Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | c4a-highmem-1 | a3-highgpu-1g |
|---|---|---|
| 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 highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 1 – Number of CPUs | Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 3 – Generation highgpu – High amound of GPU memory - 40x RAM/GPU ratio 1g – Number of GPUs |
| Instance Family | General-purpose | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | 1 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 1 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 26 vCPUs, 234GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 1 | 26 |
| Memory | 8 GiB | 234 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | arm64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Google Axion | Intel Sapphire Rapids |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 1 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-h100-80gb | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 234 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | no |
| Sole Tenancy | yes | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | no | no |
| Custom Shapes | no | no |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 16 | 128 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Local SSD | yes | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 6000 GB | 6000 GB |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | yes | yes |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | yes | yes |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, IDPF | gVNIC |
| Avg Price Diff | 1.00x | 190.38x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c4a-highmem-1 | a3-highgpu-1g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0589 | 11.4182 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.0696 | 13.1869 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.0696 | 13.7238 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.0709 | 13.9771 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.0727 | 14.1944 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.0737 | 15.7236 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.0757 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.0766 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0613 | 12.0890 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0619 | 12.0890 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0642 | 12.3657 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0649 | 12.3657 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0649 | 12.7127 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0664 | 12.7357 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.0672 | 12.7357 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.0682 | 12.9553 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0589 | 10.9791 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 10.9791 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0589 | n/a |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.0589 | 10.9791 |