The main limiter in the data center setting is licensing, interconnects, and ram.
By contract - you can’t sell 4090s in a data center. You’ll find a few shops skirting this, but nobody can get their hands on 100k 4090s without raising legal concerns.
Likewise, nvidia A100s have more than a few optimizations through nvlink which are only available on data center chips.
Lastly, per card memory matters a lot Nvidia has lead the market on the high end here.
By contract - you can’t sell 4090s in a data center. You’ll find a few shops skirting this, but nobody can get their hands on 100k 4090s without raising legal concerns.
Likewise, nvidia A100s have more than a few optimizations through nvlink which are only available on data center chips.
Lastly, per card memory matters a lot Nvidia has lead the market on the high end here.