Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | n2-highcpu-4 | 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. n – General purpose 2 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – 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 4g – Number of GPUs |
| Instance Family | General-purpose | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | 4 vCPUs 4 GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, 48 vCPUs, 340GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 4 | 48 |
| Memory | 4 GiB | 340 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Intel Cascade Lake and Ice Lake | Intel Cascade Lake |
| Coremark Score | 66908 | |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 4 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-tesla-a100 | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 340 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | yes | no |
| 25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.8678 | |
| 50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.733 | |
| 75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.6 | |
| Extended Memory | yes | |
| Sole Tenancy | yes | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | yes | yes |
| Custom Shapes | yes | no |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 128 | 128 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 263168 GB | 524288 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| Local SSD | yes | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 9000 GB | 3000 GB |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | yes | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | yes | no |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | yes | no |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| Avg Price Diff | 1.00x | 90.03x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | n2-highcpu-4 | a2-highgpu-4g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1434 | 14.9919 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1615 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1660 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1663 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1663 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1692 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1692 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1722 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1722 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1722 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.1722 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1577 | 15.7374 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.1729 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.1735 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.1742 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.1769 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.1841 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.1841 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.1841 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.1848 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.1848 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.1848 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1577 | 16.0550 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.1850 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.1878 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.1928 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.2006 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.2035 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.2051 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.2276 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.2294 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1577 | 16.1629 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1579 | 16.1984 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1579 | 16.1984 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1579 | 17.3003 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1579 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1615 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1434 | 14.6935 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 0.1434 | n/a |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 14.6935 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.1434 | 14.6935 |