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A100 80GB SXM vs V100
Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed hourly. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.
CHEAPEST A100 80GB SXM
$0.290/hr
SpotGPUs · median $5.12 · 7 providers
CHEAPEST V100
$0.170/hr
Akash · median $3.70 · 11 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
V100
live panel, 2026-09-27
| A100 80GB SXM | V100 | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Ampere | Volta |
| LAUNCHED | 2020 | 2017 |
| MEMORY | 80 GB HBM2e | 16 or 32 GB HBM2 |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 2.0 TB/s | 900 GB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 312 TFLOPS FP16/BF16 tensor dense (624 sparse) | 125 TFLOPS FP16 tensor (SXM2) |
| POWER DRAW | 400 W | 300 W (SXM2) / 250 W (PCIe) |
| INTERCONNECT | NVLink 3.0 600 GB/s | NVLink 2.0 300 GB/s (SXM2) or PCIe 3.0 |
HOW TO CHOOSE
V100 vs A100 80GB SXM
The A100 triples memory bandwidth, adds BF16 and MIG, and delivers about 2.5x the FP16 tensor throughput. Panel prices often put the A100 within reach of V100 money - check the spread before renting Volta.
Workload fit
A100 80GB SXM: fine-tuning up to 70b, multi-gpu training, large-model inference. V100: budget training, batch inference, legacy cuda stacks.
A100 80GB SXM VS V100 - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, A100 80GB SXM or V100?
By today's published on-demand rates: A100 80GB SXM starts at $0.290/GPU/hr (median $5.12, 7 providers) and V100 starts at $0.170/GPU/hr (median $3.70, 11 providers). The cheapest live listing is the V100 at Akash. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
A100 80GB SXM or V100 - which should I rent?
A100 80GB SXM: The A100 80GB was the standard large-model training chip of 2021-2023 and still anchors an enormous installed base. V100: The V100 was the first GPU with tensor cores and dominated deep-learning training from 2017 to 2020. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent A100 80GB SXM and V100?
7 providers publish A100 80GB SXM rates and 11 publish V100 rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
Full pricing: A100 80GB SXM · V100 · all comparisons