Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	e2-standard-4	n4d-standard-4
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 4 – 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 4 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	Cost optimized	General-purpose
Description	Efficient Instance, 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM	4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
vCPUs	4	4
Memory	16 GiB	16 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan	AMD EPYC Turin
Coremark Score	52043
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Extended Memory		yes
Sole Tenancy	no	no
Nested Virtualization	no	yes
Custom Shapes	yes	yes
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	263168 GB	263168 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	1.11x

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On Demand

Geography	Region	e2-standard-4	n4d-standard-4
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	0.1340	0.1694
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	0.1476	0.2089
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	0.1509	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	0.1509	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	0.1552	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	0.1555	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	0.1555	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	0.1581	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	0.1582	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	0.1610	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	0.1610	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	0.1407	0.1694
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	0.1610	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	0.1610	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	0.1616	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	0.1622	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	0.1628	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	0.1653	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	0.1719	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	0.1719	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	0.1719	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	0.1727	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	0.1461	0.1694
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	0.1727	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	0.1727	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	0.1729	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	0.1756	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	0.1802	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	0.1875	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	0.1902	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	0.1917	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	0.2127	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-39)	0.2144	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	0.1474	0.1779
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	0.1474	0.1865
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	0.1474	0.1908
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	0.1475	0.1931
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	0.1475	0.2000
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	0.1475	0.2037
APAC	India (asia-south1)	n/a	0.1288
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	0.1340	0.1694
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	0.1340	n/a
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	0.1340	0.1694

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