Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	n4d-highmem-32	c4a-highmem-32
Details	High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. n – General purpose 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – 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 32 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	32 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM	32 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM
vCPUs	32	32
Memory	256 GiB	256 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	arm64
Processor	AMD EPYC Turin	Google Axion
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Extended Memory	yes
Sole Tenancy	no	yes
Nested Virtualization	yes	no
Custom Shapes	yes	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	32
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	no	yes
Max Local SSD		6000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.16x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)

Per Hour

On Demand

Geography	Region	n4d-highmem-32	c4a-highmem-32
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	1.7789	1.8861
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	2.1937	2.0768
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	n/a	2.1243
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	n/a	2.1500
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	n/a	2.1839
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	n/a	2.2256
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	n/a	2.2256
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	n/a	2.2256
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	n/a	2.2673
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	n/a	2.2822
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	n/a	2.2916
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	1.7789	1.8861
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	n/a	2.3269
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	n/a	2.3579
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	n/a	2.4221
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	n/a	2.4512
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	n/a	2.4708
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	n/a	2.5362
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	n/a	2.6970
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	n/a	2.9949
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	1.7789	1.9614
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	1.8690	1.9804
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	1.9575	1.9804
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	2.0041	2.0558
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	2.0270	2.0768
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	2.1002	2.0768
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	2.1387	2.0768
APAC	India (asia-south1)	1.3531	n/a
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	1.7789	1.8861
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	1.7789	1.8861
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	n/a	1.8861

Other generations of these machines worth weighing up.