Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	t2a-standard-2	a2-ultragpu-2g
Details	Tau T-instances where each vCPU is equivalent to an entire core that gives cost-effective performance. Scale-out workloads, Web servers, Containerized microservices. t – General purpose with entire core 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	General-purpose	Accelerator optimized
Description	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	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Ampere Altra	Intel Cascade Lake
Coremark Score	47054
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	yes
GPUs		2
GPU Name		nvidia-a100-80gb
GPU Total RAM (GiB)		340
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount	0.8
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount	0.6
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount	0.4
Sole Tenancy	no	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	yes
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	263168 GB	263168 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	no	no
Network Interfaces	gVNIC	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	132.66x

Regional Prices

Geography	Region	t2a-standard-2	a2-ultragpu-2g
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	n/a	11.3251
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	n/a	12.4050
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	0.0770	10.0554
Europe	Netherlands (europe-west4)	0.0809	11.0714
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	n/a	11.0476
APAC	Singapore (asia-southeast1)	0.0950	n/a