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NVIDIA A800 80GB vs NVIDIA H100 80GB for local LLMs

0 reports on the NVIDIA A800 80GB and 6 on the NVIDIA H100 80GB

Which is faster for local LLMs?

Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 1.7x higher on the NVIDIA H100 80GB (1,935 GB/s on the NVIDIA A800 80GB, 3,350 on the NVIDIA H100 80GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.

NVIDIA A800 80GB
Memory
80GB
Memory bandwidth
1,935 GB/s
FP16 compute
312 TFLOPS
Reports
0
NVIDIA H100 80GB
Memory
80GB
Memory bandwidth
3,350 GB/s
FP16 compute
989 TFLOPS
Reports
6

Estimated by the calculator

The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape.

ModelNVIDIA A800 80GBNVIDIA H100 80GB
Qwen3.8 27B19.7 t/sFP1634.1 t/sFP16
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active116.7 t/sQ4_K_S202.0 t/sQ4_K_S
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active141.9 t/sQ8_0245.7 t/sQ8_0
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active9.4 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM9.6 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM
Qwen3.6 27B19.7 t/sFP1634.1 t/sFP16
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active50.7 t/sFP1687.8 t/sFP16

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