Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | t2a-standard-1 | a2-highgpu-1g |
|---|---|---|
| Details | Tau T-instances where each vCPU is equivalent to an entire core that gives cost-effective performance. Scale-out workloads, Web servers, Containerized microservices. t – General purpose with entire core 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 1 – 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 Family | General-purpose | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | 1 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 1 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPU, 12 vCPUs, 85GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 1 | 12 |
| Memory | 4 GiB | 85 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | arm64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Ampere Altra | Intel Cascade Lake |
| Coremark Score | 23509 | |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 1 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-tesla-a100 | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 85 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | no |
| 25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.8 | |
| 50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.6 | |
| 75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.4 | |
| Sole Tenancy | no | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | no | yes |
| Custom Shapes | no | no |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 128 | 128 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | NVMe | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| Local SSD | no | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 3000 GB | |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | no | no |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| Avg Price Diff | 1.00x | 92.98x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2a-standard-1 | a2-highgpu-1g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 3.7480 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 3.9344 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 4.0138 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 4.0407 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 4.0496 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 4.0496 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 4.3251 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0385 | 3.6734 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | 0.0404 | n/a |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 3.6734 |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | 0.0475 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 3.6734 |