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a3-highgpu-8g by Google Cloud Platform

a3-highgpu-8g is a Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM, 16 local SSD server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 208 vCPUs, 1872 GiB of memory and 6.17 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.0531 USD per hour.
208 vCPU
1872 GiB Memory
6.17 TB Storage
8 GPU
Spare SCore
167332
(All-cores)
2053
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1720364
Name
a3-highgpu-8g
Description
Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM, 16 local SSD
Family
a3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-02T06:39:17.975864

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
3.8653 USD/h 9.4601 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
5.4122 USD/h 9.4601 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
5.4122 USD/h 9.4601 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
4.0298 USD/h 9.8385 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
3.8832 USD/h 9.9331 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
1.0531 USD/h 10.4165 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
4.0616 USD/h 10.4165 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
3.9724 USD/h 10.6549 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
3.9724 USD/h 10.6549 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
5.1305 USD/h 10.9538 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
2.4771 USD/h 10.9737 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
4.5633 USD/h 11.1629 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
3.3159 USD/h 11.3625 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
5.2297 USD/h 11.6709 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
2.9609 USD/h 11.8251 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
2.4532 USD/h 12.1486 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, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
81.5
Scalability
78.37

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
6167 GB
Storage Type
nvme ssd
Storages
  • 137 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 server featuring eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs, dedicated Intel Xeon processors, and high-speed local NVMe storage for demanding workloads.

GPU AcceleratedCompute OptimizedMemory Optimized

Google Cloud Platform a3-highgpu-8g is an accelerator-optimized server designed for high-performance computing and machine learning. It features eight NVIDIA H100 Hopper GPUs with 637 GB of total VRAM, paired with 208 vCPUs on dedicated Intel Xeon 8481C processors. The system includes 1872.0 GB of RAM and 6167 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Benchmarks place the server in the top tier for multi-core CPU performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations, with strong performance in LLM text generation. This high-density hardware profile is optimized for deep learning, large-scale simulations, and intensive data science workloads.

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

7.16Score
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) 26,654,430 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 14.1 50.00% 50.00% +275.00%
Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 124,358,458 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 10.8 20.00% 20.00% +60.90%
PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,359 2,411 0.979 10.00% 10.00% -0.21%
Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 460,829 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 4.29 10.00% 10.00% +15.70%
PassMark single-thread CPU 3,135 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.33 10.00% 10.00% +2.89%

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Score: 2,123

Geekbench Multi-Core

Score: 19,014

Passmark CPU Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Mark
 124500
Compression
 2653996
Encryption
 166857
Extended Instructions
 185071
Floating Point Maths
 569337
Integer Maths
 795827
Physics
 14781
Prime Numbers
 1017
Single Threaded
 3135
String Sorting
 338535

Passmark Memory Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Memory Mark
 2359
Database Operations
 34384
Memory Latency
 71
Memory Read Cached
 27762
Memory Read Uncached
 9821
Memory Write
 8556

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

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INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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a3-highgpu-2g 52468 GiB2
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a3-megagpu-8g 2081872 GiB8
a3-edgegpu-8g 2081872 GiB8
a3-edgegpu-8g-nolssd 2081872 GiB8
a3-ultragpu-8g 2242952 GiB8

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