A sample of the banned NVIDIA A100 accelerator card has been unveiled in China!

Fast technology news on April 16, A100 is the first NVIDIA GPU acceleration card to be banned from sale to China, and recently a special A100 development sample appeared in a domestic "seafood market", and the specifications are completely different from the official version.

As an engineering sample, it has a very different design, filled with non-standard voltage measurement points, a large number of jumpers, and two 8-pin power supply connectors (and an empty solder position).

It took the A100 20BF core, which was theoretically an upgraded version of the A100B, but never appeared.

Miraculously, it can flash the firmware of the A100 SXM version, and it can be used normally, but the power consumption is not normal, and it will always run at the highest 750W.

In terms of specifications, the number of CUDA cores is 7936, which is 15% more than the 6912 in the retail version, but it is still not full blood, and it still shields 256.

HBM2 has a 96GB high-bandwidth memory capacity, which is a lot more than the 40/80GB of the retail version, and the bit width also unlocks the full 6144-bit.

As a sample, the core and memory frequencies are higher, with the core benchmark having 1260MHz, the acceleration is hidden, and the memory reaches 1404MHz.

This seller also posted various versions of his collection of A100 by the way: