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Instance Type	c4d-highcpu-384-metal	c4d-standard-384-metal
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 highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 384 – Number of CPUs metal – Bare metal instance	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 384 – Number of CPUs metal – Bare metal instance
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	384 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM	384 vCPUs, 1536 GB RAM
vCPUs	384	384
Memory	768 GiB	1536 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	AMD EPYC Turin	AMD EPYC Turin
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	no	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	263168 GB	263168 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	12000 GB	12000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	no	no
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, IDPF	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.18x

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Geography	Region	c4d-highcpu-384-metal	c4d-standard-384-metal
APAC	Singapore (asia-southeast1)	18.8050	22.1170
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	15.2427	17.9274

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