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NVIDIA A100 (SXM 80GB)

Accelerators

Processing & platform

Architecture
Ampere*

Memory & storage

Video memory
80 GB*
Video memory type
HBM2e*
Rated memory bandwidth
2,039 GB/s*

System configuration

Detailed specifications

Specifications 1 · 19 fields
GPU architecture — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
Ampere*
Theoretical peak: BF16 tensor dense per GPU — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
312* TFLOPS
Theoretical peak: FP16 tensor dense per GPU — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
312* TFLOPS
Theoretical peak: FP32 non-tensor dense per GPU — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
19.5* TFLOPS
Native hardware support: FP4 tensor — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
No*
Theoretical peak: FP64 non-tensor dense per GPU — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
9.7* TFLOPS
Theoretical peak: FP64 tensor dense per GPU — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
19.5* TFLOPS
Native hardware support: FP6 tensor — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
No*
Native hardware support: FP8 tensor — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
No*
Theoretical peak: INT8 tensor dense per GPU — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
624* TOPS
Theoretical peak: TF32 tensor dense per GPU — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
156* TFLOPS
Physical configuration — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
SXM4*
GPU interconnect bandwidth (NVLink 3) — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
600* GB/s
PCIe interface declaration — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
PCIe Gen4*
Maximum board power — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
400* W
Peak memory bandwidth per GPU — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
2,039* GB/s
Memory capacity per GPU — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
80* GB
Memory technology — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
HBM2e*
GPU model — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM — 80 GB HBM2e
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM*
Specifications 2 · 16 fields
device name
NVIDIA A100 (SXM 80GB)*
typical power w
400* W
on chip sram mb
40*
hbm memory gb
80* GB
memory bandwidth tb s
2*
headline metric
624 TOPS INT8 dense (1248 sparse); 80 GB HBM2e; the pre-Hopper datacenter workhorse*
source type
Vendor*
vendor
NVIDIA*
tops per watt calc
1.56*
compute paradigm
Electronic*
device type
GPU*
release year
2020*
maturity
Commercial*
precision
INT8*
throughput unit
TOPS*
peak throughput
624*

* Provisional data