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Instance Type	c3-highcpu-192-metal	c4-highcpu-192
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 3 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 192 – Number of CPUs metal – Bare metal instance	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 highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 192 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	Compute Optimized Bare Metal: 192 vCPUs, 512 GB RAM	192 vCPUs, 384 GB RAM
vCPUs	192	192
Memory	512 GiB	384 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Sapphire Rapids	Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
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	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	12000 GB	18000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.06x

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Geography	Region	c3-highcpu-192-metal	c4-highcpu-192
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	8.6691	8.1650
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	n/a	8.9905
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	n/a	8.9905
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	n/a	8.9905
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	n/a	8.9905
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	n/a	8.9905
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	n/a	9.1962
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	n/a	9.3081
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	n/a	9.4542
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	n/a	9.4714
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	n/a	9.4714
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	9.1025	8.1650
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	n/a	9.6347
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	n/a	9.6347
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	n/a	9.6347
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	n/a	9.8151
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	n/a	9.8151
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	n/a	9.8791
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	n/a	9.9205
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	n/a	10.0732
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	n/a	10.2062
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	n/a	10.4855
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	9.5455	8.4916
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	10.4855
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	10.4855
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	n/a	10.5328
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	n/a	10.6145
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	n/a	10.6967
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	n/a	10.9795
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	n/a	11.4220
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	11.6759
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	n/a	12.9652
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-39)	n/a	13.0640
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	10.6950	8.4919
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	n/a	8.5728
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	n/a	8.5732
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	n/a	8.5732
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	n/a	8.8998
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	n/a	8.9815
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	n/a	8.1650
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	8.6691	n/a
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	8.6691	8.1650
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	8.6691	8.1650

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