Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | t2a-standard-4 | a2-ultragpu-4g |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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, 16 GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs, 48 vCPUs, 680GB RAM, 4 local SSD |
| vCPUs | 4 | 48 |
| Memory | 16 GiB | 680 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | arm64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Ampere Altra | Intel Cascade Lake |
| Coremark Score | 94096 | |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 4 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-a100-80gb | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 680 | |
| 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 | 524288 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-4 | a2-ultragpu-4g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 22.6501 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 24.8099 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1540 | 20.1108 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | 0.1618 | 22.1429 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 22.0953 |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | 0.1899 | n/a |