This Is The Most Expensive Graphics Card In The World – SlashGear

Meet the fastest graphics card in the world — the Nvidia A100. At least when you’re talking pure benchmark figures, the A100 is as fast as a GPU can be (via Tom’s Hardware). The GPU is sold as part of Nvidia’s DGX 100 system designed for AI data centers. The DGX 100 is a stack of eight Nvidia A100 cards, but it’s optimized to scale to thousands of GPUs to handle anything thrown at it (via Nvidia). The latest-gen A100 has a whopping 80GB of memory with a bandwidth of up to 2 terabytes per second. When paired via Nvidia’s NVLink bridges, the bandwidth and computing power go up considerably (via Nvidia). 

Using MIG technology (multi-instance GPU), it can be split into seven GPU instances to run seven different workloads in parallel. 

The GPU is built on an advanced 7 nm TSMC fabrication process, so it packs more processing power while reducing power usage. Almost 7000 32-bit and 3500 64-bit CUDA cores, coupled with over 400 Tensor cores, handle all the number-crunching. 

The DGX A100 system retails for hundreds of dollars plus service charges. But even the Nvidia A100 graphics card goes for upwards of $30,000, making it the most expensive GPU on the market (via NeoBits).