Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | c4a-highcpu-4 | a2-ultragpu-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. c – Compute optimized 4 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs | 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 | General-purpose | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs, 48 vCPUs, 680GB RAM, 4 local SSD |
| vCPUs | 4 | 48 |
| Memory | 8 GiB | 680 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | arm64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Google Axion | Intel Cascade Lake |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 4 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-a100-80gb | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 680 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | no |
| Sole Tenancy | yes | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | no | yes |
| Custom Shapes | no | no |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 16 | 128 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 263168 GB | 524288 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | NVMe | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| Local SSD | yes | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 6000 GB | 3000 GB |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | yes | no |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | yes | no |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, IDPF | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| Avg Price Diff | 1.00x | 129.17x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c4a-highcpu-4 | a2-ultragpu-4g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1515 | 22.6501 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1754 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1788 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1788 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1788 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1821 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1833 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1869 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1946 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1970 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.2425 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1515 | 24.8099 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1576 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1591 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1591 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1668 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1668 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1707 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1727 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1515 | 20.1108 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | n/a | 22.1429 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 22.0953 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.1515 | n/a |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.1515 | n/a |