Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | n4-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 4 – 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, 8 GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs, 48 vCPUs, 340GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 4 | 48 |
| Memory | 8 GiB | 340 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Intel Emerald Rapids | Intel Cascade Lake |
| Coremark Score | 86649 | |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 4 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-tesla-a100 | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 340 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | no |
| 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 | 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 | yes | no |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| Avg Price Diff | 1.00x | 86.68x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | n4-highcpu-4 | a2-highgpu-4g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1531 | 14.9919 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1686 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1686 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1686 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1686 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1724 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1745 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1773 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1776 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1776 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.1806 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1531 | 15.7374 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.1806 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.1806 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.1840 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.1840 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.1852 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.1860 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.1889 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.1914 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.1966 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.1966 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1592 | 16.0550 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.1966 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.1990 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.2005 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.2058 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.2141 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.2189 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.2431 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.2449 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1592 | 16.1629 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1607 | 16.1984 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1607 | 16.1984 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1607 | 17.3003 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1669 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1684 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1531 | 14.6935 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 14.6935 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.1531 | 14.6935 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.1531 | n/a |