Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | t2d-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 | x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | AMD EPYC Milan | Intel Cascade Lake |
| Coremark Score | 59889 | |
| 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 | 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 | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | 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 | yes | no |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| Avg Price Diff | 1.00x | 77.04x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2d-standard-2 | a2-highgpu-2g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0845 | 7.4959 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.0952 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.0952 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.0978 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.0980 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.0980 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.0997 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.0997 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1015 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1015 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.1015 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0845 | 7.8687 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.1022 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.1027 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.1042 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.1084 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.1085 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.1089 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.1089 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.1089 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.1090 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.1107 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0929 | 8.0275 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.1136 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.1182 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.1199 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.1199 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.1208 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.1341 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.1352 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0929 | 8.0814 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0929 | 8.0992 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0930 | 8.0992 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0930 | 8.6501 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.0930 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.0930 | n/a |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | 0.0558 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0845 | 7.3468 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 7.3468 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0845 | 7.3468 |