Ampere
NVIDIA A10
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The NVIDIA A10 is a versatile Ampere GPU with 24GB GDDR6 and 150W TDP.
Ampere
NVIDIA A10G
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The NVIDIA A10G is the AWS-specific variant of the A10, available on g5 instances.
Performance comparison
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NVIDIA A10
Metric
NVIDIA A10G
FP16 TFLOPS
Bandwidth
VRAM
TDP (lower=better)
TFLOPS/watt
GB/s per watt
Full specification table
| Spec | NVIDIA A10 | NVIDIA A10G |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere |
| VRAM | 24 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6 |
| VRAM type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory bandwidth | 600 GB/s | 600 GB/s |
| FP16 TFLOPS | 125 TFLOPS | 125 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 150 W | 150 W |
| TFLOPS/watt | 0.83 T/W | 0.83 T/W |
| GB/s per watt | 4.00 GB/s/W | 4.00 GB/s/W |
| NVLink | No | No |
| Release year | 2021 | 2021 |
Live cloud pricing
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Power efficiency analysis
TFLOPS/watt and GB/s/watt — critical for data center TCO
NVIDIA A10
NVIDIA A10G
TFLOPS/watt measures compute efficiency — how much AI throughput you get per watt of power consumed. For data centers with PUE of 1.2–1.5, a 10% improvement in TFLOPS/watt translates directly to lower electricity costs and cooling requirements. GB/s/watt measures memory bandwidth efficiency, which is the binding constraint for memory-bound LLM inference workloads.
When to choose each GPU
Choose NVIDIA A10 for:
- Inference
- Graphics rendering
- Virtual workstations
Choose NVIDIA A10G for:
- AWS inference
- Graphics workloads
- Multi-tenant AI
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