Compare GCP Instances
| c4-standard-48 | g2-standard-48 |
| 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 48 – Number of CPUs | 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 48 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Accelerator optimized |
| 48 vCPUs, 180 GB RAM | Graphics Optimized: 4 NVIDIA L4 GPUs, 48 vCPUs, 192GB RAM |
| 48 | 48 |
| 180 GiB | 192 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids | Intel Cascade Lake |
| 656106 | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| 4 | |
| nvidia-l4 | |
| 96 | |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| yes | yes |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 524288 GB | 524288 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| yes | yes |
| 18000 GB | 3000 GB |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| gVNIC, IDPF | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 1.66x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c4-standard-48 | g2-standard-48 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 2.3720 | 4.1655 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 2.6119 | 4.9369 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 2.6119 | 5.1389 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 2.6119 | 5.1389 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 2.6119 | 5.4415 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 2.6119 | 6.4027 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 2.6716 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 2.7041 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 2.7466 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 2.7516 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 2.7516 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 2.3720 | 4.2060 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 2.7990 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 2.7990 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 2.7990 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 2.8514 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 2.8514 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 2.8700 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 2.8820 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 2.9264 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 2.9650 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 3.0462 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 2.4669 | 4.4062 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 3.0462 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 3.0462 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 3.0599 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 3.0837 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 3.1075 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 3.1897 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 3.3182 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 3.3920 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 3.7666 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | 3.7953 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 2.4670 | 4.4062 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 2.4905 | 4.4062 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 2.4906 | 4.5071 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 2.4906 | 4.5562 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 2.5855 | 4.6335 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 2.6092 | 4.7161 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 2.3720 | n/a |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 4.0017 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 2.3720 | 4.0017 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 2.3720 | 3.9886 |
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