LLM Roofline
NVIDIA Cloud · SXM · Backend: vllm

Cloud NVIDIA A100 SXM (80 GB) — LLM Sizing & Speed Matrix

Value 80 GB HBM2e cloud workhorse for 70B Q4/Q8 and 109B Scout IQ4_XS.

Reference Pricing
~$1.39/hr Cloud
Usable Memory
79.4 GiB
Memory Bandwidth
2039 GB/s (82% eff.)
FP16 Compute
312 TFLOPS
Roofline Ridge
126.9 FLOP/B
Power (Load / Idle)
400W / 0W

Buy or Rent Cloud NVIDIA A100 SXM (80 GB)

Vendor & Cloud Links
Deploy on Vast.ai Spot GPU
Vast.ai · On-Demand / Spot GPU
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Launch Pod on RunPod
RunPod · On-Demand / Spot GPU
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Run Serverless / GPU on Novita AI
Novita AI · On-Demand / Spot GPU
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Deploy on Vultr Cloud GPU
Vultr · On-Demand / Spot GPU
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Deploy on DigitalOcean GPU Droplets
DigitalOcean · On-Demand / Spot GPU
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All 32 Open-Weight Models on Cloud NVIDIA A100 SXM (80 GB) (Q4_K_M @ 32k)

Model Status Weights Total @ 32k Decode TTFT (4k) Max Safe Ctx
Command A 111B COMFORTABLE 63.9 GiB 69.1 GiB 23.4 tok/s 4.45s 197k
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B COMFORTABLE 62.8 GiB 70.2 GiB 86.8 tok/s 0.73s 81k
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct COMFORTABLE 41.9 GiB 53.7 GiB 30.0 tok/s 2.95s 32k
DeepSeek-R1 Distill Llama 70B COMFORTABLE 40.7 GiB 52.5 GiB 30.7 tok/s 2.87s 118k
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct COMFORTABLE 40.7 GiB 52.5 GiB 30.7 tok/s 2.87s 118k
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct COMFORTABLE 40.7 GiB 52.5 GiB 30.7 tok/s 2.87s 118k
Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B COMFORTABLE 28.7 GiB 36.7 GiB 44.7 tok/s 2.02s 128k
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct COMFORTABLE 26.9 GiB 32.2 GiB 119.9 tok/s 0.55s 32k
Qwen3 32B COMFORTABLE 18.9 GiB 28.3 GiB 57.9 tok/s 1.38s 40k
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B COMFORTABLE 18.9 GiB 28.3 GiB 57.9 tok/s 1.35s 32k
DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B COMFORTABLE 18.9 GiB 28.3 GiB 57.9 tok/s 1.35s 128k
QwQ 32B Reasoning COMFORTABLE 18.9 GiB 28.3 GiB 57.9 tok/s 1.35s 40k
GLM-4 32B 0414 COMFORTABLE 18.6 GiB 22.1 GiB 75.9 tok/s 1.34s 32k
Qwen3 30B-A3B COMFORTABLE 17.6 GiB 21.6 GiB 279.6 tok/s 0.19s 40k
Gemma 3 27B IT COMFORTABLE 15.8 GiB 20.2 GiB 83.3 tok/s 1.13s 128k
Mistral Small 3.1 24B COMFORTABLE 13.8 GiB 20.3 GiB 82.7 tok/s 0.99s 128k
Codestral 22B COMFORTABLE 12.8 GiB 21.4 GiB 78.7 tok/s 0.95s 32k
Qwen3 14B COMFORTABLE 8.5 GiB 15.0 GiB 115.1 tok/s 0.64s 40k
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct COMFORTABLE 8.5 GiB 16.0 GiB 107.2 tok/s 0.65s 32k
DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B COMFORTABLE 8.5 GiB 16.0 GiB 107.2 tok/s 0.65s 128k
Phi-4 14B COMFORTABLE 8.5 GiB 13.0 GiB 134.3 tok/s 0.64s 16k
Gemma 3 12B IT COMFORTABLE 7.0 GiB 10.6 GiB 166.7 tok/s 0.54s 128k
Qwen3 8B COMFORTABLE 4.7 GiB 10.5 GiB 168.8 tok/s 0.38s 40k
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct COMFORTABLE 4.6 GiB 9.9 GiB 180.6 tok/s 0.37s 128k
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct COMFORTABLE 4.4 GiB 7.4 GiB 254.2 tok/s 0.34s 32k
Gemma 3 4B IT COMFORTABLE 2.5 GiB 4.4 GiB 466.8 tok/s 0.21s 128k
DeepSeek-R1 671B OOM 386.4 GiB 390.3 GiB OOM — OOM
DeepSeek-V3 671B OOM 386.4 GiB 390.3 GiB OOM — OOM
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct OOM 233.8 GiB 252.5 GiB OOM — OOM
Llama 4 Maverick 400B-A17B OOM 231.5 GiB 239.0 GiB OOM — OOM
Qwen3 235B-A22B OOM 135.4 GiB 142.6 GiB OOM — OOM
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct OOM 81.2 GiB 89.8 GiB OOM — OOM

Interactive Cloud NVIDIA A100 SXM (80 GB) Simulator

111B Dense · GQA
2039 GB/s · 312 TFLOPS
3. Weight Quantization 4.85 bpw
4. KV Cache
32,768 tok
Compute Roofline
COMFORTABLE FIT Memory-Bandwidth Bound
Max Safe Ctx: 197k
Memory Allocation Footprint 69.11 / 79.40 GiB usable
Weights: 63.93 GiB KV Cache: 2.75 GiB Overhead: 2.44 GiB Headroom: 10.29 GiB
Decode Speed
23.4
tok/s (batch=1)
Prefill Speed
929
prompt tok/s
TTFT Latency
4.45s
for 4,096 tok
Active Params
111.0B
of 111B total
vLLM Production Serve Command 
vllm serve CohereLabs/c4ai-command-a-03-2025 --max-model-len 32768 --quantization fp8
Context KV Cache Total VRAM Decode Status
4k 1.00 GiB 66.52 GiB 24.0 tok/s COMFORTABLE
8k 1.25 GiB 67.61 GiB 23.9 tok/s COMFORTABLE
16k 1.75 GiB 68.11 GiB 23.7 tok/s COMFORTABLE
32k 2.75 GiB 69.11 GiB 23.4 tok/s COMFORTABLE
64k 4.75 GiB 71.11 GiB 22.7 tok/s COMFORTABLE
128k 8.75 GiB 75.11 GiB 21.4 tok/s TIGHT

Buy-vs-Cloud-vs-API Monthly TCO Break-Even

USE SERVERLESS API
Own Hardware/mo
$0.00
193.4h active + power
Cloud GPU/mo
$309.15
@$1.39/hr spot/pod
Serverless API/mo
$275.00
API cheaper

Recommended Hardware & Cloud Deployment

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Hardware FAQ — Cloud NVIDIA A100 SXM (80 GB)

How much usable VRAM / GPU memory does Cloud NVIDIA A100 SXM (80 GB) actually provide for LLMs?

Cloud NVIDIA A100 SXM (80 GB) provides 79.4 GiB usable VRAM after subtracting 0.6 GiB driver/display overhead.

What is the largest Q4_K_M model Cloud NVIDIA A100 SXM (80 GB) can run at 32k context?

With Q4_K_M weights and FP16 KV cache at 32k context, the largest fitting model in our verified catalog on Cloud NVIDIA A100 SXM (80 GB) is Command A 111B (111B total).