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NVIDIAAI GPU · PCIe (low profile)

A2

NVIDIA A2 is a Ampere data-center accelerator with 16 GB GDDR6 and 0.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth.

Ladder rank
#26
AI index (H100 SXM = 100)
3.3
Series
Ampere

Specifications

Dense throughput, no sparsity
Architecture Ampere
Form factor PCIe (low profile)
Process Samsung 8 nm
FP16 / BF16 tensor (dense) 18 TFLOPS
FP8 tensor (dense) —
FP4 tensor (dense) —
Memory 16 GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth 0.2 TB/s
Power 40–60 W
Launch Nov 2021

AI index

Tensor × bandwidth

100 × √((18 ÷ 989.4) × (0.2 ÷ 3.35)) = 3.3

The AI index is the geometric mean of dense 16-bit tensor throughput and memory bandwidth, each relative to the H100 SXM. It is a spec-sheet comparison, not a measured benchmark.

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