Compare GCP Instances
| c4a-standard-72-lssd | n2-standard-80 |
| 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 standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 72 – 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 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 80 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | General-purpose |
| 72 vCPUs, 288 GB RAM, 16 local SSD | 80 vCPUs 320 GB RAM |
| 72 | 80 |
| 288 GiB | 320 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| Google Axion | Intel Cascade Lake and Ice Lake |
| 1365998 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| 0.8678 | |
| 0.733 | |
| 0.6 | |
| yes | |
| yes | yes |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 524288 GB | 524288 GB |
| NVMe | SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) |
| yes | yes |
| 6000 GB | 9000 GB |
| no | yes |
| yes | yes |
| yes | yes |
| gVNIC, IDPF | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 1.24x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c4a-standard-72-lssd | n2-standard-80 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 3.2328 | 3.8847 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 3.5596 | 4.3751 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 3.6411 | 4.4981 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 3.6852 | 4.5063 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 3.7433 | 4.5063 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 3.8148 | 4.5840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 3.8148 | 4.5840 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 3.8148 | 4.6658 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 3.8861 | 4.6658 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 3.9116 | 4.6661 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 3.9279 | 4.6661 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 3.2328 | 4.2732 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 3.9883 | 4.6851 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 4.0415 | 4.7006 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 4.1516 | 4.7199 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 4.2019 | 4.7922 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 4.2351 | 4.9835 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 4.3471 | 4.9887 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 4.6228 | 4.9887 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 5.1334 | 5.0050 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 5.1739 | 5.0050 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | n/a | 5.0051 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 3.3620 | 4.2734 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | n/a | 5.0113 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | n/a | 5.0890 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | n/a | 5.2235 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | n/a | 5.4354 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | n/a | 5.5120 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | n/a | 5.5551 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | n/a | 6.1664 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | n/a | 6.2156 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 3.3944 | 4.2734 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 3.3944 | 4.2766 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 3.5238 | 4.2766 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 3.5596 | 4.2766 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 3.5596 | 4.2770 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 3.5596 | 4.3750 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 3.2328 | 3.8847 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 3.8847 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 3.2328 | 3.8847 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 3.2328 | n/a |
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