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NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM

Ampere datacenter flagship. 80GB HBM2e at 2 TB/s. Still common at cloud providers.

Released 2020

Overview

Ampere datacenter flagship. 80GB HBM2e at 2 TB/s. Still common at cloud providers.

Specs

VRAM80 GB
Power draw400 W
Released2020
MSRP$17000
Backends
CUDA

Models that fit

Open-weight models small enough to run on NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM with usable context.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B · llama
Qwen 3 30B-A3B
30B · qwen
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
32B · qwen
Qwen 3 32B
32B · qwen
Gemma 4 31B Dense
31B · gemma
Qwen 3 8B
8B · qwen
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
32B · deepseek
Gemma 4 26B MoE
26B · gemma

Frequently asked

What models can NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM run?

With 80GB VRAM, the NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM runs 70B models in 4-bit quantization, plus everything smaller. See the model list below for tested combinations.

Does NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM support CUDA?

Yes — NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM is an NVIDIA card with full CUDA support, the most mature local-AI backend. llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, and ExLlamaV2 all run natively.

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