China market exclusive NVIDIA A800 performs 30% less than A100

with the growing demand of applications based on artificial intelligence, as ChatGPTand that companies are adapting to their services, too Demand for devices capable of speeding up these tasks is growing. Among them are the NVIDIA solutions that even though China seems to want to move forward independently, they still need this kind of hardware. But due to the restrictions imposed by the United States, some NVIDIA business models cannot be sold in chinafor this NVIDIA has released some custom versions for this market.

This customized version for China, the NVIDIA A800 accelerator and which joins the other custom version H800, it is known to be a reduced version of the well-known NVIDIA A100. A version that, according to tell us on MyDriversyields 30% less than the original version A100, so we have 70% of its power. If the NVIDIA A100 is capable of managing 9.7 TFLOPS FP64, 30% less would stay in 6.79 TFLOPS approximately, as it happens with the performance in FP32 whose original version A100 is capable of offering 19.5 TFLOPS and that in this version cropped stays at 13.65 TFLOPS.

Another problem facing China is the high demand of this type of accelerators, which its price has skyrocketed up to 100,000 yuan, about 13,000 euros, for a version with a performance of only 70%, and with a price that twice that of a full server from a few years ago.

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