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Cloud A100 80GB (profile): Local AI & Business Fit

Name: Cloud A100 80GB (profile)
Brand: Cloud

A widely available, often cheaper rentable 80GB card — a practical default for fine-tuning and serving when H100 supply is tight.

Here’s what the Cloud A100 80GB (profile) means for a business that wants to run private AI on hardware it controls: which open LLMs fit, which agents it can power, the AI Business OS tier it suits, and whether to run local, cloud or hybrid.

72/100· Strong

Specs at a glance

Memory: 80 GB
Memory type: HBM2e
Bandwidth: 2,039 GB/s
Approx FP16: 312 TFLOPS
Architecture: Ampere
Process: TSMC 7nm
Power: to verify
Launch year: 2020

Specs are approximate figures. Generic profile; pricing varies and is frequently below H100. Still highly capable for most LLM workloads.

AI compatibility scores

Transparent 0–100 heuristics blending usable memory, bandwidth and compute — relative guidance, not benchmarks.

Local AI (overall)72/100

Document RAG74/100

Coding agents69/100

Multi-agent70/100

Business automation71/100

Compatible LLMs

Open-weight chat, coding and reasoning models from our catalog graded for the Cloud A100 80GB (profile), best fit first.

Qwen2.5 72B
Qwen · 72B · Qwen License
Fits at Q4_K_M (~44GB) with ~26.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~44GBRuns well
Llama 3.1 70B
Llama · 70B · Llama Community License
Fits at Q4_K_M (~42GB) with ~28.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~42GBRuns well
Llama 3.3 70B
Llama · 70B · Llama Community License
Fits at Q4_K_M (~42GB) with ~28.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~42GBRuns well
DeepSeek-R1 Distill Llama 70B
DeepSeek · 70B · MIT
Fits at Q4_K_M (~42GB) with ~28.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~42GBRuns well
Mixtral 8x7B (MoE)
Mistral · 47B · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~50GB) with ~20.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~50GBRuns well
CodeLlama 34B
CodeLlama · 34B · Llama Community License
Fits at FP16 (~68GB) with ~2.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
FP16 · ~68GBRuns well
Qwen2.5 32B
Qwen · 32B · Apache-2.0
Fits at FP16 (~64GB) with ~6.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
FP16 · ~64GBRuns well
Qwen3 32B
Qwen · 32B · Apache-2.0
Fits at FP16 (~64GB) with ~6.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
FP16 · ~64GBRuns well

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Best models by business workload

Best for coding agents

Code completion, review and refactoring on private source.

Qwen2.5 72BRuns well
Llama 3.3 70BRuns well
CodeLlama 34BRuns well

Best for RAG / search

Answering over your documents with citations.

Qwen2.5 72BRuns well
Llama 3.1 70BRuns well
Llama 3.3 70BRuns well

Best for business automation

Document extraction and back-office workflows.

Llama 3.1 70BRuns well
Gemma 2 27BRuns well
Gemma 3 27BRuns well

Good for a private AI Business OS?

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As a rentable cloud profile this hosts AI Business OS agents elastically — ideal for bursts and the largest models in a hybrid setup.

Headline model it can host: Qwen2.5 72B.

Where it falls short

▸Ongoing rental cost and data leaving your premises; less suited to always-on private workloads.

Business agents that make sense

How this machine fits the core AI Business OS agent archetypes:

Customer Support Agent
Answers customers over your docs, drafts replies, triages tickets.
Strong fit
Document / RAG Agent
Reads contracts, reports and wikis and answers with citations.
Strong fit
Legal Evidence Agent (DocMatch-style)
Searches case files and exhibits to surface and link evidence.
Strong fit
Hotel / Hospitality Agent
Handles guest messaging, bookings and front-desk automation.
Strong fit
Accounting / Odoo Agent
Extracts invoices, reconciles data and drives ERP workflows.
Strong fit
Coding / Product Engineering Agent
Local code completion, review and refactoring on private source.
Strong fit
Founder Ops / Business Command Center
A fleet of cooperating agents running the whole business privately.
Capable

“Cloud-assist” means run it locally for light loads and burst to the cloud for heavier jobs. See business use cases for how each agent maps to hardware.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Cloud A100 80GB (profile) good for running local AI?+

It scores 72/100 on our Local AI Score (Strong tier), based on its 80GB of memory and available bandwidth/compute. That makes it suited to the Business AI Business OS tier.

Which LLMs can the Cloud A100 80GB (profile) run?+

Comfortably: Qwen2.5 72B (Q4_K_M), Llama 3.1 70B (Q4_K_M), Llama 3.3 70B (Q4_K_M). Larger models may run with heavier quantization or by splitting across devices.

Should I run AI locally or in the cloud on the Cloud A100 80GB (profile)?+

Cloud-first is recommended. This is a rentable cloud profile — ideal for bursty or short-lived heavy workloads. Pair with on-prem hardware for steady private workloads (hybrid).

Can I turn the Cloud A100 80GB (profile) into a private AI Business OS?+

Yes. AI Business OS can run on this machine at the Business tier, giving you private agents on your own hardware. See the call-to-action above to get started.

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