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a3-edgegpu-8g by Google Cloud Platform

a3-edgegpu-8g is a Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 208 vCPUs, 1872 GiB of memory and 6.43 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.9718 USD per hour.
208 vCPU
1872 GiB Memory
6.43 TB Storage
8 GPU
Spare SCore
167331
(All-cores)
2043
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1720367
Name
a3-edgegpu-8g
Description
Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM
Family
a3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
39
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-21T01:20:10.335761

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
4.6862 USD/h 9.4601 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
5.6759 USD/h 9.4601 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
5.6759 USD/h 9.4601 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
5.1205 USD/h 9.8385 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
4.7102 USD/h 9.9331 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
2.2728 USD/h 10.4165 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
4.8173 USD/h 10.6549 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
4.8173 USD/h 10.6549 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.9718 USD/h 10.7845 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
2.4573 USD/h 10.9737 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
5.2853 USD/h 11.1629 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
6.963 USD/h 11.6709 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
2.3242 USD/h 12.1486 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
4.7041 USD/h 12.1486 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
1.1145 USD/h 12.2981 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
208
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
104
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8481C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
5 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
208 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
210 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, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, tsxldtrk, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
81.9
Scalability
78.75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 TB
Memory Amount Actual
2 TB
GPU
GPU Count
8
GPU Memory Min
80 GiB
GPU Memory Total
637 GiB
GPU Manufacturer
NVIDIA
GPU Family
Hopper
GPU Model
H100
GPUs
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
STORAGE
Storage Size
6432 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
  • 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 platform combining eight high-performance GPUs, massive system memory, and local NVMe storage for intensive parallel computing workloads.

GPU AcceleratedCompute OptimizedStorage & Database

Google Cloud Platform a3-edgegpu-8g is an accelerator-optimized server designed for high-density parallel computing and machine learning workloads. It features 8 NVIDIA H100 Hopper GPUs with 637 GB of total VRAM, paired with an Intel Xeon 8481C processor providing 208 vCPUs and 1872 GB of system memory. Storage is supported by 6432 GB of local NVMe SSD. In benchmark testing, the server demonstrates top-tier performance, achieving a stress-ng multi-core score of 167331.13 and a PassMark CPU score of 125152.39. It also excels in memory bandwidth, reaching 431.78 GB/sec for uncached large blocks, and database operations, processing 177.5 million Redis SET operations per second. This hardware profile is highly efficient for resource-dense workloads but carries a premium hardware class tradeoff. It is best suited for AI training, LLM inference, and high-performance computing.

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

7.03Score
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) 26,065,542 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 13.6 50.00% 50.00% +269.00%
Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 123,452,084 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 10.6 20.00% 20.00% +60.30%
PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,352 2,416 0.973 10.00% 10.00% -0.27%
Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 461,425 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 4.28 10.00% 10.00% +15.60%
PassMark single-thread CPU 3,134 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.33 10.00% 10.00% +2.89%

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Score: 2,121

Geekbench Multi-Core

Score: 19,185

Passmark CPU Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Mark
 125152
Compression
 2693757
Encryption
 168381
Extended Instructions
 191152
Floating Point Maths
 569539
Integer Maths
 798990
Physics
 14782
Prime Numbers
 1023
Single Threaded
 3134
String Sorting
 344477

Passmark Memory Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Memory Mark
 2352
Database Operations
 34439
Memory Latency
 71
Memory Read Cached
 27110
Memory Read Uncached
 9944
Memory Write
 8391

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

Alternatives

Servers of the Same Family

INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
a3-highgpu-1g 26234 GiB1
a3-highgpu-2g 52468 GiB2
a3-highgpu-4g 104936 GiB4
a3-highgpu-8g 2081872 GiB8
a3-megagpu-8g 2081872 GiB8
a3-edgegpu-8g-nolssd 2081872 GiB8
a3-ultragpu-8g 2242952 GiB8

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