Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | c2-standard-4 | a3-highgpu-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 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – 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 4g – Number of GPUs |
| Instance Family | Compute optimized | Accelerator optimized |
| Description | Compute Optimized: 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA H100 GPU, 104 vCPUs, 936GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 4 | 104 |
| Memory | 16 GiB | 936 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | Intel Cascade Lake | Intel Sapphire Rapids |
| Coremark Score | 73269 | |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | no | yes |
| GPUs | 4 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-h100-80gb | |
| GPU Total RAM (GiB) | 936 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | yes | no |
| 25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.8678 | |
| 50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.733 | |
| 75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.6 | |
| Sole Tenancy | yes | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | yes | no |
| Custom Shapes | no | no |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 128 | 128 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 263168 GB | 524288 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | NVMe |
| Local SSD | yes | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 3000 GB | 6000 GB |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | no | yes |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | no | yes |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC |
| Avg Price Diff | Infinityx |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c2-standard-4 | a3-highgpu-4g |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 45.6729 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 52.7478 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 54.8953 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 55.9086 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 56.7775 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 62.8943 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 48.3562 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 48.3562 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 49.4628 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 49.4628 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 50.8506 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 50.9428 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 50.9428 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 51.8212 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | n/a | 43.9162 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 43.9162 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 43.9162 |