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Instance Typeg2-standard-8a2-highgpu-1g
DetailsAccelerator Optimized for Graphics-intensive workloads, Video streaming and transcoding, remote virtual workstations, digital twins Inference.

g – Graphics-intensive workloads
2 – Generation
standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio
8 – Number of CPUs
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
Instance FamilyAccelerator optimizedAccelerator optimized
DescriptionGraphics Optimized: 1 NVIDIA L4 GPU, 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAMAccelerator Optimized: 1 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPU, 12 vCPUs, 85GB RAM
vCPUs812
Memory32 GiB85 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Cascade LakeIntel Cascade Lake
Coremark Score111997
Shared CPUnono
GPUyesyes
GPUs11
GPU Namenvidia-l4nvidia-tesla-a100
GPU Total RAM (GiB)2440
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)nono
Sole Tenancyyesyes
Nested Virtualizationyesyes
Custom Shapesyesno
Confidential Computenono
Maximum Persistent Disks128128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size263168 GB263168 GB
Disk Interface TypeNVMeSCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)
Local SSDyesyes
Max Local SSD3000 GB3000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disksnono
Hyperdisk Extremenono
Hyperdisk Throughputyesno
Network InterfacesgVNIC, VirtIO-NetgVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff1.00x3.97x

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g2-standard-8
a2-highgpu-1g
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.88863.9344
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.0531n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.0962n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.0962n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.1681n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.3658n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.89724.0138
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.93994.0407
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.93994.0496
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.93994.0496
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.96144.3251
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.9719n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.9884n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.0060n/a
North AmericaIowa (us-central1)n/a3.6734
North AmericaOregon (us-west1)0.85363.6734
North AmericaSouth Carolina (us-east1)0.85363.6734
North AmericaVirginia (us-east4)0.8508n/a
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