Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia A30

The A100 has 3.3x the memory and 2.1x the bandwidth. The A30 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

3.3x more on A100

A100: 80 GB

A30: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.1x higher on A100

A100: 1,935 GB/s

A30: 933 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

Within 5%

A100: $0.43 /GPU/hr

A30: $0.41 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A100	A30	Difference
On-demand	$1.88 /GPU/hr from $0.43	$0.68 /GPU/hr from $0.41	64% cheaper on A30
Reserved	$1.60 /GPU/hr from $0.51 (1 mo)	$0.57 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	64% cheaper on A30
Spot	$0.98 /GPU/hr from $0.24	-- /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 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

A100 vs A30 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A100	A30	Difference
Memory
Capacity	80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe	24 GB HBM2	3.3x more on A100
Bandwidth	1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe	933 GB/s	2.1x higher on A100
Bus width	5,120-bit
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	312 TFLOPS	165 TFLOPS	89% higher on A100
INT8	624 TOPS	330 TOPS	89% higher on A100
FP32	19.5 TFLOPS	10.3 TFLOPS	89% higher on A100
FP64	9.7 TFLOPS	5.2 TFLOPS	87% higher on A100
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 600 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on A100 only
Board power	300 W	165 W	82% higher on A100
Released	Q2 2020	Q2 2021	11 months newer on A30
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

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

Source: A100 datasheet and A30 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	A100	A30
Jarvislabs India	$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand
Massed Compute USA	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand
Vast.ai USA	$0.43 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.43 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Runpod USA	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Thunder Compute USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Hyperstack UK	$1.40 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Leafcloud Netherlands	--	$0.68 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Exoscale Switzerland	--	$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand
Leaseweb Netherlands	--	$0.45 /GPU/hr Reserved
AceCloud India	--	$0.67 /GPU/hr Reserved
Sesterce France	--	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand