Nvidia H100 purse hits the market for $65,000

Nvidia H100 purse
(Image credit: GPU Purses)

GPU Purses made news a few months after it converted a $20 Nvidia GeForce GT 730 GPU into a thousand-dollar plastic handbag that looked like it came from Temu. It’s now back with a more premium offering, putting an Nvidia H100 AI GPU (or at least pieces of it) on the same plastic casing, calling it the H100 Purse.

However, the purse doesn’t look like it features a complete graphics card—instead, you’ll see the massive chip labeled GH100 at the center of the bag, flanked by several LR22 and LR33 inductors. The listing shows just one picture, and the description only says, “Purse that has a rare one of a kind gpt-4 training gpu.” It also mentions, “This purse is subject to export controls,” even though we’re unsure if it will run or if it’s even an actual AI GPU.

The listing priced the H100 Purse at $65,536, adding quite a premium on Nvidia’s Hopper GPU. Although it does not have over a 50x price increase with the GT 730 GPU Purse, it’s still over twice the asking price for a working H100 AI GPU, currently priced at around $25,000 apiece. And if you tack on $5,000 on the final price, you might be able to purchase a working next-generation Nvidia GB200 Blackwell GPU.

Luxury fashion items are known for their inflated prices, but they’re at least usually classy or stylish. We don’t see the quality of these exorbitant GPU purses (and we’re unlikely to purchase one, anyway), but the photos of the item, its product page, and the entire website do not inspire confidence.

Given its absurd prices, we’re unsure if GPU Purses has sold anything or if it’s even a legitimate site. Nevertheless, it’s pretty interesting how GPU technologies have entered popular culture, where they are now being made into fashion pieces.

These GPUs aren’t the first time we’ve seen PC components turned into fashion accessories, though. You could quickly get CPU keychains online, and Etsy has a healthy ‘CPU jewelry’ marketplace. So, if you want to wear something that came from a computer, why not spend on those $20 trinkets instead of plunking thousands of dollars on a questionable site?

Jowi Morales
Contributing Writer

Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.

  • P.Amini
    A necklace made of a 2000W PSU, stylish!
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  • qwertymac93
    Deeply disappointed the author did not comment on the significance of the specific price listed. It's clearly a joke that went right over some heads.
    Reply
  • acadia11
    Nay, Is this an onion article!? ☠️😂
    Reply
  • Pierce2623
    Aye yo! I got 4070 super purses for sale for only $4,500! First come first serve, you better hurry!
    Reply
  • Pierce2623
    I see one glaring issue. How large could the crossover between women who carry $65k purses and women who who would actually want a GPU purse possible be? It had to be tiny already at $1000. Maybe Chinese AI companies will buy them trying to harvest the chips. Even the base level H100 80GB pcie is still over 30k in the US.
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  • HideOut
    Admin said:
    GPU Purses is selling an Nvidia H100 shoulder bag that costs $65,536.

    Flaunt your style with this $65,000 Nvidia H100 purse : Read more
    So wouldnt that round to $66,000? i mean if you are going to pretend to be writers or something...
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  • Sippincider
    HideOut said:
    So wouldnt that round to $66,000? i mean if you are going to pretend to be writers or something...
    Or would roll over to $0, depending on integer size...
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  • COLGeek
    A fool and his/her money is soon parted...
    Reply
  • USAFRet
    Pierce2623 said:
    I see one glaring issue. How large could the crossover between women who carry $65k purses and women who who would actually want a GPU purse possible be? It had to be tiny already at $1000. Maybe Chinese AI companies will buy them trying to harvest the chips. Even the base level H100 80GB pcie is still over 30k in the US.
    This isn't for "sales".
    (except maybe one idiot)

    Rather, publicity. And it appears to be working.
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  • King_V
    HideOut said:
    So wouldnt that round to $66,000? i mean if you are going to pretend to be writers or something...
    The specific price is meant to be funny, but also call back to a memory (pun intended) for those of us who worked on 8-bit systems limited to 16-bit addressing. Thus, 65,536 bytes.
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