a3-highgpu-8g


GCP a3-highgpu-8g - Accelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM, 16 local SSD. Available in 16 regions starting from $64117.70 per month.
Instance Typea3-highgpu-8g
DetailsOptimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads.

a – Accelerator optimized
3 – Generation
highgpu – High amound of GPU memory - 40x RAM/GPU ratio
8g – Number of GPUs
Instance FamilyAccelerator optimized
DescriptionAccelerator Optimized: 8 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 208 vCPUs, 1872GB RAM, 16 local SSD
vCPUs208
Memory1872 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64
ProcessorIntel Sapphire Rapids
Shared CPUno
GPUyes
GPUs8
GPU Namenvidia-h100-80gb
GPU Total RAM (GiB)640
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)no
Sole Tenancyyes
Nested Virtualizationno
Custom Shapesno
Confidential Computeno
Maximum Persistent Disks128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size524288 GB
Disk Interface TypeNVMe
Local SSDyes
Max Local SSD6000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksno
Hyperdisk Extremeyes
Hyperdisk Throughputyes
Network InterfacesgVNIC

Regional Availability

North America
California / us-west2
Iowa / us-central1
Mexico / northamerica-south1
Nevada / us-west4
Ohio / us-east5
Ontario / northamerica-northeast2
Oregon / us-west1
Québec / northamerica-northeast1
South Carolina / us-east1
Texas / us-south1
Utah / us-west3
Virginia / us-east4
Europe
Belgium / europe-west1
England / europe-west2
Finland / europe-north1
France / europe-west9
Germany / europe-west10
Germany / europe-west3
Italy / europe-west12
Italy / europe-west8
Netherlands / europe-west4
Poland / europe-central2
Spain / europe-southwest1
Sweden / europe-north2
Switzerland / europe-west6
APAC
Australia / australia-southeast1
Australia / australia-southeast2
Hong Kong / asia-east2
India / asia-south1
India / asia-south2
Indonesia / asia-southeast2
Japan / asia-northeast1
Japan / asia-northeast2
Singapore / asia-southeast1
South Korea / asia-northeast3
Taiwan / asia-east1
Middle East
Israel / me-west1
Qatar / me-central1
Saudi Arabia / me-central2
Africa
South Africa / africa-south1
South America
Brazil / southamerica-east1
Chile / southamerica-west1

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
On Demand
Geography
Region Name
Region
Savings Options
Instance Price
North AmericaIowaus-central1compare87.8325
North AmericaOregonus-west1compare87.8325
North AmericaVirginiaus-east4compare87.8325
HiddenHiddenhidden-1compare91.3457
HiddenHiddenhidden-2compare96.7123
HiddenHiddenhidden-3compare96.7123
HiddenHiddenhidden-4compare98.9257
HiddenHiddenhidden-5compare98.9257
HiddenHiddenhidden-6compare101.7012
HiddenHiddenhidden-7compare101.8857
HiddenHiddenhidden-8compare103.6423
HiddenHiddenhidden-9compare105.4956
HiddenHiddenhidden-10compare109.7906
HiddenHiddenhidden-11compare111.8172
HiddenHiddenhidden-12compare113.5550
HiddenHiddenhidden-13compare125.7886
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Best AI models you can run on this instance

Top open-weight chat models ranked by Intelligence Index that fit in a3-highgpu-8g's 640 GB of GPU memory, assuming the model is sharded across all 8 GPUs. VRAM is estimated from the parameter count at the selected quantization, so treat it as guidance rather than a guarantee.

Chat Models
FP16 (full precision)
Model
Creator
Intelligence
Total params
Active params
~VRAM
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek logoDeepSeek40.3#28158B—379 GB
MiniMax M2.7MiniMax logoMiniMax38.1#42229B—549 GB
Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba logoAlibaba37.1#5127B—65 GB
7 more models fit on a3-highgpu-8g
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