Compare GCP Instances
| n1-standard-16 | c2d-highmem-16 |
| 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 standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – 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 2 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Compute optimized |
| 16 vCPUs, 60 GB RAM | 16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM |
| 16 | 16 |
| 60 GiB | 128 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell, Sandy Bridge, and Ivy Bridge | AMD EPYC Milan |
| 208193 | 354656 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 0.8 | |
| 0.6 | |
| 0.4 | |
| yes | |
| yes | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| yes | yes |
| 9000 GB | 3000 GB |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 1.28x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | n1-standard-16 | c2d-highmem-16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.8360 | 0.9798 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.9128 | 1.1344 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.9128 | 1.1365 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.9129 | 1.1561 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.9129 | 1.1768 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.9196 | 1.1777 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.9375 | 1.1777 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.9750 | 1.1868 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.9750 | 1.2087 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.9750 | 1.2582 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.9792 | 1.2582 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.8360 | 1.0777 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.9792 | 1.2582 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.9955 | 1.2622 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 1.0219 | 1.2622 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 1.0634 | 1.2639 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 1.0784 | 1.3705 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 1.0784 | 1.3907 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 1.2064 | 1.3907 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | n/a | 1.5557 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | n/a | 1.5676 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.8367 | 1.0788 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.8367 | 1.0788 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.8367 | 1.0788 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.8367 | 1.0788 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.8559 | 1.0788 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.8559 | 1.1034 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.8800 | 1.1034 |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | n/a | 0.6467 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.7600 | 0.9798 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | 0.7600 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.7600 | 0.9798 |
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