# A100 residual value

> GPUQuant’s residual value of one A100: the discounted value of what the GPU can still earn over its remaining life, computed daily from the forward curve, and how closely it tracks Silicon Data’s figure.

Updated 2026-09-06. Canonical: https://gpuquant.com/docs/market-data/a100-residual-value

## What it measures

What one A100 is worth today: the discounted value of the rental income it can still earn over its remaining economic life, in US dollars per GPU, computed daily by GPUQuant from the published forward curve. The A100 was released in November 2020, so age decides most of this figure, which is the reason the model carries age at all.

## How it is built

By GPUQuant, from the published forward curve, with Silicon Data's own model: a discounted cash flow over the curve across the GPU's economic life, where each month's cash flow is the forward rental rate times 730 hours times a scale that stands for utilisation and operating cost. The GPU's age is known from its release date, so the remaining life is the fitted life less the age, and the sum runs over the months that are left. Months past the curve's end use its last point, decayed.

Silicon Data publish the model and none of its constants, so GPUQuant fitted them to Silicon Data's published output paired with the curve that fed each day. For the A100, released on 2020-11-16: a life of 86 months, a monthly discount of 0.344% and a scale of 0.2689. Against the publisher's figure over 515 paired days the mean error is 1.40% and the worst day 4.19%; fitted on the first seventy percent of days and scored on the last thirty, which the fit never saw, the mean error is 1.40%.

> **GPUQuant’s estimate, not Silicon Data’s figure**
>
> Silicon Data publish a residual value of their own behind their portal. This series is GPUQuant's reconstruction of it from free inputs, and the two are never presented as the same number.

## Publication

**Source**

GPUQuant

**Unit**

USD

**Frequency**

Daily, whenever a new curve is published

## What GPUQuant shows

The newest **7 days**, the same window as the curve it is derived from, since a value computed from a licensed figure is shown on the licence's terms. Each day's value is computed from that day's curve as soon as the curve is published.

On [Market Data](https://gpuquant.com/market-data) as Residual value · GPUQuant under A100.

## Reading it beside the others

-   [Silicon Data A100 index](https://gpuquant.com/docs/market-data/silicon-data-a100-index): Silicon Data's modelled figure, which counts negotiated and committed-use deals and sits below any list price.
-   [Ornn A100 index](https://gpuquant.com/docs/market-data/ornn-a100-index): Ornn's transacted figure, the prices A100 rentals actually cleared at.
-   [A100 forward curve](https://gpuquant.com/docs/market-data/a100-forward-curve): What the market expects the A100 rental index to be out to three years.

## Sources

-   [Silicon Data indices](https://gpuquant.com/docs/silicon-data#residual-value), the model in Silicon Data's words and how GPUQuant fitted it.