Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia V100

Nvidia V100 rents for 1.6x less per hour, but Nvidia A100 buys 1.6x more FP16 compute per dollar — the cheaper card is the dearer one per unit of work.

Prices and stock checked 2 hours ago

Datasheet, side by side

Memory per GPU2.5x on the Nvidia A100
Memory bandwidth2.1x on the Nvidia A100
FP16 / BF16 dense2.5x on the Nvidia A100
GPU interconnect2.0x on the Nvidia A100
Board poweridentical

Figures are the vendors' own published numbers, dense rates without sparsity. A bar is drawn only where both cards publish the same figure.

Price, side by side

Metric Nvidia A100 Nvidia V100
Cheapest listed $0.27 $0.17
Median across providers $1.38 $0.39
Most expensive listed $3.11 $2.34
Providers 12 5
Reporting stock 9 2
One month, 730 hours $195 $124

Frequently asked questions

Is the Nvidia A100 or the Nvidia V100 cheaper to rent?

The Nvidia A100 starts at $0.27 per GPU hour and the Nvidia V100 at $0.17. Nvidia V100 rents for 1.6x less per hour, but Nvidia A100 buys 1.6x more FP16 compute per dollar — the cheaper card is the dearer one per unit of work.

Which one can I actually get right now?

Nvidia A100: 9 of 12 providers report stock, cheapest in stock $0.27 at Vast.ai. Nvidia V100: 2 of 5 providers report stock, cheapest in stock $0.19 at Runpod.

What does a month on each card cost?

Nvidia A100: $195 for 730 hours at its cheapest listed rate. Nvidia V100: $124 for 730 hours at its cheapest listed rate.