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| g2-standard-8 | a2-ultragpu-1g |
| Accelerator Optimized for Graphics-intensive workloads, Video streaming and transcoding, remote virtual workstations, digital twins Inference. g – Graphics-intensive workloads 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 8 – Number of CPUs | Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 2 – Generation ultragpu – Extra large amound of GPU memory 1g – Number of GPUs |
| Accelerator optimized | Accelerator optimized |
| Graphics Optimized: 1 NVIDIA L4 GPU, 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 1 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPU, 12 vCPUs, 170GB RAM, 1 local SSD |
| 8 | 12 |
| 32 GiB | 170 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Cascade Lake | Intel Cascade Lake |
| 111997 | |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| 1 | 1 |
| nvidia-l4 | nvidia-a100-80gb |
| 24 | 80 |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| yes | yes |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| yes | yes |
| 3000 GB | 3000 GB |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 5.84x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | g2-standard-8 | a2-ultragpu-1g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.8886 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 1.0531 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 1.0962 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 1.0962 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 1.1681 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 1.3658 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.8972 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.9399 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.9399 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.9399 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.9614 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.9719 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.9884 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 1.0060 | n/a |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 5.5238 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | 0.8536 | n/a |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | n/a | 6.2025 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.8536 | n/a |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.8508 | 5.6625 |
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