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Instinct MI300A vs A100 SXM 80GB

RANKED BY DENSE FP16/BF16 TENSOR TFLOPS PER CHIP #10 VS #17 CHECKED 06 SEPT 2026
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Verdict

Instinct MI300A ranks #10 of 20 on Dense FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS per chip (980.6 TFLOPS); A100 SXM 80GB ranks #17 (312 TFLOPS).

Rank 10 of 20 · leads
Dense FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS per chip
980.6 TFLOPS
MakerAMD
Date2023
Verified04 Sept 2026
Evidence
AMD Instinct MI300A product page: "Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 980.6 TFLOPs". Structured-sparsity counterpart on the same page is 1.96 PFLOPs and was not used. Launch date on the page: 6 December 2023. 128 GB unified HBM3. Dense FP16 sits just below H100/H200 SXM (989.5 TFLOPS).
Rank 17 of 20
Dense FP16/BF16 tensor TFLOPS per chip
312 TFLOPS
MakerNVIDIA
Date2020
Verified04 Sept 2026
Evidence
NVIDIA A100 product page, A100 80GB SXM column: FP16 Tensor Core 312 TFLOPS | 624 TFLOPS* and BFLOAT16 Tensor Core 312 TFLOPS | 624 TFLOPS*. Asterisk is "With sparsity". Dense figure used here is 312 TFLOPS. 80 GB HBM2e.
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Source Vendor product pages and official spec documents (AMD Instinct MI355X / MI350X / MI325X / MI300X / MI300A / MI250X / MI250 / MI210; NVIDIA… Last checked 06 Sept 2026
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