hardware selection

Decode is bandwidth-bound, so the FP8 FLOPS number that dominates the marketing does not move it. Where the B300 pays is capacity, and capacity converts into throughput through batch size rather than directly. The arithmetic that decides it, and the case where the B200 wins.

The part with no NVLink can be the correct choice, and the reason is the workload shape rather than the specification. What fits on one card, what MIG partitioning buys a multi-tenant service, and the exact point where the missing scale-up link makes the decision flip.