Rmatamini’s P99S packs a 16GB Tesla V100, Core i7-10850H, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD into a 5. 6L box for $699 on Newegg
The same 16GB V100 PCIe card costs a whopping $584 new on Amazon, and renewed units can be had for $410
Nvidia’s R580 driver branch is Volta’s last; CUDA 13 no longer targets the card, and potential buyers need to contend with a relatively new seller in tow
A new Newegg listing squeezes an Nvidia Tesla V100 with 16GB of HBM2 into a 5. 6-liter box – and asks just $699 for the lot. The Rmatamini P99S "Mini AI Workstation" pairs Nvidia’s 2017 data center accelerator with a mobile-centric Intel Core i7-10850H, 16GB of DDR4, a 512GB NVMe SSD, a 700W power supply, and Windows 11 Pro, and ships free from China. The number that makes this interesting sits on another site: HP’s version of the same 16GB V100 PCIe card is selling new on Amazon for $584 through a third-party seller with only two units left in stock; Take that at face value, and the rest of the computer costs as little as $115. A $584 card in a $699 box? Amazon’s pricing is where one would currently find a brand-new V100 GPU, which has seen a surge in demand due to both the relevance of older silicon and the fact that it uses HBM2, which holds its own in bandwidth compared to newer consumer-grade GPUs. One could argue that a fairer comparison would involve a potentially refurbished unit that can be found for as low as $410 on Amazon, visible from the same listing as the new SKU. This means the mini PC itself costs either ~$115 or ~$290, depending on how one values the Tesla V100 GPU in a 16GB trim. The V100, which once commanded a staggering $10,000 or higher price tag, is arguably dated silicon before fading away, but it is drawing attention again, and as much to do with today’s market as with the card. Fast memory has become the most expensive part of any AI build. TechRadar’s analysis tied runaway graphics card pricing to AI demand for RAM in January, and a TechSpot analysis, published in February, found 16GB RTX 5060 Ti cards up 22% globally in roughly three months, a trend that has yet to break. Nvidia itself raised the price of the DGX Spark from $3,999 to $4,699 in February, citing memory supply constraints , for a machine whose early reviews had already flagged memory bandwidth as a limitation. Compact Ryzen AI Max+ 395 systems such as the MINIX ER939-AI start at $3,150. Against that backdrop, the V100’s spec sheet looks oddly current…