Compare GCP Instances
| a2-ultragpu-2g | a2-highgpu-4g |
| Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 2 – Generation ultragpu – Extra large amound of GPU memory 2g – Number of GPUs | Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 2 – Generation highgpu – High amound of GPU memory - 40x RAM/GPU ratio 4g – Number of GPUs |
| Accelerator optimized | Accelerator optimized |
| Accelerator Optimized: 2 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs, 24 vCPUs, 340GB RAM, 2 local SSD | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, 48 vCPUs, 340GB RAM |
| 24 | 48 |
| 340 GiB | 340 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Cascade Lake | Intel Cascade Lake |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 2 | 4 |
| nvidia-a100-80gb | nvidia-tesla-a100 |
| 160 | 160 |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 524288 GB |
| SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| yes | yes |
| 3000 GB | 3000 GB |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 1.36x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a2-ultragpu-2g | a2-highgpu-4g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 15.7374 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 16.0550 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 16.1629 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 16.1984 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 16.1984 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 17.3003 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | n/a | 14.6935 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 11.0476 | n/a |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 14.6935 |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | 12.4050 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 14.6935 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 11.3251 | n/a |
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