a2-highgpu-8g
The a2-highgpu-8g is a gcp compute instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for compute workloads.
Last updated at Fri Jun 26 2026
Instance Info
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 96 |
Family Instances
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| a2-highgpu-1g | 12 | 85 |
| a2-ultragpu-1g | 12 | 170 |
| a2-highgpu-2g | 24 | 170 |
| a2-ultragpu-2g | 24 | 340 |
| a2-highgpu-4g | 48 | 340 |
| a2-ultragpu-4g | 48 | 680 |
| a2-highgpu-8g | 96 | 680 |
| a2-megagpu-16g | 96 | 1360 |
| a2-ultragpu-8g | 96 | 1360 |
Related Instances
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| c4-highmem-96-lssd | 96 | 744 |
| z3-highmem-88 | 88 | 704 |
| c4-highmem-96 | 96 | 744 |
| n4-highmem-80 | 80 | 640 |
| c3-highmem-88 | 88 | 704 |
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