Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 (HGX H100)
The Hopper configuration of Lenovo's SR780a V3, ordered under base feature code C4E1 and built on a ThinkSystem NVIDIA HGX H100 80GB 700W eight-GPU liquid-cooled board. The machine's distinguishing feature is thermal: sixth generation Lenovo Neptune water cooling on four loops cools the CPUs, the GPUs and the NVLink switches, removing up to 75 percent of the server's heat in warm water and leaving fans for everything else. That is what lets an eight-accelerator system occupy 5U instead of the 8U its air-cooled equivalents need, in a chassis 447 by 219 by 942 mm weighing up to 92 kg. Hosting is two fifth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors at 56 cores and 350 W, and power is eight hot-swap supplies in N+N redundancy, all standard. Lenovo publishes no system power draw, no accelerator memory total and no system-level throughput; the linked HGX H100 entry carries NVIDIA's figures for the baseboard.
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Systems built on this design
2 configurationsBuilt on the NVIDIA HGX H100 8-GPU baseboard, so accelerator performance matches the reference. Chassis, CPU, memory and cooling are this vendor's own.
System Details
GPU Configuration
System Specifications
Precision Performance Breakdown
| Precision | System Performance | Per GPU | Efficiency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 272 TFLOPS | 34 TFLOPS | 34.0 TFLOPS/kW | |
| 536 TFLOPS | 67 TFLOPS | 67.0 TFLOPS/kW | |
| 3,956 TFLOPS | 495 TFLOPS | 989.0 TFLOPS/kW | |
| 7,916 TFLOPS | 990 TFLOPS | 1979.0 TFLOPS/kW | |
| 7,916 TFLOPS | 990 TFLOPS | 1979.0 TFLOPS/kW | |
| 15,832 TFLOPS | 1,979 TFLOPS | 3958.0 TFLOPS/kW | |
| 15,832 TOPS | 1,979 TOPS | 3958.0 TFLOPS/kW |
Where a vendor states a basis, the figure shown is the dense one, and any figure it publishes is listed separately. Vendors commonly headline the sparse number instead: for NVIDIA's 2:4 structured sparsity that is exactly twice the dense figure, though other vendors' sparse modes do not all follow that ratio.
Powered by NVIDIA H100
This system utilizes 8 × NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB GPUs, each delivering exceptional performance for AI and HPC workloads.
Per GPU TDP
700W
Per GPU Memory
80 GB
Process Node
4nm
Architecture
Hopper
Frequently asked questions
How much does the ThinkSystem SR780a V3 (HGX H100) cost?
Lenovo sells the ThinkSystem SR780a V3 (HGX H100) on quote through OEMs and resellers, and nobody rents a whole one by the hour. Renting its 8 H100 accelerators separately at the cheapest live rate Flopper tracks, $1.99 per GPU-hour across 23 providers, comes to about $15.92 an hour for the equivalent capacity. H100 rental prices →
How much power does the ThinkSystem SR780a V3 (HGX H100) require?
Lenovo has not published a power figure for the ThinkSystem SR780a V3 (HGX H100), and Flopper does not derive one from the accelerator count because the rest of the system draws power too.
How many GPUs are in the ThinkSystem SR780a V3 (HGX H100)?
8. The ThinkSystem SR780a V3 (HGX H100) carries 8 NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB accelerators in a rack form factor, and every throughput figure on this page is the total across them. H100 specifications →
Documentation & Resources
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Flopper Spec Sheet
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 (HGX H100) specifications, generated from our database. Printable.
Vendor product page
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 (HGX H100) documentation
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR685a V3 Server Product Guide (LP1910)
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Typical Use Cases
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 (HGX H100) runs 8× H100 GPUs over One NVIDIA HGX H100 8-GPU liquid-cooled baseboard, with the NVLink switches water-cooled alongside the GPUs and CPUs, delivering 15,832 TFLOPS FP8 dense.