Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | a2-highgpu-1g | a3-highgpu-1g |
|---|---|---|
| Details | Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 2 – Generation highgpu – High amound of GPU memory - 40x RAM/GPU ratio 1g – Number of GPUs | Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 3 – Generation highgpu – High amound of GPU memory - 40x RAM/GPU ratio 1g – Number of GPUs |
| Instance Family | Accelerator optimized | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | Accelerator Optimized: 1 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPU, 12 vCPUs, 85GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 1 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 26 vCPUs, 234GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 12 | 26 |
| Memory | 85 GiB | 234 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Intel Cascade Lake | Intel Sapphire Rapids |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | yes | yes |
| GPUs | 1 | 1 |
| GPU Name | nvidia-tesla-a100 | nvidia-h100-80gb |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 85 | 234 |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | no |
| Sole Tenancy | yes | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | yes | no |
| Custom Shapes | no | no |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 128 | 128 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | NVMe |
| Local SSD | yes | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 3000 GB | 6000 GB |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | no | yes |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | no | yes |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC |
| Avg Price Diff | 1.00x | 3.23x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a2-highgpu-1g | a3-highgpu-1g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 3.7480 | 11.4182 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 13.1869 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 13.7238 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 13.9771 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 14.1944 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 15.7236 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 3.9344 | 12.0890 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 4.0138 | 12.0890 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 4.0407 | 12.3657 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 4.0496 | 12.3657 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 4.0496 | 12.7127 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 4.3251 | 12.7357 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 12.7357 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 12.9553 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 3.6734 | 10.9791 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | 3.6734 | 10.9791 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 3.6734 | n/a |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 10.9791 |