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Instance Type	c4a-highmem-64-lssd	n4-highmem-64
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 64 – Number of CPUs lssd – Local SSD	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 64 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	64 vCPUs, 512 GB RAM, 14 local SSD	64 vCPUs, 512 GB RAM
vCPUs	64	64
Memory	512 GiB	512 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	x86_64
Processor	Google Axion	Intel Emerald Rapids
Coremark Score		1256257
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	64	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-64-lssd	n4-highmem-64
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	3.7722	3.8086
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	4.1535	4.1937
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	4.2486	4.1937
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	4.3000	4.1937
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	4.3678	4.1937
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	4.4513	4.1937
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	4.4513	4.2897
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	4.4513	4.3418
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	4.5345	4.4100
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	4.5643	4.4180
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	4.5832	4.4180
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	3.7722	3.8086
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	4.6537	4.4942
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	4.7158	4.4942
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	4.8442	4.4942
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	4.9024	4.5784
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	4.9415	4.5784
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	5.0724	4.6085
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	5.3940	4.6275
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	5.9898	4.6987
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	n/a	4.7608
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	n/a	4.8911
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	3.9228	3.9610
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	n/a	4.8911
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	n/a	4.8911
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	n/a	4.9512
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	n/a	4.9893
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	n/a	5.1215
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	n/a	5.3279
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	n/a	5.4464
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	6.0477
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	n/a	6.0938
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	3.9608	3.9610
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	3.9608	3.9991
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	4.1117	3.9991
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	4.1535	3.9991
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	4.1535	4.1514
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	4.1535	4.1895
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	3.7722	3.8086
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	3.7722	3.8086
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	3.7722	3.8086

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