Compare GCP Instances
| m2-ultramemx-96 | c4a-highmem-96-metal |
| High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. m – Memory optimized 2 – Generation ultramemx – 6x RAM/CPU ratio 96 – 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 96 – Number of CPUs metal – Bare metal instance |
| Memory optimized | General-purpose |
| 96 vCPUs, 600 GB RAM, 2.9 TB PMEM | 96 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM |
| 96 | 96 |
| 600 GiB | 768 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| Intel Cascade Lake | Google Axion |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 0.8 | |
| 0.6 | |
| 0.4 | |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 524288 GB | 524288 GB |
| SCSI | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 6000 GB | |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, IDPF |
| Infinityx |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | m2-ultramemx-96 | c4a-highmem-96-metal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 6.3729 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 6.6769 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 7.2663 |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | n/a | 5.9412 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 5.6582 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 5.6582 |
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