Nvidia A16
Compare prices for Nvidia A16 across cloud providers
April 17, 2025 (updated)
Introduced in 2021, the Nvidia A16 is optimized for virtualized environments, supporting multi-instance AI inference and cloud-based deployments. Its design is aimed at enabling efficient scaling of inference workloads in multi-user setups.
| Provider | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
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Vultr
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1x A16 | 16GB | 6 | 64GB | $0.51 | Launch |
Sesterce
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1x A16 | 48GB | 6 | -- | $0.51 | Source |
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Vultr
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2x A16 | 96GB | 12 | 128GB | $1.02 | Launch |
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Vultr
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4x A16 | 192GB | 24 | 256GB | $2.05 | Launch |
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Vultr
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8x A16 | 384GB | 48 | 486GB | $4.09 | Launch |
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Vultr
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16x A16 | 768GB | 96 | 960GB | $9.19 | Launch |
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Nvidia A16 specs
| GPU Architecture | NVIDIA Ampere architecture |
| GPU Memory | 4x 16 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 4x 200 GB/s |
| Error-Correcting Code (ECC) | Yes |
| NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based CUDA Cores | 4x 1280 |
| NVIDIA Third-Generation Tensor Cores | 4x 40 |
| NVIDIA Second-Generation RT Cores | 4x 10 |
| FP32 | TF32 | TF32' (TFLOPS) | 4x 4.5, 4x 9, 4x 18 |
| FP16 | FP16' (TFLOPS) | 4x 17.9, 4x 35.9 |
| INT8 | INT8' (TOPS) | 4x 35.9, 4x 71.8 |
| System Interface | PCIe Gen4 (x16) |
| Max Power Consumption | 250W |
| Thermal Solution | Passive |
| Form Factor | Full height, full length (FHFL) Dual Slot |
| Power Connector | 8-pin CPU |
| Encode/Decode Engines | 4 NVENC, 8 NVDEC (includes AV1 decode) |
| Secure and Measured Boot with Hardware Root of Trust for GPU | Yes (optional) |
| vGPU Software Support | NVIDIA Virtual PC (vPC), NVIDIA Virtual Applications (vApps), NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS), NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server (vCS) |
| Graphics APIs | DirectX 12.07, Shader Model 5.17, OpenGL 4.68, Vulkan 1.18 |
| Compute APIs | CUDA, DirectCompute, OpenCL™, OpenACC® |
| MIG Support | No |
Source: official Nvidia A16 datasheet.