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NVIDIAAI GPU · PCIe

A30

NVIDIA A30 is a Ampere data-center accelerator with 24 GB HBM2 and 0.933 TB/s of memory bandwidth.

Ladder rank
#19
AI index (H100 SXM = 100)
21.6
Series
Ampere

Specifications

Dense throughput, no sparsity
Architecture Ampere
Form factor PCIe
Process TSMC 7 nm
FP16 / BF16 tensor (dense) 165 TFLOPS
FP8 tensor (dense) —
FP4 tensor (dense) —
Memory 24 GB HBM2
Memory bandwidth 0.933 TB/s
Power 165 W
Launch Apr 2021

AI index

Tensor × bandwidth

100 × √((165 ÷ 989.4) × (0.933 ÷ 3.35)) = 21.6

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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