Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | a4x-highgpu-4g | a2-ultragpu-4g |
|---|---|---|
| Details | Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 4 – Generation highgpu – High amound of GPU memory - 40x RAM/GPU ratio 4g – Number of GPUs | Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 2 – Generation ultragpu – Extra large amound of GPU memory 4g – Number of GPUs |
| Instance Family | Accelerator optimized | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA GB200 GPU, 140 vCPUs, 884GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs, 48 vCPUs, 680GB RAM, 4 local SSD |
| vCPUs | 140 | 48 |
| Memory | 884 GiB | 680 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | arm64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | NVIDIA Grace | Intel Cascade Lake |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | yes | yes |
| GPUs | 4 | 4 |
| GPU Name | nvidia-gb200 | nvidia-a100-80gb |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 680 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | no |
| 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 | 524288 GB | 524288 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | NVMe | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| Local SSD | yes | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 12000 GB | 3000 GB |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | yes | no |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | no | no |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, MRDMA | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| Avg Price Diff | Infinityx |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a4x-highgpu-4g | a2-ultragpu-4g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 22.6501 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 24.8099 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | n/a | 20.1108 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | n/a | 22.1429 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 22.0953 |