Media engines

creatorCreator media — stories about creator media in this arenaCreator media2noneuntestednone yet

Linux is a first-class citizen for this GPU — documented Linux driver releases and independent Linux testing of this part C

Linux support

developerDriver openness — stories about driver openness in this arenaDriver openness2noneuntestednone yet

Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2n/auntestednone yet

Perform bulk operations across many items at once G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2noneuntestednone yet

Read the product's source under an open license G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2noneuntestednone yet

Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2noneuntestednone yet

Spec a build around published board power — TDP/TGP, connector requirements, and cooling guidance for this exact card C

Psu planning

gamerPower cooling — stories about power cooling in this arenaPower cooling2noneuntestednone yet

Version, review, and roll back my automations G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth1n/auntestednone yet

Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 25 stories with headroom

What would move NVIDIA H200 (SXM)’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.

  1. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDelegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product

    nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 45

    The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".

  2. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDrive the product through a documented public API

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 45

    The H200 is a hardware accelerator; while CUDA Toolkit and Nsight tools provide programming interfaces, there is no evidence of a documented public REST/agentic API for driving the product, and explicit probes for OpenAPI/swagger specs all returned 404s.

  3. Gaming performance — stories about gaming performance in this arenaThis card drives high-refresh 4K gaming — vendor performance claims corroborated by independent game benchmarks

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".

  4. Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrevent my data from being used to train AI models

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".

  5. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productGet AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product

    nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 30

    The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".

  6. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productRun the product headlessly / in CI for automation

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".

  7. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productOperate the product with natural-language commands

    nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 30

    The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".

  8. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productUse an official CLI

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".

Showing the top 8 of 25 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.

Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.

Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map5 surfaces · 11 covered stories

Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.

Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs

Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.

$curl -sL 'https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h200/' | grep -o 'H200' | head -1 # vendor spec page, live and keylessreproduced
$ curl -sL 'https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h200/' | grep -o 'H200' | head -1  # vendor spec page, live and [redacted]less
H200

Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence

6 of 6 testable claims verified · 0 contradictedintegrity 100/100

11 distinct capability claims found in NVIDIA H200 (SXM)’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.

6

Verified

0

Unverified

0

Contradicted

5

Undersold

Verified (7)
Undersold (5)
Claims outside our story set (5)

Real capability claims found in NVIDIA H200 (SXM)’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.

  • Provides up to 110X faster time-to-results versus CPUs

    source ↗
  • Supports Multi-Instance GPU partitioning into up to 7 instances at 18GB each

    source ↗
  • Supports confidential computing for secure workload execution

    source ↗
  • H200 NVL bundled with a five-year NVIDIA AI Enterprise software subscription

    source ↗
  • Supports application development and deployment across embedded systems, workstations, data centers, cloud, and supercomputers

    source ↗
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Business model

oem-channel

Datacenter GPU sold via OEM systems and cloud providers — no public list price; rented by the hour on GPU clouds.

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Score trend

How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.

PA Scoretracked since Sep 15 '26 — no movement recorded yet
Agent-readytracked since Sep 15 '26 — no movement recorded yet

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Recorded agent sessions — and a live MCP handshake where the vendor ships one.

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