Compare GCP Instances
| t2a-standard-4 | g2-standard-4 |
| Tau T-instances where each vCPU is equivalent to an entire core that gives cost-effective performance. Scale-out workloads, Web servers, Containerized microservices. t – General purpose with entire core 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs | Accelerator Optimized for Graphics-intensive workloads, Video streaming and transcoding, remote virtual workstations, digital twins Inference. g – Graphics-intensive workloads 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Accelerator optimized |
| 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM | Graphics Optimized: 1 NVIDIA L4 GPU, 4 vCPUs, 16GB RAM |
| 4 | 4 |
| 16 GiB | 16 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| Ampere Altra | Intel Cascade Lake |
| 94096 | 56273 |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| 1 | |
| nvidia-l4 | |
| 24 | |
| no | no |
| 0.8 | |
| 0.6 | |
| 0.4 | |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 3000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 4.88x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | t2a-standard-4 | g2-standard-4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | n/a | 0.7358 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.8720 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.9077 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.9077 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.9757 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 1.1309 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | n/a | 0.7429 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | n/a | 0.7783 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | n/a | 0.7783 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | n/a | 0.7783 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | n/a | 0.7961 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.8048 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.8184 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.8330 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1540 | n/a |
| Europe | Netherlands (europe-west4) | 0.1618 | n/a |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 0.7068 |
| APAC | Singapore (asia-southeast1) | 0.1899 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | n/a | 0.7068 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.7045 |
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