Nvidia B200 Resale Value Hits 158% of MSRP as AI Demand Defies Depreciation

According to data from Silicon Data, Nvidia's Blackwell-architecture B200 GPU is trading on the secondary market at 158% of its original MSRP roughly one year after release. Additionally, hourly cloud rental rates for the B200 have climbed to between $5.50 and $5.80, underscoring the relentless demand for high-performance AI compute. This price surge demonstrates how extreme demand for AI infrastructure has upended standard corporate accounting models, where enterprise hardware typically depreciates linearly over three to five years. The sustained hardware premium shows that compute demand continues to outpace supply across the industry, despite public calls from tech leaders to slow down AI development. Benchmarks from SemiAnalysis show that the B200 remains exceptionally cost-efficient, running models like DeepSeek-R1 at an inference cost of just $0.20 per million tokens with an interactive speed of 76 tokens per second per user. Older Nvidia compute GPUs, including the A100 and H100, are similarly maintaining residual market values far above standard straight-line accounting expectations.