Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	c2-standard-16	t2a-standard-16
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 16 – Number of CPUs	Tau T-instances where each vCPU is equivalent to an entire core that gives cost-effective performance. Scale-out workloads, Web servers, Containerized microservices. t – General purpose with entire core 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	Compute optimized	General-purpose
Description	Compute Optimized: 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM	16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM
vCPUs	16	16
Memory	64 GiB	64 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	arm64
Processor	Intel Cascade Lake	Ampere Altra
Coremark Score	292366	375477
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	yes	no
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount	0.8678	0.8
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount	0.733	0.6
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount	0.6	0.4
Sole Tenancy	yes	no
Nested Virtualization	yes	no
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	263168 GB	263168 GB
Disk Interface Type	SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	no
Max Local SSD	3000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	no
Hyperdisk Throughput	no	no
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff		Infinityx

Regional Prices

Geography	Region	c2-standard-16	t2a-standard-16
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	n/a	0.6160
Europe	Netherlands (europe-west4)	n/a	0.6471
APAC	Singapore (asia-southeast1)	n/a	0.7597