<s>
Ampere	B-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
codename	O
for	O
a	O
graphics	B-Architecture
processing	I-Architecture
unit	I-Architecture
(	O
GPU	B-Architecture
)	O
microarchitecture	O
developed	O
by	O
Nvidia	O
as	O
the	O
successor	O
to	O
both	O
the	O
Volta	B-General_Concept
and	O
Turing	O
architectures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Nvidia	O
announced	O
the	O
Ampere	B-General_Concept
architecture	O
GeForce	B-Device
30	I-Device
series	I-Device
consumer	O
GPUs	B-Architecture
at	O
a	O
GeForce	O
Special	O
Event	O
on	O
September	O
1	O
,	O
2020	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Nvidia	O
announced	O
the	O
A100	O
80GB	O
GPU	B-Architecture
at	O
SC20	O
on	O
November	O
16	O
,	O
2020	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mobile	O
RTX	O
graphics	O
cards	O
and	O
the	O
RTX	B-Device
3060	I-Device
based	O
on	O
the	O
Ampere	B-General_Concept
architecture	O
were	O
revealed	O
on	O
January	O
12	O
,	O
2021	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Nvidia	O
announced	O
Ampere	B-General_Concept
's	O
successor	O
,	O
Hopper	B-General_Concept
,	O
at	O
GTC	O
2022	O
,	O
and	O
"	O
Ampere	B-General_Concept
Next	O
Next	O
"	O
for	O
a	O
2024	O
release	O
at	O
GPU	B-Architecture
Technology	O
Conference	O
2021	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Architectural	O
improvements	O
of	O
the	O
Ampere	B-General_Concept
architecture	O
include	O
the	O
following	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Ampere-based	O
A100	O
accelerator	O
was	O
announced	O
and	O
released	O
on	O
May	O
14	O
,	O
2020	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
A100	O
features	O
19.5	O
teraflops	O
of	O
FP32	O
performance	O
,	O
6912	O
CUDA	B-Architecture
cores	O
,	O
40GB	O
of	O
graphics	O
memory	O
,	O
and	O
1.6TB/s	O
of	O
graphics	O
memory	O
bandwidth	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
A100	O
accelerator	O
was	O
initially	O
available	O
only	O
in	O
the	O
3rd	O
generation	O
of	O
DGX	B-Operating_System
server	O
,	O
including	O
8	O
A100s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
included	O
in	O
the	O
DGX	B-Operating_System
A100	O
is	O
15TB	O
of	O
PCIe	O
gen	O
4	O
NVMe	B-Application
storage	O
,	O
two	O
64-core	O
AMD	O
Rome	O
7742	O
CPUs	O
,	O
1	O
TB	O
of	O
RAM	O
,	O
and	O
Mellanox-powered	O
HDR	O
InfiniBand	O
interconnect	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
initial	O
price	O
for	O
the	O
DGX	B-Operating_System
A100	O
was	O
$	O
199,000	O
.	O
</s>
