Compare GCP Instances
| Instance Type | a4x-highgpu-4g | n1-highcpu-4 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. n – General purpose 1 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs |
| Instance Family | Accelerator optimized | General-purpose |
| Description | Accelerator Optimized: 4 NVIDIA GB200 GPU, 140 vCPUs, 884GB RAM | 4 vCPUs, 3.6 GB RAM |
| vCPUs | 140 | 4 |
| Memory | 884 GiB | 3.6 GiB |
| CPU Architecture | arm64 | x86_64 |
| Processor | NVIDIA Grace | Intel Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell, Sandy Bridge, and Ivy Bridge |
| Coremark Score | 52108 | |
| Shared CPU | no | no |
| GPU | yes | no |
| GPUs | 4 | |
| GPU Name | nvidia-gb200 | |
| Sustained Discounts (SUDs) | no | yes |
| 25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.8 | |
| 50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.6 | |
| 75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount | 0.4 | |
| Extended Memory | yes | |
| Sole Tenancy | no | yes |
| Nested Virtualization | no | yes |
| Custom Shapes | no | yes |
| Confidential Compute | no | no |
| Maximum Persistent Disks | 128 | 128 |
| Maximum Persistent Disks Size | 524288 GB | 263168 GB |
| Disk Interface Type | NVMe | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| Local SSD | yes | yes |
| Max Local SSD | 12000 GB | 9000 GB |
| Extreme Persistent Disks | no | no |
| Hyperdisk Extreme | yes | no |
| Hyperdisk Throughput | no | no |
| Network Interfaces | gVNIC, MRDMA | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| Avg Price Diff | Infinityx |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a4x-highgpu-4g | n1-highcpu-4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 0.1559 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.1702 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.1702 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.1702 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.1702 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.1715 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.1748 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.1820 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.1820 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.1820 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 0.1826 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 0.1559 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 0.1826 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 0.1856 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 0.1905 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | n/a | 0.1983 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | n/a | 0.2011 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | n/a | 0.2011 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | n/a | 0.2249 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 0.1560 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 0.1560 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.1560 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.1560 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.1596 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.1596 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.1641 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | n/a | 0.1417 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 0.1417 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 0.1417 |