Quick Insights
Specifications
| VRAM | 80GB |
| Memory Bandwidth | - |
| FP16 TFLOPS | - |
| Tensor TFLOPS | - |
| FP32 TFLOPS | - |
| TDP | - |
| Form Factor | - |
| Architecture | - |
| NVLink | No |
| Release Date | - |
A100 80GB Price and Rental Notes
A100 80GB opportunity terms are about hourly rental and provider comparisons. This page should help users decide whether A100 is still a good value versus H100, L40S, or MI300X.
A100 80GB price per hour
A100 80GB remains a practical rental choice for fine-tuning, inference, and legacy training stacks. Compare per-hour cost with the cheapest provider, but also check whether the instance is PCIe or SXM.
CoreWeave, RunPod, and hyperscaler comparison
Specialized GPU clouds can be cheaper, while hyperscalers may provide stronger enterprise controls. The best choice depends on job length, data location, networking, and reliability needs.
Best fit
Use A100 80GB when software compatibility and 80GB VRAM matter, but H100 pricing is too high for the workload.
| Decision factor | Buy or rent signal | Cost check |
|---|---|---|
| A100 80GB PCIe vs SXM | Confirm whether the quote is PCIe or SXM before comparing performance, NVLink, and instance cost. | A cheaper PCIe listing may be the right value, but it should not be compared one-to-one with an SXM cluster. |
| Legacy CUDA workload | A100 is attractive when the stack is already tuned for Ampere and H100 speed is not required. | Compare total job time against H100, not only the per-hour discount. |
| Spot or marketplace rental | Use spot or marketplace capacity for resumable training, experimentation, and batch inference. | Add restart risk, storage persistence, and egress charges to the headline A100 hourly price. |
A100 80GB cost planning checklist
- Confirm whether the A100 80GB listing is PCIe or SXM, and whether the provider exposes NVLink, multi-GPU topology, and enough local storage for the training or inference job.
- Compare A100 80GB with H100 using total job cost. A100 can have a lower hourly rate, while H100 may finish large jobs faster enough to offset the premium.
- Use spot or marketplace A100 capacity for resumable workloads only after planning checkpoint storage, restart behavior, data movement, and the cost of interruptions.
Reference checks: NVIDIA A100 specifications · Lambda cloud GPU pricing reference
Cloud GPU Pricing
Rent A100 80GB from 5 cloud providers. Prices shown per GPU per hour.
| Provider | Type | Instance | GPUs | On-Demand | Per GPU | Spot | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RunPod | gpu-cloud | NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe | 1x | $1.39/hr | $1.39/hr Cheapest | $0.820/hr (-41%) | - |
| Microsoft Azure | hyperscaler | Standard_NC48ads_A100_v4 | 2x | $7.35/hr | $3.67/hr | - | - |
| Microsoft Azure | hyperscaler | Standard_NC96ads_A100_v4 | 4x | $14.69/hr | $3.67/hr | - | - |
| Microsoft Azure | hyperscaler | Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4 | 1x | $3.67/hr | $3.67/hr | - | - |
| Microsoft Azure | hyperscaler | Standard_ND96amsr_A100_v4 | 8x | $32.77/hr | $4.10/hr | - | - |
A100 80GB vs Alternatives
Compare A100 80GB with similar GPUs from other brands.
| GPU | VRAM | FP16 TFLOPS | Bandwidth | Hardware Price | Cloud Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A100 80GB Current | 80GB | - | - | - | - | - |
| AMD Instinct MI210 AMD | 64GB (-20%) | 181.0 | 1.6 TB/s | - | - | Compare |
| MI300 AMD | 128GB (+60%) | 490.3 | 5.3 TB/s | $15k | - | Compare |
| AMD Instinct MI300A AMD | 128GB (+60%) | 980.0 | 5.3 TB/s | - | - | Compare |
| AMD Instinct MI250X AMD | 128GB (+60%) | 383.0 | 3.3 TB/s | - | - | Compare |
| AMD Instinct MI250 AMD | 128GB (+60%) | 362.0 | 3.3 TB/s | - | - | Compare |
Best Use Cases
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Alternatives
- AMD Instinct MI210 64GB · -
- MI300 128GB · $15k
- AMD Instinct MI300A 128GB · -
- AMD Instinct MI250X 128GB · -
- AMD Instinct MI250 128GB · -
