NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM Cloud GPU Specs
HexGrid Cloud rents the NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM at $1.49 per GPU hour, billed per minute — about 12% below the $1.70/hr average across 2 other clouds. The A100 SXM 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 SXM on HexGrid Cloud
What you get when you deploy with us, beyond the hourly rate.
Live in under a minute
Pick a region, hit deploy, and SSH in. No quota requests, no sales call.
Per-minute billing
You pay for the minutes you use. Stop the instance and billing stops with it.
Ready for training day one
CUDA, PyTorch and the usual drivers are preinstalled, or bring your own image.
No egress charges
Move checkpoints and datasets out without a surprise bandwidth bill.
A100 SXM pricing across the market
Published on-demand rates from other clouds, so you can see where our A100 SXM 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 SXM
What the A100 SXM is built for, and where it falls short.
The NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM is the high-bandwidth SXM4 version of NVIDIA's Ampere datacenter accelerator. It combines 80GB HBM2e memory, NVLink, MIG, Tensor Cores, and strong FP64 performance for large-scale training, HPC, and multi-GPU workloads.
Best suited for
The SXM version of the A100 offers higher memory bandwidth and is designed for tightly interconnected multi-GPU servers.
- Distributed AI training
- LLM fine-tuning
- LLM inference
- HPC
- Scientific computing
- Data analytics
Strengths
- 80GB HBM2e
- 2,039 GB/s memory bandwidth
- 600 GB/s NVLink
- MIG support
- Strong multi-GPU scaling
Limitations
- No FP8 acceleration
- Older than Hopper and Blackwell
- Requires SXM server infrastructure
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM specifications
Full technical specifications for the NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM.
Memory
- Memory
- 80 GB
- Type
- HBM2e
- Bandwidth
- 2,039 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
- 400 W
- Form factor
- SXM4
- Cooling
- Server-cooled
Interconnect
- Interface
- SXM4
- 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 SXM frequently asked questions
Common questions about NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM pricing, specifications and workloads on HexGrid Cloud.
What is the difference between A100 PCIe and A100 SXM?
The SXM version provides higher memory bandwidth, a higher power envelope, and is designed for high-bandwidth NVLink-connected server platforms.
How much VRAM does A100 SXM have?
This configuration has 80GB of HBM2e memory.
Does A100 SXM support NVLink?
Yes. NVIDIA specifies up to 600 GB/s of NVLink bandwidth.
Does A100 SXM support MIG?
Yes. It supports up to seven MIG instances.
How much does A100 SXM cost per hour?
Pricing varies by cloud provider and multi-GPU configuration. HexGrid compares available A100 SXM rates.
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