The Volta architecture, introduced in 2017, can still hold its own across a multitude of AI-related workloads, with the Tesla V100 and its 32GB of HBM2 memory and 900GB/s bandwidth sufficient to take on modern-day solutions. Of course, it took an NVLink carrier board and some heatsink modifications to ensure the hardware was mounted and working properly, but once that obstacle was cleared, it was off to the races. Against the M5 Ultra and DGX Spark, four V100s can deliver up to a 167 percent performance uplift. In Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, the Tesla V100 can effortlessly hold its own against the com