Practitioner Gets 2x H200 (282GB VRAM) Rig — Community Documents Intelligence Ceiling for Enterprise-Tier Local Inference

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A 430-upvote, 157-comment r/LocalLLaMA thread documents a practitioner benchmarking LLMs on a company-provided 2x H200 rig with 282GB total HBM3e VRAM, crowdsourcing the current intelligence ceiling at that scale. Community consensus centers on full-precision DeepSeek R1 671B and MiniMax M2.5 as the strongest options without quantization trade-offs. The thread is a rare documented data point for enterprise-tier local inference and reveals which frontier models are actually deployment-viable at scale.