a2-highgpu-2g by Google Cloud Platform

a2-highgpu-2g is a Accelerator Optimized: 2 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, 24 vCPUs, 170GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 24 vCPUs, 170 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 4.0583 USD per hour.
24 vCPU
170 GiB Memory
2 GPU
Spare SCore
18,976
(All-cores)
1,202
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1000024
Name
a2-highgpu-2g
API Reference Object
-
Description
Accelerator Optimized: 2 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, 24 vCPUs, 170GB RAM
Family
a2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
57
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-17T07:38:24.285564

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
4.408 USD/h 7.3468 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
4.408 USD/h 7.3468 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
4.408 USD/h 7.3468 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
4.0583 USD/h 7.4959 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
4.261 USD/h 7.8687 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
4.8045 USD/h 8.0275 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
4.8488 USD/h 8.0814 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
4.8349 USD/h 8.0992 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
4.8594 USD/h 8.0992 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
4.9181 USD/h 8.6501 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
24
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
12
CPU Speed
2.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
12 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
39 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
39 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512_vnni, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
15.8
Scalability
65.83

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
170 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
170 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
2
Accelerator Memory Min
40 GiB
Accelerator Memory Total
80 GiB
Accelerator Type
GPU
Accelerator Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Accelerator Family
Ampere
Accelerator Model
A100
Accelerators
  • NVIDIA Ampere NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB (Memory amount: 40960, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 92.00.45.00.03, Clock rate: 1410)
  • NVIDIA Ampere NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB (Memory amount: 40960, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 92.00.45.00.03, Clock rate: 1410)
STORAGE
Storage Size
0 GB
Storages
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An accelerator-optimized platform pairing dual NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 170 GB of memory for high-throughput parallel computing and LLM inference.

    GPU AcceleratedMemory Optimized

    Google Cloud Platform a2-highgpu-2g is an accelerator-optimized server configured with two NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs providing 80 GB of total VRAM, 24 vCPUs on an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor, and 170.0 GB of system memory. It does not include local storage. Performance benchmarks indicate a distinct tradeoff: single-core CPU execution is relatively weak, scoring in the bottom 25%, and multi-core CPU performance is average. However, the instance delivers top-tier performance in LLM inference benchmarks, particularly for prompt processing and text generation on medium to large models. Qualitatively, the high resource density of GPUs and memory makes this instance cost-efficient for specialized parallel workloads rather than general-purpose compute. It is highly suited for deep learning, large language model inference, and GPU-accelerated data science tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.93Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 1,844,266 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.95 50.00% 50.00% -2.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 11,433,281 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.92 20.00% 20.00% -1.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,483 2,417 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 114,321 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,693 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,066

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,247

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 19022
    Compression
    		 278622
    Encryption
    		 8685
    Extended Instructions
    		 18027
    Floating Point Maths
    		 34100
    Integer Maths
    		 63469
    Physics
    		 1952
    Prime Numbers
    		 102
    Single Threaded
    		 1693
    String Sorting
    		 32865

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2483
    Database Operations
    		 7693
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 20838
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10561
    Memory Write
    		 9923

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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