Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia A100

The Nvidia A100 is a data center GPU on the Ampere architecture, released Q2 2020, with 80 GB HBM2e and 1,935 GB/s memory bandwidth on the PCIe variant.

High Performance Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia M60

The Nvidia M60 is a data center GPU on the Maxwell architecture, released Q3 2015, with 8 GB GDDR5 and 160 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Budget Datacenter

Memory per GPU

10x more on A100
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80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe
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8 GB GDDR5

Memory bandwidth

12x higher on A100
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1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe
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160 GB/s

GPU interconnect

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NVLink 600 GB/s
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PCIe only

Peak performance (FP32)

4x higher on A100
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19.5 TFLOPS
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4.8 TFLOPS

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

FP32 per watt

2x higher on A100
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0.07 TFLOPS/W
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0.03 TFLOPS/W

Board power

2x higher on A100
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300 W
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150 W

Precision support

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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 FP64 INT4 INT8
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FP32

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Ampere
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Maxwell

Released

5 years newer on A100
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Q2 2020
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Q3 2015

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

Source: A100 datasheet and M60 datasheet.

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

2x higher on M60
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$0.37 / GPU / hr
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$0.75 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.6x higher on A100
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$1.87 / GPU / hr
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$1.14 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

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$0.29 / GPU / hr
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No spot listings

Providers listing it

42 more on A100
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43
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1

Price, last 90 days

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−2%
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Too few providers pricing it

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market.

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia A100 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia M60 on Sept. 7, 2026.