$500 Nvidia V100 32GB Achieves 115 Tokens/Second on Qwen Coder 30B A3B Q5

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A practitioner demonstrates that a secondhand V100 32GB purchased for ~$500 including shipping achieves 115 tokens/second on Qwen Coder 30B A3B Q5, despite the card having no ongoing consumer driver support. The 143-upvote post with 72 comments highlights the continued viability of the data center GPU surplus market for affordable high-VRAM inference, with the V100's 32GB HBM2 being the key advantage over consumer RTX cards at this price point. The result positions the V100 as an undervalued local inference platform.