Also of note is that the RenderFormer tests and Blender tests were done on the same Nvidia A100, which sounds sensible at first glance, but doesn't really make sense because Nvidia's big-iron compute cards (like the A100) lack the raytracing acceleration units present on the rest of their range. The A100 is just the wrong tool for the job here, you'd get vastly better Blender-performance-per-dollar from an Nvidia RTX card.

Blenders benchmark database doesn't have any results for the A100, but even the newer H100 gets smoked by (relatively) cheap consumer hardware.

  Nvidia H100 NVL        -  5,597.13
  GeForce RTX 3090 Ti    -  5,604.69
  Apple M3 Ultra (80C)   -  7,319.21
  GeForce RTX 4090       - 11,082.51
  GeForce RTX 5090       - 15,022.02
  RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell - 16,336.54