Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia GB200

The GB200 is newer, with 2.3x the memory and 4.1x the bandwidth. The A100 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

2.3x more on GB200

A100: 80 GB

GB200: 186 GB

Memory bandwidth

4.1x higher on GB200

A100: 1.94 TB/s

GB200: 8.00 TB/s

Cheapest on-demand

96% cheaper on A100

A100: $0.37 /GPU/hr

GB200: $10.50 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A100	GB200	Difference
On-demand	$1.77 /GPU/hr from $0.37	$16.00 /GPU/hr from $10.50	89% cheaper on A100
Reserved	$1.43 /GPU/hr from $0.36 (3 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $10.58
Spot	$0.96 /GPU/hr from $0.23	-- /GPU/hr from $27.04

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 and spot on the GB200: 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 GB200 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A100	GB200	Difference
Memory
Capacity	80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe	186 GB HBM3e	2.3x more on GB200
Bandwidth	1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe	8,000 GB/s	4.1x higher on GB200
Bus width	5,120-bit
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	10,000 TFLOPS	GB200 only
FP8	Not supported	5,000 TFLOPS	GB200 only
FP16 / BF16	312 TFLOPS	2,500 TFLOPS	8x higher on GB200
INT8	624 TOPS	5,000 TOPS	8x higher on GB200
FP32	19.5 TFLOPS	80 TFLOPS	4.1x higher on GB200
FP64	9.7 TFLOPS	40 TFLOPS	4.1x higher on GB200
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 600 GB/s	NVLink 1,800 GB/s	3x higher on GB200
Board power	300 W	1,200 W	4x higher on GB200
Released	Q2 2020	Q1 2024	4 years newer on GB200
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8

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 GB200 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	A100	GB200
GPU.ai UAE	$0.37 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Vast.ai USA	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Jarvislabs India	$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Lium Distributed	$1.01 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Thunder Compute USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Massed Compute USA	$1.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Packet·ai USA	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Denvr Canada	--	On request Custom
CoreWeave USA	--	$10.50 /GPU/hr On-demand NVL
Oracle Cloud USA	--	$16.00 /GPU/hr On-demand NVL
Azure USA	--	$27.04 /GPU/hr On-demand
AWS USA	--	$10.58 /GPU/hr Reserved
CUDO UK	--	On request Custom NVL
Canopy Wave USA	--	On request Custom NVL
Crusoe USA	--	On request Custom NVL