Compare GCP Instances
| c3d-highmem-4 | c4a-highmem-4-lssd |
| 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 highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – 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 4 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD |
| General-purpose | General-purpose |
| 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM | 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, 1 local SSD |
| 4 | 4 |
| 32 GiB | 32 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| AMD EPYC Genoa | Google Axion |
| 94477 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 16 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| yes | yes |
| 12000 GB | 6000 GB |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| yes | yes |
| gVNIC | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 1.01x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c3d-highmem-4 | c4a-highmem-4-lssd |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.2449 | 0.2358 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.2792 | 0.2596 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.2836 | 0.2655 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.2890 | 0.2688 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.3022 | 0.2730 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.3919 | 0.2782 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | n/a | 0.2782 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | n/a | 0.2782 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | n/a | 0.2834 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | n/a | 0.2853 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | n/a | 0.2865 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.2547 | 0.2358 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | n/a | 0.2909 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | n/a | 0.2947 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | n/a | 0.3028 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | n/a | 0.3064 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | n/a | 0.3088 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | n/a | 0.3170 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | n/a | 0.3371 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | n/a | 0.3744 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2572 | 0.2452 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2572 | 0.2476 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2670 | 0.2476 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2694 | 0.2570 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.2697 | 0.2596 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.2697 | 0.2596 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.2759 | 0.2596 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.2449 | 0.2358 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.2449 | 0.2358 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.2449 | 0.2358 |
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