Issue 01 / GPU Market ReportJune 2026

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.

By Ryan Hammett, ClustermeltJune 2026Prices as of June 1, 2026
Market read

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.

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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.

Headline findings

What stood out this month

01 /

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.

02 /

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.

03 /

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.

04 /

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 price read

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.

The Clustermelt price read

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.

Hoppersecondary / used

H100 PCIe

80GB

$31,995$31,995 to $34,995

H100 NVL

94GB

$29,900$29,900 to $34,995
Adasecondary / used

L40S

48GB

$6,800$5,200 to $7,999

RTX 6000 Ada

48GB

$5,600$5,200 to $5,989

L4

24GB

$3,200$3,120 to $3,500

RTX 4090

24GB

$2,425$2,350 to $2,900
Amperesecondary / used

A100 PCIe

80GB

$14,301$9,951 to $14,301

A100 PCIe

40GB

$5,750$5,500 to $7,900

RTX A6000

48GB

$4,000$3,950 to $4,800

A40

48GB

$5,775$5,136 to $6,999

A30

24GB

$3,125$1,800 to $4,023

RTX 3090

24GB

$800$776 to $1,050

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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The table above is the market. What you actually pay depends on quantity, condition, warranty and lead time. Send us the spec and we will price it against vetted supply, with provenance checked before it ever reaches you.

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