Nvidia A100 - The most expensive graphics card in the world costs up to 30,000 USD

Nvidia A100 is a high-end graphics card with 80 GB memory, 2 Tb/s bandwidth and is considered the most expensive graphics card today with a retail price of up to 30,000 USD.

The post-pandemic supply and demand fluctuations as well as the global chip shortage have caused graphics card prices to skyrocket. The trend of working from home and playing games on PC is increasing, while cryptocurrency miners and speculators are collecting graphics cards. This leads to scarcity and continues to push up the price of the product.

However, Nvidia A100 is a special name, expensive because it is manufactured using an advanced process, possesses outstanding parameters and processing power.

According to Tom's Hardware, Nvidia A100 is the fastest graphics card that humans have ever made . This GPU possesses 80 GB of memory, provides a maximum bandwidth of 2 Tb/s, nearly 7,000 32-bit CUDA cores and 3,500 64-bit cores, along with more than 400 Tensor cores. Built on the advanced 7 nm TSMC fabrication process, Nvidia A100 packs more processing power while reducing power usage.

DGX 100 is developed for AI data centers with 8 Nvidia A100 cards paired together. Photo: Nvidia.

Nvidia A100 is part of the DGX 100 system , designed by Nvidia for AI data centers. The DGX 100 integrates eight Nvidia A100 cards, optimized to scale to thousands of GPUs, to handle any request.

When paired via Nvidia's NVLink bridges, the bandwidth and computing power of each Nvidia A100 increases significantly. Using MIG (Multi-Instance GPU) technology, it can be divided into 7 GPU instances to run 7 different workloads in parallel.

The DGX 100 system costs hundreds of thousands of dollars along with service fees. Each Nvidia A100 alone has a retail price of up to 30,000 USD, making it the most expensive graphics card in the world .