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NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB
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NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB — Benchmarks & Specs

80 GB VRAM300W TDP$15,000 MSRP2021

The NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB is a graphics card from the Ampere family released in 2021 from NVIDIA. Key on-paper specs include 80 GB of GDDR VRAM, 300W TDP. It launched with a $15,000 MSRP, though street prices typically diverge meaningfully from launch pricing — see the linked product cards below for current Amazon listings. Data on this page draws on 10 community AI inference reports, aggregated from public benchmark databases (TechPowerUp, PassMark, Geekbench, Cinebench) and the LocalLLaMA community. Read this page when shopping the NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB, comparing it against other graphics cards in your build, or sizing it for a specific workload (gaming at 1080p/1440p/4K, productivity benchmarks, or local LLM inference).

AI Inference Performance

Tokens per second under each model + quantization. Higher = faster generation. Bars compare runs across the same model.

llama-3.3-70b-instruct BF16 via Silex Data
570.0 tok/s
deepseek-r1-distill-qwen:32b BF16 via Databasemart.com
472.2 tok/s
gemma2:27b BF16 via Databasemart.com
302.3 tok/s
llama3:8b q4_K_M via XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference (GitHub)
138.3 tok/s
llama3:70b AWQ-4bit via Valebyte
78.0 tok/s
llama3:8b FP16 via XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference (GitHub)
54.6 tok/s
llama-3.3-70b-instruct BF16 via NVIDIA NIM LLMs Benchmarking
53.9 tok/s
qwen2.5:72b GPTQ-Int4 via Qwen2.5 Documentation (ReadTheDocs)
46.3 tok/s
deepseek-r1:32b q4_K_M via Databasemart.com
36.4 tok/s
qwen2.5:72b BF16 via Qwen2.5 Documentation (ReadTheDocs)
31.4 tok/s

Full Specifications

tdp w300
vram gb80
cuda cores6912
memory typeHBM2e

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB — Frequently Asked Questions

What is the NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB best used for?
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB is positioned as a 80 GB VRAM Ampere-family graphics card. Use it for high-end 4K gaming and local LLM inference. See the synthetic + AI benchmark tables below for measured performance.
When was the NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB released, and what was its launch MSRP?
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB launched in 2021 at a $15,000 MSRP. Street prices diverge from launch pricing over a product's lifetime — check the linked Amazon listings on this page for current availability.
Where do the benchmark numbers on this page come from?
Synthetic benchmarks are scraped from public databases (TechPowerUp, PassMark, Geekbench Browser, Cinebench leaderboards). AI inference numbers come from the LocalLLaMA community (Reddit threads, llama.cpp / Ollama discussion logs, and Phoronix when available). Every benchmark row carries an inline source citation — click through to verify the original number.
Can the NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB run local LLMs?
Yes — NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB has 10 AI inference benchmarks on file (see the AI Inference Performance section above for model + tokens-per-second numbers). With 80 GB VRAM, it fits the popular 32B-parameter open-weight models at Q4 quantization comfortably.
Where can I buy the NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB?
Active Amazon listings aren't on file for this exact SKU yet. See the linked benchmark sources and the Compare tool for adjacent parts that may be in stock — and check the /benchmarks index for the latest curated picks in this category.

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