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Instance Type	c4a-highmem-48	n4-highmem-48
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 48 – 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. n – General purpose 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 48 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	48 vCPUs, 384 GB RAM	48 vCPUs, 384 GB RAM
vCPUs	48	48
Memory	384 GiB	384 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Google Axion	Intel Emerald Rapids
Coremark Score		1027463
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Extended Memory		yes
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	yes
Custom Shapes	no	yes
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	32	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	no
Max Local SSD	6000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	no
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.02x

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Geography	Region	c4a-highmem-48	n4-highmem-48
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	2.8291	2.8565
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	3.1151	3.1453
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	3.1864	3.1453
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	3.2250	3.1453
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	3.2758	3.1453
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	3.3384	3.1453
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	3.3384	3.2173
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	3.3384	3.2564
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	3.4009	3.3075
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	3.4232	3.3135
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	3.4374	3.3135
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	2.8291	2.8565
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	3.4903	3.3706
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	3.5368	3.3706
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	3.6332	3.3706
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	3.6768	3.4338
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	3.7062	3.4338
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	3.8043	3.4563
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	4.0455	3.4706
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	4.4924	3.5240
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	n/a	3.5706
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	n/a	3.6683
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	2.9421	2.9707
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	3.6683
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	3.6683
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	n/a	3.7134
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	n/a	3.7420
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	n/a	3.8411
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	n/a	3.9959
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	n/a	4.0848
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	4.5358
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	n/a	4.5704
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	2.9706	2.9707
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	2.9706	2.9993
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	3.0838	2.9993
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	3.1151	2.9993
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	3.1151	3.1136
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	3.1151	3.1421
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	2.8291	2.8565
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	2.8291	2.8565
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	2.8291	2.8565

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