Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | e2-standard-2 | a2-ultragpu-2g |
|---|---|---|
| Details | Cost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments. e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – Number of CPUs | Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 2 – Generation ultragpu – Extra large amound of GPU memory 2g – Number of GPUs |
| Instance Family | Cost optimized | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | Efficient Instance, 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 2 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs, 24 vCPUs, 340GB RAM, 2 local SSD |
| vCPUs | 2 | 24 |
| Memory | 8 GiB | 340 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan | Intel Cascade Lake |
| Coremark Score | 26255 | |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 2 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-a100-80gb | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 340 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | no |
| Sole Tenancy | no | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | no | yes |
| Custom Shapes | yes | no |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 128 | 128 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | SCSI | 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 | no | no |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| Avg Price Diff | 1.00x | 138.23x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | e2-standard-2 | a2-ultragpu-2g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0670 | 11.3251 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.0738 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.0755 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.0755 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.0776 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.0777 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.0777 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.0791 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.0791 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.0805 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.0805 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0704 | 12.4050 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.0805 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.0805 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.0808 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.0811 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.0814 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.0827 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.0860 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.0860 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.0860 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.0863 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0730 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.0863 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.0863 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.0864 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.0878 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.0901 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.0938 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.0951 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.0958 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 0.1064 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | 0.1072 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0737 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0737 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0737 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0738 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.0738 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.0738 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0670 | 10.0554 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | n/a | 11.0714 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 0.0670 | 11.0476 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0670 | n/a |