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Probably, but the A100 BIOS probably can detect it is running on something other than a A100 and bail.

The lack of memory would be the most obvious difference. The A100 has 80GB, this has 8GB.

And I really suspect Nvidia probably some way of explicitly locking a chip to a given product ID, like efuses that the BIOS firmware can check on boot.

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You can just buy same chip if someone somehow decided to check random flash chip vendor.

More sensible way to stopping that would be writing eeprom with encrypted key burned into the GPU itself but I doubt NVIDIA bothered, money loss for few people willing enough to take their GPU apart to replace a chip is insignificiant.

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