Intel Gaudi 2 vs Nvidia A30

The Gaudi 2 is newer, with 4x the memory and 2.6x the bandwidth. The A30 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

4x more on Gaudi 2

Gaudi 2: 96 GB

A30: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.6x higher on Gaudi 2

Gaudi 2: 2,450 GB/s

A30: 933 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

69% cheaper on A30

Gaudi 2: $1.05 /GPU/hr

A30: $0.32 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	Gaudi 2	A30	Difference
On-demand	$1.16 /GPU/hr from $1.05	$0.68 /GPU/hr from $0.32	42% cheaper on A30
Reserved	-- /GPU/hr from $0.60 (12 mo)	$0.47 /GPU/hr from $0.28 (12 mo)
Spot	No spot listings	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for reserved on the Gaudi 2 and spot on the A30: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

Gaudi 2 vs A30 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	Gaudi 2	A30	Difference
Memory
Capacity	96 GB HBM2e	24 GB HBM2	4x more on Gaudi 2
Bandwidth	2,450 GB/s	933 GB/s	2.6x higher on Gaudi 2
Compute · dense
FP8	865 TFLOPS	Not supported	Gaudi 2 only
FP16 / BF16	432 TFLOPS	165 TFLOPS	2.6x higher on Gaudi 2
INT8		330 TOPS
FP32		10.3 TFLOPS
FP64	Not supported	5.2 TFLOPS	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	RoCE 600 GB/s	PCIe only	RoCE on Gaudi 2 only
Board power	600 W	165 W	3.6x higher on Gaudi 2
Released	Q2 2022	Q2 2021	13 months newer on Gaudi 2
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: Gaudi 2 datasheet and A30 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	Gaudi 2	A30
Sesterce France	$1.21 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.58 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Cyfuture AI India	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Denvr Canada	$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Jarvislabs India	--	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand
Leafcloud Netherlands	--	$0.67 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Seeweb Italy	--	$0.32 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Exoscale Switzerland	--	$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand
E2E Networks India	--	$0.96 /GPU/hr On-demand
Leaseweb Netherlands	--	$0.45 /GPU/hr Reserved
AceCloud India	--	$0.67 /GPU/hr Reserved
Massed Compute USA	--	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand