Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	e2-standard-32	n4a-standard-32
Details	Cost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments. e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – 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. n – General purpose 4 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 32 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	Cost optimized	General-purpose
Description	Efficient Instance, 32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM	32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM
vCPUs	32	32
Memory	128 GiB	128 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	arm64
Processor	Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan	Google Axion
Coremark Score	417535
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Extended Memory		yes
Sole Tenancy	no	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	no
Custom Shapes	yes	yes
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	32
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	SCSI	NVMe
Local SSD	no	no
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	no
Hyperdisk Throughput	no	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.03x

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Geography	Region	e2-standard-32	n4a-standard-32
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	1.0722	1.2320
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	1.1804	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	1.2075	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	1.2075	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	1.2415	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	1.2437	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	1.2437	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	1.2652	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	1.2652	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	1.2877	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	1.2877	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	1.1258	1.2934
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	1.2878	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	1.2878	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	1.2931	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	1.2973	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	1.3027	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	1.3227	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	1.3755	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	1.3755	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	1.3755	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	1.3814	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	1.1687	1.3562
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	1.3814	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	1.3814	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	1.3831	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	1.4045	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	1.4417	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	1.5002	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	1.5213	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	1.5332	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	1.7019	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-39)	1.7155	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	1.1794	1.4042
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	1.1794	1.4534
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	1.1794	1.5194
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	1.1804	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	1.1804	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	1.1804	n/a
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	1.0722	1.2320
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	1.0722	n/a
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	1.0722	1.2320
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	n/a	1.2320

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