Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	c2-standard-30	c4n-highmem-24
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 30 – Number of CPUs	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 24 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	Compute optimized	Network optimized
Description	Compute Optimized: 30 vCPUs, 120 GB RAM	24 vCPUs, 186 GB RAM
vCPUs	30	24
Memory	120 GiB	186 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Cascade Lake	Intel Emerald Rapids
Coremark Score	531709
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
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	yes
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	yes
Max Local SSD	3000 GB	12000 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

US Dollar ($)

Per Hour

On Demand

Geography	Region	c2-standard-30	c4n-highmem-24
Europe	England (europe-west2)	n/a	2.8528
North America	Oregon (us-west1)	n/a	2.5025
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	n/a	2.5025

Other generations of these machines worth weighing up.