a3-edgegpu-8g-nolssd by Google Cloud Platform

a3-edgegpu-8g-nolssd is a Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM, No LocalSSD server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 208 vCPUs, 1872 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.1145 USD per hour.
208 vCPU
1872 GiB Memory
8 GPU
Spare SCore
166,458
(All-cores)
2,047
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1720368
Name
a3-edgegpu-8g-nolssd
Description
Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM, No LocalSSD
Family
a3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
28.6
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-14T19:11:00.829310

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
5.3982 USD/h 9.4601 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
5.6622 USD/h 9.4601 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
5.6622 USD/h 9.4601 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
5.3367 USD/h 9.8385 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
5.1682 USD/h 9.9331 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
2.4989 USD/h 10.4165 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
4.7954 USD/h 10.6549 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
5.0197 USD/h 10.6549 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
1.176 USD/h 10.7845 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
3.2802 USD/h 10.9737 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
6.6972 USD/h 11.1629 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
7.0025 USD/h 11.6709 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
2.0923 USD/h 12.1486 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
4.2361 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, vmx, 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, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, 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, vnmi, 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
81.3
Scalability
78.17

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: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 (Memory amount: 81559, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.CF.00.01, Clock rate: 1980)
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 server featuring eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs and dedicated Intel Xeon processors for high-density parallel computing and LLM inference.

    GPU AcceleratedCompute Optimized

    Google Cloud Platform a3-edgegpu-8g-nolssd is an accelerator-optimized server designed for highly parallel, compute-intensive workloads. It features eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs with 637 GB of total VRAM, paired with 208 vCPUs from dedicated Intel Xeon 8481C processors running at 2.7 GHz. The system is equipped with 1872 GB of RAM, though it lacks local SSD storage, requiring external storage configurations. Benchmarks indicate top-tier multi-core CPU performance, exceptional memory bandwidth, and superior LLM inference capabilities, particularly for prompt processing and text generation on medium-sized models. Conversely, single-core performance and memory scores remain average. This high-density hardware profile is qualitatively cost-efficient for massive parallel processing but represents a tradeoff for single-threaded tasks or workloads requiring local high-speed disk storage. It is highly suited for large-scale AI training, LLM inference, and complex data science pipelines.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    6.33Score
    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) 22,557,621 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 11.8 50.00% 50.00% +244.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 113,037,618 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 9.68 20.00% 20.00% +57.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,168 2,418 0.897 10.00% 10.00% -1.08%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 454,651 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 4.2 10.00% 10.00% +15.40%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,072 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.66%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,109

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 18,961

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 120168
    Compression
    		 2482042
    Encryption
    		 160627
    Extended Instructions
    		 163937
    Floating Point Maths
    		 565765
    Integer Maths
    		 794187
    Physics
    		 14269
    Prime Numbers
    		 935
    Single Threaded
    		 3072
    String Sorting
    		 315345

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2168
    Database Operations
    		 32473
    Memory Latency
    		 81
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27997
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9285
    Memory Write
    		 8207

    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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    a3-megagpu-8g 2081872 GiB8
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