Nvidia logo

A100 vs V100

The V100 offers 32GB with Volta at 125 TFLOPS, while the A100 provides 80GB with Ampere at 312 TFLOPS. Choose V100 for lower cost, A100 for higher performance.

Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia A100

Previous-gen data center workhorse for AI training and inference.

High Performance Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia V100

Legacy data center GPU with FP64 support for scientific computing.

Mid-Range Datacenter

Memory per GPU

2.5x more on A100
Nvidia logo A100
80 GB HBM2e 40 GB on SXM, PCIe
Nvidia logo V100
32 GB HBM2

Memory bandwidth

2.1x higher on A100
Nvidia logo A100
1,935 GB/s 2,039 GB/s on SXM 1,555 GB/s on SXM, PCIe
Nvidia logo V100
900 GB/s

GPU interconnect

2x higher on A100
Nvidia logo A100
NVLink 600 GB/s
Nvidia logo V100
NVLink 300 GB/s

Peak performance (FP16)

2.5x higher on A100
Nvidia logo A100
312 TFLOPS
Nvidia logo V100
125 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures. Sparsity and tensor-core conventions differ between vendors.

Precision support

Nvidia logo A100
FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 FP64 INT4 INT8
Nvidia logo V100
FP16 FP32 FP64 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

Nvidia logo A100
Ampere
Nvidia logo V100
Volta

Released

3 years newer on A100
Nvidia logo A100
Q2 2020
Nvidia logo V100
Q2 2017

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 V100 datasheet.

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

4.2x higher on A100
Nvidia logo A100
$0.40 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo V100
$0.09 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

1.8x higher on A100
Nvidia logo A100
$1.76 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo V100
$0.97 / GPU / hr

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

Spot floor

2.5x higher on A100
Nvidia logo A100
$0.14 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo V100
$0.05 / GPU / hr

Full price range

Nvidia logo A100
$0.14 - $5.04 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo V100
$0.05 - $4.22 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

21 more on A100
Nvidia logo A100
42
Nvidia logo V100
21

Price, last 90 days

Nvidia logo A100
+2%
Nvidia logo V100
Too volatile to report

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

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

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.

Similar GPUs

Other comparisons in the same class:

View all GPUs

Our data for Nvidia A100 was last updated on Aug. 21, 2026, and for Nvidia V100 on Aug. 21, 2026.