Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	n4a-highmem-64	c4a-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. n – General purpose 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 64 – 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 64 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	64 vCPUs, 512 GB RAM	64 vCPUs, 512 GB RAM
vCPUs	64	64
Memory	512 GiB	512 GiB
CPU Architecture	arm64	arm64
Processor	Google Axion	Google Axion
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Extended Memory	yes
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	yes	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	64
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	1.26x

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Geography	Region	n4a-highmem-64	c4a-highmem-64
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	3.2346	3.7722
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	n/a	4.1535
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	n/a	4.2486
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	n/a	4.3000
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	n/a	4.3678
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	n/a	4.4513
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	n/a	4.4513
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	n/a	4.4513
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	n/a	4.5345
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	n/a	4.5643
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	n/a	4.5832
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	3.3958	3.7722
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	n/a	4.6537
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	n/a	4.7158
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	n/a	4.8442
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	n/a	4.9024
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	n/a	4.9415
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	n/a	5.0724
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	n/a	5.3940
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	n/a	5.9898
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	3.5597	3.9228
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	3.6864	3.9608
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	3.8157	3.9608
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	3.9885	4.1117
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	n/a	4.1535
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	n/a	4.1535
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	n/a	4.1535
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	3.2346	3.7722
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	3.2346	3.7722
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	3.2346	3.7722

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