Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	n4d-highmem-64	c4d-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, 504 GB RAM
vCPUs	64	64
Memory	512 GiB	504 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
Extended Memory	yes
Sole Tenancy	no	yes
Nested Virtualization	yes	no
Custom Shapes	yes	no
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	32
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	NVMe	NVMe
Local SSD	no	yes
Max Local SSD		12000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	no
Network Interfaces	gVNIC	gVNIC, IDPF
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.15x

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On Demand

Geography	Region	n4d-highmem-64	c4d-highmem-64
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	3.5578	3.8548
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	4.3874	4.3945
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	n/a	4.4635
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	n/a	4.4716
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	n/a	4.5485
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	n/a	4.5487
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	n/a	4.5487
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	n/a	4.6339
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	n/a	4.7557
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	n/a	4.8185
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	n/a	4.9503
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	3.5578	3.8548
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	n/a	5.0112
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	3.5578	4.0090
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	3.7380	4.0475
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	3.9151	4.2445
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	4.0081	4.2445
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	4.0541	4.2445
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	4.2003	4.2445
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	4.2773	4.3417
APAC	India (asia-south1)	2.7062	n/a
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	3.5578	3.8548
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	3.5578	3.8548
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	n/a	3.8548

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