vcg-a16-3c-32g-8vram by Vultr

vcg-a16-3c-32g-8vram is a Cloud GPU (3 vCPUs, 32.0 GiB RAM, 170 GB NVMe, 0.5xA16 16 GiB VRAM) server offered by Vultr with 3 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 170 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.236 USD per hour.
3 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
170 GB Storage
0.5 GPU
Spare SCore
5,060
(All-cores)
1,706
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
vultr
Name
vcg-a16-3c-32g-8vram
Description
Cloud GPU (3 vCPUs, 32.0 GiB RAM, 170 GB NVMe, 0.5xA16 16 GiB VRAM)
Family
Cloud GPU
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
147.88
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-04T03:07:13.605336

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Atlanta (US) / atl
- 0.236 USD/h
Bangalore (IN) / blr
- 0.236 USD/h
New Jersey (US) / ewr
- 0.236 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / nrt
- 0.236 USD/h
Chicago (US) / ord
- 0.236 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / sgp
- 0.236 USD/h
Silicon Valley (US) / sjc
- 0.236 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
3
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
3
CPU Speed
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
4 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
12 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
16 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, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, cpuid_fault, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, arat, pku, ospke, avx512_vnni, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
3
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0.5
GPU Memory Min
8 GiB
GPU Memory Total
8 GiB
GPU Manufacturer
NVIDIA
GPU Family
Ampere
GPU Model
A16
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    170 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      3072 GB/month
      IPv4
      1

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      An entry-level GPU instance combining dedicated Intel Xeon cores, 32 GB of system memory, and fractional NVIDIA Ampere acceleration.

      GPU AcceleratedMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Vultr vcg-a16-3c-32g-8vram is an x86_64 Cloud GPU server configured with three dedicated Intel Xeon cores running at 2.0 GHz, 32.0 GB of system memory, and a 170 GB NVMe SSD. It features a fractional NVIDIA Ampere A16 GPU providing 8 GB of VRAM. Performance benchmarks show average single-core capabilities, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1343.0, but weaker multi-core performance, as evidenced by a Geekbench multi-core score of 3293.0. Memory bandwidth is also relatively low, measuring 35.06 GB/sec for large block reads. This instance is suited for workloads that benefit from GPU acceleration but have modest CPU demands, such as small-scale LLM inference, where it achieves 125.03 tokens/sec on a 135M model, or lightweight graphics tasks. It offers a qualitative cost-efficient option for developers needing VRAM without the expense of a full dedicated GPU.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.343Score
      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) 451,546 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.235 50.00% 50.00% -51.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,037,463 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.26 20.00% 20.00% -23.60%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,769 2,418 0.731 10.00% 10.00% -3.08%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 73,810 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.683 10.00% 10.00% -3.74%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,171 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.918 10.00% 10.00% -0.85%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,343

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,293

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 5575
      Compression
      		 62528
      Encryption
      		 1795
      Extended Instructions
      		 5298
      Floating Point Maths
      		 11261
      Integer Maths
      		 14668
      Physics
      		 775
      Prime Numbers
      		 45
      Single Threaded
      		 2171
      String Sorting
      		 8596

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1769
      Database Operations
      		 2422
      Memory Latency
      		 80
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22144
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8510
      Memory Write
      		 8124

      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

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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