Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | c4a-standard-2 | a2-highgpu-2g |
|---|---|---|
| Details | High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. c – Compute optimized 4 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – 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 2g – Number of GPUs |
| Instance Family | General-purpose | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 2 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, 24 vCPUs, 170GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 2 | 24 |
| Memory | 8 GiB | 170 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | arm64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Google Axion | Intel Cascade Lake |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 2 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-tesla-a100 | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 170 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | no |
| Sole Tenancy | yes | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | no | yes |
| Custom Shapes | no | no |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 16 | 128 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | NVMe | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| Local SSD | yes | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 6000 GB | 3000 GB |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | yes | no |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | yes | no |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, IDPF | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| Avg Price Diff | 1.00x | 76.37x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c4a-standard-2 | a2-highgpu-2g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0898 | 7.4959 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1040 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1060 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1060 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1060 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1079 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1087 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1108 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1153 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1167 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.1437 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0898 | 7.8687 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0934 | 8.0275 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0943 | 8.0814 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0943 | 8.0992 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0989 | 8.0992 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0989 | 8.6501 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1011 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1024 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0898 | 7.3468 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 7.3468 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0898 | 7.3468 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.0898 | n/a |