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a3-ultragpu-8g by Google Cloud Platform

a3-ultragpu-8g is a Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H200 GPU, 224 vCPUs, 2952GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 224 vCPUs, 2952 GiB of memory and 12.6 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 3.6284 USD per hour.
224 vCPU
2952 GiB Memory
12.6 TB Storage
8 GPU
Spare SCore
180093
(All-cores)
2143
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1722000
Name
a3-ultragpu-8g
Description
Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H200 GPU, 224 vCPUs, 2952GB RAM
Family
a3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
285
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-11T00:56:01.963556

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
5.7884 USD/h 12.266 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
7.3593 USD/h 12.266 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
7.3593 USD/h 12.266 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
6.0377 USD/h 12.7566 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
5.8159 USD/h 12.8793 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
6.0786 USD/h 13.5061 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
5.9472 USD/h 13.8152 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
3.6284 USD/h 14.4739 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
4.2992 USD/h 14.7327 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
224
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
112
CPU Speed
2.1 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8581C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
5 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
224 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
520 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, monitor, 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, hle, 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, wbnoinvd, 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
84
Scalability
75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
3 TB
Memory Amount Actual
3 TB
GPU
GPU Count
8
GPU Memory Min
140 GiB
GPU Memory Total
1 TB
GPU Manufacturer
NVIDIA
GPU Family
Hopper
GPU Model
H200
GPUs
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H200 (Memory amount: 143771, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.D9.00.02, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H200 (Memory amount: 143771, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.D9.00.02, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H200 (Memory amount: 143771, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.D9.00.02, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H200 (Memory amount: 143771, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.D9.00.02, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H200 (Memory amount: 143771, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.D9.00.02, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H200 (Memory amount: 143771, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.D9.00.02, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H200 (Memory amount: 143771, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.D9.00.02, Clock rate: 1980)
  • NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H200 (Memory amount: 143771, Firmware version: 595.71.05, BIOS version: 96.00.D9.00.02, Clock rate: 1980)
STORAGE
Storage Size
12599 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
  • 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
  • 137 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-capacity GPUs, massive system memory, and high-speed local NVMe storage for parallel computing workloads.

GPU AcceleratedMemory OptimizedStorage & Database

Google Cloud Platform a3-ultragpu-8g is an accelerator-optimized server designed for high-density parallel computing. It features 224 vCPUs from Intel Xeon 8581C processors, 2952.0 GB of system memory, and eight NVIDIA H200 Hopper GPUs with 1123 GB of total VRAM. Local storage is provided by a 12599 GB NVMe SSD. Benchmarks show top-tier multi-core CPU performance, with a stress-ng multi-core score of 180093.2, and top-tier memory bandwidth. However, single-core CPU performance represents a relative tradeoff, scoring in the average tier. This server is optimized for large language model inference, high-throughput database operations, and intensive machine learning workloads.

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

7.8Score
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) 28,732,061 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 15 50.00% 50.00% +287.00%
Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 151,183,179 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 13 20.00% 20.00% +67.00%
PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,379 2,416 0.985 10.00% 10.00% -0.15%
Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 515,217 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 4.78 10.00% 10.00% +16.90%
PassMark single-thread CPU 3,208 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.36 10.00% 10.00% +3.12%

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Score: 1,978

Geekbench Multi-Core

Score: 19,316

Passmark CPU Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Mark
 134560
Compression
 2988732
Encryption
 188470
Extended Instructions
 204838
Floating Point Maths
 609670
Integer Maths
 861641
Physics
 23487
Prime Numbers
 1611
Single Threaded
 3208
String Sorting
 393746

Passmark Memory Scores

BENCHMARKSCORE
Memory Mark
 2379
Database Operations
 34910
Memory Latency
 59
Memory Read Cached
 27814
Memory Read Uncached
 7651
Memory Write
 7542

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

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