GPU Rent Hub GPUsH100 PCIe vs A100 SXM

H100 PCIe vs A100 SXM: specs, price and which to rent

GPU Rent Hub rents both cards as dedicated bare metal in three United States datacenters, paid in Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Monero, Solana or Litecoin with no identity verification. The H100 PCIe is $1,490 a month and the A100 SXM is $990 a month. Everything below is measured, not argued.

Updated 2026-09-01

$500Monthly price difference

80 GBMemory on both cards

$2.07H100 PCIe per GPU-hour

$1.38A100 SXM per GPU-hour

01 Side by side

What is the difference between the H100 PCIe and the A100 SXM?

Every figure is the one we rent against, taken from the same catalogue the dashboard prices from. Per-GPU-hour is the flat monthly price divided by 720 hours; you are never billed by the hour.

	H100 PCIe	A100 SXM
Memory	80 GB HBM2e	80 GB HBM2e
Memory bandwidth	2 TB/s	2.04 TB/s
Architecture	Hopper (2022)	Ampere (2020)
Cores	14,592 CUDA · 456 Tensor	6,912 CUDA · 432 Tensor
FP8	3,026 TFLOPS (sparse)	not supported
FP16	1,513 TFLOPS (sparse)	624 TFLOPS (sparse)
Interconnect	PCIe Gen5 · optional NVLink bridge 600 GB/s	NVLink · 600 GB/s
Board power	350 W	400 W
Host vCPU	16	16
Host RAM	188 GB	125 GB
Local NVMe	1 TB	1 TB
Weekly price	$420	$280
Monthly price	$1,490	$990
Per GPU-hour	$2.07	$1.38
Price per GB of VRAM	$18.62	$12.38
In stock now	27	78

02 Verdict

Which should you rent?

Both cards carry 80 GB, so capacity is not what decides this one. The H100 PCIe supports FP8 and the A100 SXM does not, which roughly halves the memory a quantised model needs and is the largest practical difference between the two. Bandwidth is 2 TB/s against 2.04 TB/s, and for single-stream token generation it is bandwidth that sets the speed, not the FLOPS figure on the spec sheet. The H100 PCIe costs 51% more per month, $1,490 against $990, or $2.07 against $1.38 per GPU-hour.

Work out how much VRAM your model actually needs

Rent the H100 PCIe when

Single-card inference on 70B models in FP8. Same 80 GB as the SXM card, at about 60% of the interconnect bandwidth and half the power.

$1,490/mo · $420/wk · specifications and stock

Rent the A100 SXM when

The cheapest 80 GB card with NVLink. 80 GB of HBM2e under $1,000 a month, the value pick for multi-week runs.

$990/mo · $280/wk · specifications and stock

03 Availability

Where each card is in stock

A dash means the card is on the waitlist in that region. The price is identical in all three, so choose on latency and stock, nothing else.

Region	H100 PCIe	A100 SXM
DFW-1Dallas, TX	14	40
IAD-1Ashburn, VA	9	22
PDX-1Hillsboro, OR	4	16

Datacenter specifications and latency

04 Questions

H100 PCIe against A100 SXM

Is the H100 PCIe better than the A100 SXM?

For anything memory-bound the H100 PCIe wins: 80 GB at 2 TB/s against 80 GB at 2.04 TB/s. For work that already fits in 80 GB the A100 SXM is the better buy, because it costs $990 a month against $1,490 and the job finishes either way.

What is the price difference between the H100 PCIe and the A100 SXM?

At GPU Rent Hub the H100 PCIe is $1,490 a month and the A100 SXM is $990, a gap of $500. Weekly terms are $420 and $280. Both prices are flat and include power, cooling, a public IPv4 and 20 TB of outbound traffic.

How much VRAM does the H100 PCIe have compared to the A100 SXM?

The H100 PCIe has 80 GB of HBM2e and the A100 SXM has 80 GB of HBM2e. Same 80 GB as the SXM card, at about 60% of the interconnect bandwidth and half the power.

Can I rent either card without KYC?

Yes. Both are rented on the same terms: an account is a username and a password, payment is Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Monero, Solana or Litecoin, and no identity document is requested or stored at any point.

Which one is available today?

Stock moves. As of 2026-09-01 there were 27 H100 PCIe and 78 A100 SXM cards free across DFW-1, IAD-1 and PDX-1. The per-region table above comes from the same inventory the dashboard deploys against.

Can I put several H100 PCIe cards in one machine?

Yes. Multi-GPU configurations sit on a single node with PCIe Gen5 · optional NVLink bridge 600 GB/s between the cards, and ordering two, four or eight takes 5%, 8% or 10% off the per-card price.

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