Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | c4a-highmem-4-lssd | a2-highgpu-4g |
|---|---|---|
| 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 highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD | 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 |
| Instance Family | General-purpose | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, 1 local SSD | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, 48 vCPUs, 340GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 4 | 48 |
| Memory | 32 GiB | 340 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | arm64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Google Axion | Intel Cascade Lake |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 4 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-tesla-a100 | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 340 | |
| 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 | 524288 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 | 59.58x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c4a-highmem-4-lssd | a2-highgpu-4g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2358 | 14.9919 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.2782 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.2782 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.2834 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.2909 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.3028 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.3064 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2358 | 15.7374 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2452 | 16.0550 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2476 | 16.1629 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2570 | 16.1984 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2596 | 16.1984 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.2655 | 17.3003 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.2688 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.2730 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.2358 | 14.6935 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 14.6935 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.2358 | 14.6935 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.2358 | n/a |