H200 SXM vs A100 80GB SXM
Side-by-side comparison of the NVIDIA H200 SXM and the NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM for AI inference workloads.
Specifications
| Spec | H200 SXM | A100 80GB SXM |
|---|---|---|
| Generation | hopper | ampere |
| Memory Type | HBM3e | HBM2e |
| VRAM | 141 GB | 80 GB |
| Memory Bandwidth | 4,800 GB/s | 2,039 GB/s |
| BF16 TFLOPS | 990 | 312 |
| FP16 TFLOPS | 990 | 312 |
| FP8 TFLOPS | 1,979 | 312 |
| INT8 TOPS | 1,979 | 624 |
| TDP | 700 W | 400 W |
| Interconnect | nvlink | nvlink |
| NVLink Bandwidth | 900 GB/s | 600 GB/s |
| Max GPUs per Node | 8 | 8 |
| PCIe Gen | Gen 5 | Gen 4 |
| CUDA Compute Capability | 9 | 8 |
Pricing
H200 SXM
| Provider | On-Demand | Reserved | Spot |
|---|---|---|---|
| lambda | $3.49/hr | $2.69/hr | - |
| coreweave | $4.25/hr | $3.19/hr | - |
| runpod | $4.69/hr | - | - |
| tensordock | $3.80/hr | - | $2.90/hr |
A100 80GB SXM
| Provider | On-Demand | Reserved | Spot |
|---|---|---|---|
| runpod | $2.72/hr | - | $2.09/hr |
| lambda | $1.99/hr | $1.49/hr | - |
| coreweave | $2.21/hr | $1.62/hr | - |
| aws | $3.67/hr | $2.39/hr | - |
| gcp | $3.67/hr | $2.48/hr | - |
| azure | $3.67/hr | $2.45/hr | - |
| vast ai | $1.80/hr | - | $1.30/hr |
| tensordock | $1.79/hr | - | $1.29/hr |
| fluidstack | $1.69/hr | - | $1.19/hr |
Cheapest available rate: H200 SXM at $2.69/hr vs A100 80GB SXM at $1.19/hr — A100 80GB SXM is +126% cheaper
Efficiency Metrics
TFLOPS / Watt
1.4
H200 SXM
0.8
A100 80GB SXM
BF16
VRAM / Dollar
52.4
H200 SXM
67.2
A100 80GB SXM
GB/$/hr
Bandwidth / Watt
6.9
H200 SXM
5.1
A100 80GB SXM
GB/s/W
Models (FP16, 1 GPU)
193.0
H200 SXM
182.0
A100 80GB SXM
Model Compatibility (FP16, Single GPU)
Only on H200 SXM (11)
- Jamba 1.5 Mini
- Amazon Nova Pro
- Falcon 40B
- Mixtral 8x7B
- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51B
- VILA 1.5 40B
- Gemini 2.0 Flash
- Gemini 1.5 Flash
- Jamba Instruct
- Phi 3.5 MoE
- Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
Both (182)
- Yi 1.5 34B
- Yi 1.5 9B
- Yi Coder 9B
- GTE Qwen2 7B
- Marco O1
- Qwen 1.5 MoE A2.7B
- Qwen 2 Audio 7B
- Qwen 2.5 14B
- Qwen 2.5 32B
- Qwen 2.5 3B
- Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B
- OLMo 2 13B
- OLMo 2 7B
- Amazon Nova Lite
- OpenELM 3B
- BGE Large EN v1.5
- BGE M3
- Baichuan 2 13B
- OctoCoder 15B
- StarCoder2 15B
- +162 more
Only on A100 80GB SXM (0)
None
Summary
The H200 SXM (hopper generation) offers 141GB of HBM3e with 990 BF16 TFLOPS and 4,800 GB/s memory bandwidth at 700W TDP.
The A100 80GB SXM (ampere generation) offers 80GB of HBM2e with 312 BF16 TFLOPS and 2,039 GB/s memory bandwidth at 400W TDP.
The H200 SXM has +76% more VRAM, allowing it to run larger models without multi-GPU setups.
From a cost perspective, the A100 80GB SXM is more affordable at $1.19/hr vs $2.69/hr for the H200 SXM.