The secondary GPU market, split in two
Where Hopper, Ada, and Ampere are actually trading, and why who you buy from matters more than the model.
What the market is doing
Into the Blackwell ramp, the secondary market is splitting in two. Hopper holds a firm price floor that sorts genuine inventory from counterfeit risk, while Ampere has become the abundant, deeply discounted workhorse of the channel. A handful of inference-class cards are resisting depreciation entirely. The result is a market where the right number depends less on the model than on who you buy it from.
What we priced, and what we left out
The inaugural read set the standing exclusion: on Hopper, price alone is not provenance. Listings well below the going floor, the classic counterfeit and misrepresentation signal, were left out rather than laundered into a number. What published did so on citable Western dealer listings only.
What stood out this month
Authenticity sets the floor
Genuine Hopper inventory holds a hard price floor. Anything advertised well beneath the going range is the counterfeit or misrepresentation risk a broker is paid to screen out, not a deal. On the highest-value cards, the floor is a feature: it is the line that separates real supply from the rest.
Ampere is the abundant, discounted workhorse
The A100 and the wider Ampere line are the most available hardware in the secondary channel and carry the deepest discounts to new. For teams buying cost-efficient training and inference capacity right now, this is where the value is hiding.
Some cards resist the depreciation curve
Inference-class parts are not following the usual used-discount pattern. Production constraints and steady demand keep the RTX 4090 trading above its launch price and the L4 holding near new, while older datacenter cards fall away. Generation alone does not predict the number.
Condition and documentation move the price
Across every model, the spread between the low and high of a range is mostly condition and provenance, not the chip. Documented, tested units sit at the top of the range; unknown-history cluster pulls sit at the bottom. This is exactly the gap a brokered acceptance window is built to close.
The numbers
Current secondary prices for every SKU we broker, computed from our own observed market data rather than list prices. Free to read, and free to check us on.
Secondary-market prices for the SKUs we broker, used-grade and trustworthy supply only. Sub-floor listings that price alone cannot vouch for are excluded.
H100 PCIe
80GB
H100 NVL
94GB
L40S
48GB
RTX 6000 Ada
48GB
L4
24GB
RTX 4090
24GB
A100 PCIe
80GB
A100 PCIe
40GB
RTX A6000
48GB
A40
48GB
A30
24GB
RTX 3090
24GB
Informational only. Observed secondary-market estimates, not quotes, offers, or advice. Do not rely on these figures as the sole basis for a purchase.
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