NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe Cloud GPU Specs
HexGrid Cloud rents the NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe at $1.49 per GPU hour, billed per minute — about 12% below the $1.70/hr average across 2 other clouds. The A100 80GB carries 80GB of HBM2e memory on the Ampere architecture.
HexGrid Cloud price
$1.49/hr
Billed per minute
VRAM
80GB
HBM2e
FP32
19.5 TFLOPS
Compute performance
Market average
$1.70/hr
You save 12%
Running the A100 80GB on HexGrid Cloud
What you get when you deploy with us, beyond the hourly rate.
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A100 80GB pricing across the market
Published on-demand rates from other clouds, so you can see where our A100 80GB price sits.
Market average $1.70/hr across 2 clouds
12% below market average- HexGrid CloudYou're here$1.49/hr
- RunPod$1.59/hr
- Lambda AI$1.80/hr
Other providers' rates are their published on-demand list prices. They exclude committed-use discounts and can change at any time. Shown for reference only.
About the NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe
What the A100 80GB is built for, and where it falls short.
The NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe is an Ampere Tensor Core accelerator with 80GB of HBM2e memory and support for TF32, BF16, FP16, INT8, FP64, MIG, and NVLink. It is designed for AI training and inference as well as scientific and high-performance computing.
Best suited for
The A100 80GB remains a capable AI and HPC accelerator thanks to its large HBM2e memory, strong Tensor Core performance, FP64 support, and MIG virtualization.
- LLM training
- LLM inference
- Model fine-tuning
- Scientific computing
- HPC
- Data analytics
Strengths
- 80GB HBM2e memory
- Strong FP64 and Tensor performance
- MIG support
- NVLink support
- Broad AI and HPC software support
Limitations
- No FP8 acceleration
- Slower AI throughput than H100 and newer GPUs
- Lower memory bandwidth than H200
NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe specifications
Full technical specifications for the NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe.
Memory
- Memory
- 80 GB
- Type
- HBM2e
- Bandwidth
- 1,935 GB/s
- Bus width
- 5120-bit
- ECC
- Yes
Compute
- CUDA cores
- 6,912
- Tensor cores
- 432
- Tensor generation
- Gen 3
- Boost clock
- 1,410 MHz
AI & compute performance
- FP64
- 9.7 TFLOPS
- FP32
- 19.5 TFLOPS
- TF32 Tensor
- 156 TFLOPS / 312 TFLOPS sparse
- BF16 Tensor
- 312 TFLOPS / 624 TFLOPS sparse
- FP16 Tensor
- 312 TFLOPS / 624 TFLOPS sparse
- INT8 Tensor
- 624 TOPS / 1,248 TOPS sparse
Power & physical
- TDP
- 300 W
- Form factor
- PCIe dual-slot
- Cooling
- Passive
- Length
- 267 mm
Interconnect
- Interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
- NVLink
- Yes
- NVLink bandwidth
- 600 GB/s
- Infinity Fabric
- No
Virtualization
- MIG
- Yes
- vGPU
- Yes
Media engines
- NVENC engines
- 0
- NVDEC engines
- 5
- AV1 encode
- No
- AV1 decode
- Yes
Software
- CUDA
- Yes
- ROCm
- No
Precision support
- FP64
- Yes
- FP32
- Yes
- TF32
- Yes
- BF16
- Yes
- FP16
- Yes
- FP8
- No
- INT8
- Yes
A100 80GB frequently asked questions
Common questions about NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe pricing, specifications and workloads on HexGrid Cloud.
How much memory does the NVIDIA A100 80GB have?
This A100 configuration has 80GB of HBM2e memory with 1,935 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Does the A100 support MIG?
Yes. The A100 supports up to seven Multi-Instance GPU partitions.
Does the A100 support FP8?
No. FP8 Tensor Core acceleration was introduced with the Hopper generation.
Is the A100 good for LLM training?
Yes. The A100 remains a capable training and fine-tuning GPU, particularly where 80GB of memory is useful.
How much does an A100 cost per hour?
A100 cloud pricing varies by form factor, provider, region, and system configuration. HexGrid compares available hourly rates.
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