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Detailed NVIDIA A100 80GB Datasheet and Specs
Before deploying your workflows, review the comprehensive technical hardware specifications of the NVIDIA A100 80GB GPU below.
Technical Category
Hardware Specification
What It Means For Your AI Workloads
CategoryGPU Architecture
SpecificationNVIDIA Ampere (GA100)
MeaningBuilt purely for enterprise data centers: massive 54.2 billion transistors for non-stop industrial execution.
CategoryProcess Technology
SpecificationTSMC 7nm FinFET
MeaningOptimized power efficiency and dense transistor alignment to handle heavy computing without overheating.
CategoryMassive Memory
Specification80GB HBM2e
MeaningEliminates Out-of-Memory (OOM) errors; allows full-parameter fine-tuning of massive LLMs like Llama 3 (70B).
CategoryMemory Bandwidth
Specification2,039 GB/s (Over 2.0 TB/s)
MeaningWorld's fastest memory speed; streams ultra-large training datasets instantly without data-transfer bottlenecks.
CategoryMemory Interface
Specification5120-bit
MeaningUltra-wide memory bus width that enables massive parallel data access inside the graphics card.
CategoryTensor Cores
Specification432 Third-Generation Tensor Cores
MeaningFeatures structural sparsity to deliver up to 2X speedup and up to 20X higher AI throughput than prior generations.
CategoryNVIDIA CUDA Cores
Specification6,912 Cores
MeaningMassive parallel processing cores to accelerate standard matrix calculations and GPU-accelerated computing.
CategorySuperior Precision: FP64
Specification9.7 TFLOPS
MeaningPure mathematical precision for High-Performance Computing (HPC), molecular dynamics, and rigorous scientific research.
CategorySuperior Precision: FP64 Tensor
Specification19.5 TFLOPS
MeaningAccelerates double-precision scientific simulations using the efficiency of modern Tensor Cores.
CategorySuperior Precision: TF32
Specification156 TFLOPS | 312 TFLOPS* (Sparsity)
MeaningAccelerates deep learning math standard out-of-the-box without requiring code modifications.
CategorySuperior Precision: BFLOAT16
Specification312 TFLOPS | 624 TFLOPS* (Sparsity)
MeaningThe modern industry standard precision for heavy LLM training and full-parameter fine-tuning workloads.
CategorySuperior Precision: FP16
Specification312 TFLOPS | 624 TFLOPS* (Sparsity)
MeaningHigh-speed half-precision computing, perfectly optimized for massive deep learning training pipelines.
CategoryAdvanced NVLink Interconnects
Specification600 GB/s Bidirectional Bandwidth
MeaningUltra-high-speed GPU-to-GPU communication; ensures linear performance scaling when running multi-GPU pods.
CategoryNVLink Connection Type
SpecificationThird-Generation NVLink (SXM4 Cluster)
MeaningProvides 12x the bandwidth of standard PCIe Gen4 slots, eliminating cross-card bottlenecks in large clusters.
CategoryMIG Support
SpecificationUp to 7 Isolated Hardware Instances
MeaningPartition 1 physical A100 into 7 separate GPUs to run multiple light inference tasks simultaneously without cross-interference.
CategorySystem Interface
SpecificationPCIe Gen4: 64 GB/s
MeaningFast host-to-device communication to speed up initial data loading from CPUs to the GPU.
CategoryMax Thermal Power (TDP)
SpecificationSXM4: 400W / PCIe: 250W-300W
MeaningEnterprise-grade power consumption managed seamlessly by RunC.AI's cooling infrastructure.