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a2-ultragpu-8g by Google Cloud Platform

a2-ultragpu-8g is a Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs, 96 vCPUs, 1360GB RAM, 8 local SSD server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 96 vCPUs, 1360 GiB of memory and 3.22 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 3.4983 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
1360 GiB Memory
3.22 TB Storage
8 GPU
Spare SCore
75780
(All-cores)
1201
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1020096
Name
a2-ultragpu-8g
Description
Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs, 96 vCPUs, 1360GB RAM, 8 local SSD
Family
a2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-01T07:29:05.061646

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
3.4983 USD/h 8.797 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
4.6173 USD/h 8.797 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
4.3746 USD/h 9.684 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
5.9442 USD/h 9.9066 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
6.5114 USD/h 10.8513 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
2.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
39 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
77 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
63.1
Scalability
131.46

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
1 TB
Memory Amount Actual
1 TB
GPU
GPU Count
8
GPU Memory Min
80 GiB
GPU Memory Total
640 GiB
GPU Manufacturer
NVIDIA
GPU Family
Ampere
GPU Model
A100
GPUs
  • NVIDIA Ampere NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB (Memory amount: 81920, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 92.00.94.00.04, Clock rate: 1410)
  • NVIDIA Ampere NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB (Memory amount: 81920, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 92.00.94.00.04, Clock rate: 1410)
  • NVIDIA Ampere NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB (Memory amount: 81920, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 92.00.94.00.04, Clock rate: 1410)
  • NVIDIA Ampere NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB (Memory amount: 81920, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 92.00.94.00.04, Clock rate: 1410)
  • NVIDIA Ampere NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB (Memory amount: 81920, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 92.00.94.00.04, Clock rate: 1410)
  • NVIDIA Ampere NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB (Memory amount: 81920, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 92.00.94.00.04, Clock rate: 1410)
  • NVIDIA Ampere NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB (Memory amount: 81920, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 92.00.94.00.04, Clock rate: 1410)
  • NVIDIA Ampere NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB (Memory amount: 81920, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 92.00.94.00.04, Clock rate: 1410)
STORAGE
Storage Size
3216 GB
Storage Type
nvme ssd
Storages
  • 402 GB nvme ssd
  • 402 GB nvme ssd
  • 402 GB nvme ssd
  • 402 GB nvme ssd
  • 402 GB nvme ssd
  • 402 GB nvme ssd
  • 402 GB nvme ssd
  • 402 GB nvme ssd
NETWORK
Inbound Traffic
0 GB/month
Outbound Traffic
0 GB/month
IPv4
0

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

An accelerator-optimized server featuring eight NVIDIA A100 GPUs and high-capacity NVMe storage for demanding machine learning and parallel computing workloads.

GPU AcceleratedMemory OptimizedStorage & Database

Google Cloud Platform a2-ultragpu-8g is an accelerator-optimized server designed for intensive parallel computing and machine learning workloads. It features eight NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs with 640 GB of total VRAM, paired with 96 Intel Xeon vCPUs and 1360.0 GB of system memory. Storage is supported by 3216 GB of local NVMe SSDs. While single-core CPU performance is relatively weak, the server excels in multi-core processing, memory read bandwidth, and large language model inference, where it achieves top-tier prompt processing speeds. This high-density hardware configuration is optimized for deep learning, LLM serving, ray tracing, and high-throughput database operations.

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

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Performance

Workload Profiles

2.43Score
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) 6,657,746 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 3.51 50.00% 50.00% +87.30%
Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 38,935,432 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 3.37 20.00% 20.00% +27.50%
PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,374 2,411 0.985 10.00% 10.00% -0.15%
Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 178,306 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.66 10.00% 10.00% +5.20%
PassMark single-thread CPU 1,696 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.718 10.00% 10.00% -3.26%

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Score: 1,060

Geekbench Multi-Core

Score: 11,609

Passmark CPU Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Mark
 48614
Compression
 1011247
Encryption
 30571
Extended Instructions
 64383
Floating Point Maths
 135191
Integer Maths
 253165
Physics
 4759
Prime Numbers
 299
Single Threaded
 1696
String Sorting
 113705

Passmark Memory Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Memory Mark
 2374
Database Operations
 19517
Memory Latency
 56
Memory Read Cached
 20863
Memory Read Uncached
 8442
Memory Write
 8537

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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