Compare GCP Instances
| c4-standard-16-lssd | g2-standard-16 |
| 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 standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD | Accelerator Optimized for Graphics-intensive workloads, Video streaming and transcoding, remote virtual workstations, digital twins Inference. g – Graphics-intensive workloads 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Accelerator optimized |
| 16 vCPUs, 60 GB RAM, 2 local SSDs | Graphics Optimized: 1 NVIDIA L4 GPU, 16 vCPUs, 64GB RAM |
| 16 | 16 |
| 60 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids | Intel Cascade Lake |
| 223514 | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| 1 | |
| nvidia-l4 | |
| 24 | |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| yes | yes |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 524288 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| yes | yes |
| 18000 GB | 3000 GB |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| gVNIC, IDPF | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 1.44x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c4-standard-16-lssd | g2-standard-16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.7907 | 1.1942 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.8706 | 1.4153 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.8706 | 1.4732 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.8706 | 1.4732 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.8905 | 1.5527 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.9014 | 1.8355 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.9155 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.9172 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.9172 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.9330 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.9330 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.7907 | 1.2058 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.9330 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.9505 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.9505 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.9755 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.9884 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 1.0154 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 1.0154 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 1.0279 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 1.0358 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 1.0632 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.8223 | 1.2632 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 1.1061 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 1.1307 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 1.2555 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.8223 | 1.2632 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.8302 | 1.2632 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.8302 | 1.2921 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.8302 | 1.3062 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.8618 | 1.3284 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.8706 | 1.3520 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.7907 | n/a |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 1.1472 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.7907 | 1.1472 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.7907 | 1.1435 |
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