Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia P100

The A100 is newer, with 5x the memory and 2.6x the bandwidth. The P100 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

5x more on A100

A100: 80 GB

P100: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

2.6x higher on A100

A100: 1,935 GB/s

P100: 732 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

85% cheaper on P100

A100: $0.53 /GPU/hr

P100: $0.08 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	A100	P100	Difference
On-demand	$1.86 /GPU/hr from $0.53	$1.38 /GPU/hr from $0.08	26% cheaper on P100
Reserved	$1.60 /GPU/hr from $0.66 (24 mo)	$1.04 /GPU/hr from $0.22 (24 mo)	35% cheaper on P100
Spot	$0.93 /GPU/hr from $0.27	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07

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 P100: 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 P100 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A100	P100	Difference
Memory
Capacity	80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe	16 GB HBM2	5x more on A100
Bandwidth	1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe	732 GB/s	2.6x higher on A100
Bus width	5,120-bit	4,096-bit	25% wider on A100
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	312 TFLOPS	18.7 TFLOPS	17x higher on A100
INT8	624 TOPS	Not supported	A100 only
FP32	19.5 TFLOPS	9.3 TFLOPS	2.1x higher on A100
FP64	9.7 TFLOPS	4.7 TFLOPS	2.1x higher on A100
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 600 GB/s	NVLink 160 GB/s	3.8x higher on A100
Board power	300 W	250 W	20% higher on A100
Released	Q2 2020	Q2 2016	4 years newer on A100
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP16FP32FP64

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 P100 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	P100
Vast.ai USA	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Jarvislabs India	$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Thunder Compute USA	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$1.22 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
Massed Compute USA	$1.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Packet·ai USA	$1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Scaleway France	--	$1.36 /GPU/hr On-demand
Oracle Cloud USA	--	$1.27 /GPU/hr On-demand
Google Cloud USA	--	$1.51 /GPU/hr On-demand
Alibaba Cloud China	--	$1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand
Database Mart USA	--	$0.22 /GPU/hr Reserved