Chip comparison
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU
Side-by-side specs
Straight from each vendor's datasheet. Winner in bold: higher throughput, memory, or transistor count; lower power draw or price. Sparse (2:4) throughput roughly doubles the FP8/INT8 numbers shown.
| Field | NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU | NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | Samsung 8N | TSMC 4N |
| Transistors (B) | 28.3 | 80 |
| Die size | 628 mm² | 814 mm² |
| TDP | 150 W | 700 W |
| Memory | 24 GB GDDR6 | 141 GB HBM3e |
| Memory bandwidth | 600 GB/s | 4,800 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 125 TFLOPS | 989 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 125 TFLOPS | 989 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 1,979 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 250 TOPS | 1,979 TOPS |
| Form factor | PCIe | SXM5 |
| Announced | 2021-04-12 | 2023-11-13 |
| Released | 2021-04-12 | 2024-03-01 |
Robots running NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU
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Robots running NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU
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Common questions
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU has 15.83x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU: 125 TFLOPS; NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: 1,979 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: which has more memory?
NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU carries more HBM (NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU: 24 GB GDDR6; NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: 141 GB HBM3e). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU 0.83 (125 ÷ 150 W); NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU 2.83 (1,979 ÷ 700 W). NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: which is more widely used?
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU: 0 robots and 0 data centers publicly running it. NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU: 0 robots and 4 data centers. Empty here means no operator has said publicly, not zero adoption in the market.
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