Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | a4x-highgpu-4g | c4a-standard-4-lssd |
|---|---|---|
| Details | Optimized for accelerated high performance computing workloads. a – Accelerator optimized 4 – Generation highgpu – High amound of GPU memory - 40x RAM/GPU ratio 4g – Number of GPUs | 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 standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD |
| Instance Family | Accelerator optimized | General-purpose |
| Description | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA GB200 GPU, 140 vCPUs, 884GB RAM | 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, 1 local SSD |
| vCPUs | 140 | 4 |
| Memory | 884 GiB | 16 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | arm64 | arm64 |
| Processor | NVIDIA Grace | Google Axion |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | yes | no |
| GPUs | 4 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-gb200 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | no |
| Sole Tenancy | no | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | no | no |
| Custom Shapes | no | no |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 128 | 16 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 524288 GB | 263168 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Local SSD | yes | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 12000 GB | 6000 GB |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | yes | yes |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | no | yes |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, MRDMA | gVNIC, IDPF |
| Avg Price Diff | Infinityx |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a4x-highgpu-4g | c4a-standard-4-lssd |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 0.1796 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.2159 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.2216 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.2306 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.2334 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 0.1868 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 0.1886 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 0.1978 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.2023 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.2047 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.2080 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.2119 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.2119 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | n/a | 0.1796 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 0.1796 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.1796 |