NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPU

Description

The NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPU, built on the cutting-edge NVIDIA Ampere architecture, sets a new standard in high-performance computing by delivering unprecedented acceleration at every scale. Designed for the world’s most demanding data centers, A100 powers breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and big data analytics, enabling organizations to process and analyze massive datasets with unmatched efficiency.

Key Highlights

• Revolutionary Performance:
  Up to 20× faster performance compared to the previous generation (Volta), delivering 156–312 TFLOPS with Tensor Float 32 (TF32) and up to 1,248 TOPS for INT8 operations with sparsity.

• Massive Memory & Bandwidth:
  Featuring 80GB of ultra-fast HBM2e memory and over 2 TB/s of memory bandwidth, the A100 enables training and inference of the largest AI models and datasets without bottlenecks.

• Multi-Instance GPU (MIG):
  Dynamically partition a single A100 GPU into up to 7 isolated GPU instances, allowing multiple users or workloads to share the same GPU with guaranteed quality of service (QoS).

• Scalable Interconnect:
  With NVIDIA NVLink® and NVSwitch™, A100 scales to thousands of interconnected GPUs, enabling exascale AI training and high-performance scientific simulations.

• Enterprise-Ready Software:
  Seamlessly integrates with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Magnum IO, and the RAPIDS ecosystem, delivering an end-to-end, cloud-native platform optimized for VMware vSphere and NVIDIA-Certified Systems™.

Performance for Next-Generation Workloads

• AI Training: Achieve up to 3× higher training throughput on massive models like DLRM and BERT, with 2,048 A100 GPUs training BERT at record-breaking speeds—solving workloads in under a minute.

• AI Inference: Optimized for every precision (FP32 to INT4), A100 delivers up to 249× higher inference performance than CPUs and 7× higher throughput with MIG technology.

• High-Performance Computing: Introduces double-precision Tensor Cores and 80GB memory, reducing 10-hour scientific simulations to under four hours and offering up to 11× higher HPC performance versus previous-generation GPUs.

• Data Analytics: Handles 10TB-scale datasets with 2× faster performance compared to A100 40GB, accelerating ETL, machine learning, and real-time analytics for modern big data workflows.

Related product: NVIDIA A100 40GB

Technical Specifications of NVIDIA A100 80GB GPU

Why Choose NVIDIA A100 80GB?

The NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPU is the most powerful end-to-end AI and HPC platform, enabling organizations to:

• Train and deploy next-generation AI models at scale.

• Run massive scientific simulations with unparalleled speed.

• Unlock insights from petabyte-scale datasets with real-time analytics.

• Maximize infrastructure utilization with MIG and cloud-native orchestration.

Whether for autonomous systems, drug discovery, financial modeling, or scientific research, the A100 delivers the performance, scalability, and efficiency to power tomorrow’s innovations.