Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	c4d-highmem-16	c4a-highmem-16-lssd
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 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – 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 16 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	16 vCPUs, 126 GB RAM	16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, 4 local SSD
vCPUs	16	16
Memory	126 GiB	128 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	arm64
Processor	AMD EPYC Turin	Google Axion
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	32	32
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	263168 GB	263168 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	12000 GB	6000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	no	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.01x

Regional Prices

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On Demand

Geography	Region	c4d-highmem-16	c4a-highmem-16-lssd
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	0.9637	0.9430
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	1.0986	1.0384
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	1.1159	1.0621
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	1.1179	1.0750
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	1.1371	1.0919
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	1.1372	1.1128
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	1.1372	1.1128
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	1.1585	1.1128
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	1.1889	1.1336
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	1.2046	1.1411
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	1.2376	1.1458
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	0.9637	0.9430
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	1.2528	1.1634
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	n/a	1.1789
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	n/a	1.2111
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	n/a	1.2256
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	n/a	1.2354
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	n/a	1.2681
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	n/a	1.3485
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	n/a	1.4975
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	1.0022	0.9807
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	1.0119	0.9902
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	1.0611	0.9902
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	1.0611	1.0279
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	1.0611	1.0384
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	1.0611	1.0384
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	1.0854	1.0384
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	0.9637	0.9430
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	0.9637	0.9430
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	0.9637	0.9430

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