NVIDIA today unveiled the NVIDIA A100 80 GB GPU—the latest innovation powering the NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform—with twice the memory of its predecessor, providing researchers and engineers unprecedented speed and performance to unlock the next wave of AI and scientific breakthroughs. The new A100 with HBM2E technology doubles the A100 40 GB GPU's high-bandwidth memory to 80 GB and delivers over 2 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth. This allows data to be fed quickly to A100, the world's fastest data center GPU, enabling researchers to accelerate their applications even faster and take on even larger models and datasets.
"Achieving state-of-the-art results in HPC and AI research requires building the biggest models, but these demand more memory capacity and bandwidth than ever before," said Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning research at NVIDIA. "The A100 80 GB GPU provides double the memory of its predecessor, which was introduced just six months ago, and breaks the 2 TB per second barrier, enabling researchers to tackle the world's most important scientific and big data challenges."