Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | c4a-highmem-2 | a3-highgpu-2g |
|---|---|---|
| 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 2 – 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 2g – Number of GPUs |
| Instance Family | General-purpose | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 2 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 52 vCPUs, 468GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 2 | 52 |
| Memory | 16 GiB | 468 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | arm64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Google Axion | Intel Sapphire Rapids |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 2 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-h100-80gb | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 468 | |
| 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 | 524288 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-2 | a3-highgpu-2g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1179 | 22.8364 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1391 | 26.3739 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1391 | 27.4476 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1417 | 27.9543 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1454 | 28.3888 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1474 | 31.4471 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1514 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1532 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1226 | 24.1781 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1238 | 24.1781 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1285 | 24.7314 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1298 | 24.7314 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1298 | 25.4253 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1328 | 25.4714 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1344 | 25.4714 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1365 | 25.9106 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1179 | 21.9581 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 21.9581 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.1179 | n/a |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.1179 | 21.9581 |