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 |