a3-megagpu-8g by Google Cloud Platform

a3-megagpu-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 6.43 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 28.0719 USD per hour.
208 vCPU
1872 GiB Memory
6.43 TB Storage
8 GPU
Spare SCore
167,246
(All-cores)
2,051
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1720366
Name
a3-megagpu-8g
Description
Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM, 16 local SSD
Family
a3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-17T10:07:32.450961

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
44.0788 USD/h 93.4007 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
55.8945 USD/h 93.4007 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
55.8945 USD/h 93.4007 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
30.153 USD/h 93.4665 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
50.9614 USD/h 102.777 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
28.0719 USD/h 105.1799 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
65.4999 USD/h 110.226 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
49.8389 USD/h 116.8166 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
36.4338 USD/h 119.9556 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
63.0008 USD/h 121.2894 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
72.7262 USD/h 121.2894 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
640 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 featuring eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs, dedicated Intel Xeon processors, and high-speed local NVMe storage for intensive parallel workloads.

GPU AcceleratedCompute OptimizedStorage & Database

Google Cloud Platform a3-megagpu-8g is an accelerator-optimized server designed for intensive parallel computing and machine learning workloads. It features 208 dedicated vCPUs from Intel Xeon 8481C processors, 1872.0 GB of system memory, and 6432 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. The primary performance driver is its array of eight NVIDIA H100 Hopper GPUs, providing 637 GB of total VRAM. Benchmarks show top-tier multi-core CPU performance, exceptional memory bandwidth, and high-speed database operations, including 180.65 million Redis SET operations per second. This server is highly optimized for large-scale AI model training, LLM inference, complex simulations, and high-throughput data processing.

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

7.09Score
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) 26,650,892 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 13.9 50.00% 50.00% +273.00%
Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 125,372,253 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 10.7 20.00% 20.00% +60.60%
PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,331 2,418 0.964 10.00% 10.00% -0.37%
Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 459,338 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 4.24 10.00% 10.00% +15.50%
PassMark single-thread CPU 3,141 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.33 10.00% 10.00% +2.89%

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Score: 2,120

Geekbench Multi-Core

Score: 19,116

Passmark CPU Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Mark
 125327
Compression
 2707581
Encryption
 169091
Extended Instructions
 187524
Floating Point Maths
 569260
Integer Maths
 798874
Physics
 15053
Prime Numbers
 1030
Single Threaded
 3141
String Sorting
 344257

Passmark Memory Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Memory Mark
 2331
Database Operations
 33320
Memory Latency
 72
Memory Read Cached
 27494
Memory Read Uncached
 9677
Memory Write
 8535

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-edgegpu-8g 2081872 GiB8
a3-edgegpu-8g-nolssd 2081872 GiB8
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