Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	c2d-highmem-56	n2d-highmem-64
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 highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 56 – 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. n – General purpose 2 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 64 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	Compute optimized	General-purpose
Description	56 vCPUs, 448 GB RAM	64 vCPUs 512 GB RAM
vCPUs	56	64
Memory	448 GiB	512 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	AMD EPYC Milan	AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan
Coremark Score	1242783	1198883
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	yes
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount		0.8678
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount		0.733
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount		0.6
Extended Memory		yes
Sole Tenancy	no	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	no	yes
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)	SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	3000 GB	9000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	no
Hyperdisk Throughput	no	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.06x

Regional Prices

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On Demand

Geography	Region	c2d-highmem-56	n2d-highmem-64
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	3.4292	3.6474
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	3.9706	4.1078
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	3.9778	4.1078
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	4.0464	4.2232
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	4.1187	4.2309
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	4.1221	4.2309
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	4.1221	4.3039
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	4.1536	4.3039
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	4.2304	4.3808
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	4.4036	4.3808
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	4.4036	4.3808
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	3.7721	3.6474
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	4.4036	4.3993
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	4.4177	4.4132
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	4.4177	4.4315
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	4.4236	4.4995
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	4.7969	4.6757
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	4.8673	4.6842
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	4.8673	4.6842
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	5.4449	4.6988
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	5.4867	4.6988
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	n/a	4.6988
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	3.7757	4.0121
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	4.7051
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	4.7781
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	n/a	4.9045
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	n/a	5.1032
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	n/a	5.1754
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	n/a	5.2157
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	n/a	5.7898
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	5.8358
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	3.7757	4.0124
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	3.7757	4.0124
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	3.7757	4.0155
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	3.7757	4.0155
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	3.8618	4.0155
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	3.8618	4.0157
APAC	India (asia-south1)	2.2633	2.4074
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	3.4292	3.6474
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	3.4292	3.6474

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