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| a3-ultragpu-8g | a3-megagpu-8g |
| Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 3 – Generation ultragpu – Extra large amound of GPU memory 8g – Number of GPUs | Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 3 – Generation megagpu – Large amound of GPU memory - 80x RAM/GPU ratio 8g – Number of GPUs |
| Accelerator optimized | Accelerator optimized |
| Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H200 GPU, 224 vCPUs, 2952GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM, 16 local SSD |
| 224 | 208 |
| 2952 GiB | 1872 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Emerald Rapids | Intel Sapphire Rapids |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 8 | 8 |
| nvidia-h200-141gb | nvidia-h100-mega-80gb |
| 1128 | 640 |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 524288 GB | 524288 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| yes | yes |
| 12000 GB | 6000 GB |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, MRDMA | gVNIC |
| 1.00x | 1.14x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a3-ultragpu-8g | a3-megagpu-8g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 86.7599 | 101.5371 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 95.5314 | 103.8609 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 102.1494 | 108.8129 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 115.2678 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 117.5135 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 118.4216 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 119.2514 |
| APAC | India (asia-south2) | n/a | n/a |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 93.4091 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 92.2143 |
| North America | Texas (us-south1) | n/a | n/a |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 86.7599 | 92.2143 |
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