Compare GCP Instances
| c2-standard-8 | t2d-standard-8 |
| 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 8 – 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 8 – Number of CPUs |
| Compute optimized | General-purpose |
| Compute Optimized: 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM | 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM |
| 8 | 8 |
| 32 GiB | 32 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Cascade Lake | AMD EPYC Milan |
| 146712 | 238534 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 0.8678 | |
| 0.733 | |
| 0.6 | |
| yes | no |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| yes | no |
| 3000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| Infinityx |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c2-standard-8 | t2d-standard-8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 0.3380 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.3806 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.3806 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.3913 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.3920 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.3920 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.3988 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.3988 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.4059 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.4059 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 0.4059 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 0.3380 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 0.4089 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 0.4106 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 0.4169 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | n/a | 0.4336 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | n/a | 0.4340 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | n/a | 0.4354 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | n/a | 0.4354 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | n/a | 0.4354 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | n/a | 0.4360 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | n/a | 0.4427 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 0.3718 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | n/a | 0.4545 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | n/a | 0.4729 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | n/a | 0.4796 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | n/a | 0.4796 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | n/a | 0.4833 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | n/a | 0.5365 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | n/a | 0.5407 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 0.3718 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.3718 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.3721 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.3721 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.3721 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.3721 |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | n/a | 0.2231 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | n/a | 0.3380 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 0.3380 |
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