Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	t2a-standard-2	a2-highgpu-2g
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 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	Ampere Altra	Intel Cascade Lake
Coremark Score	47054
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	yes
GPUs		2
GPU Name		nvidia-tesla-a100
GPU Total RAM (GiB)		170
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-2	a2-highgpu-2g
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	7.4959
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	7.8687
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	n/a	8.0275
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	n/a	8.0814
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	n/a	8.0992
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	n/a	8.0992
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	n/a	8.6501
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	0.0770	7.3468
Europe	Netherlands (europe-west4)	0.0809	n/a
North America	Oregon (us-west1)	n/a	7.3468
APAC	Singapore (asia-southeast1)	0.0950	n/a
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	n/a	7.3468