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Instance Type	n2-standard-64	n2-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 2 – Generation standard – 4x 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. n – General purpose 2 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 64 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	64 vCPUs 256 GB RAM	64 vCPUs 512 GB RAM
vCPUs	64	64
Memory	256 GiB	512 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Cascade Lake and Ice Lake	Intel Cascade Lake and Ice Lake
Coremark Score	1091008	1097943
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	yes	yes
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount	0.8678	0.8678
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount	0.733	0.733
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount	0.6	0.6
Extended Memory	yes	yes
Sole Tenancy	yes	yes
Nested Virtualization	yes	yes
Custom Shapes	yes	yes
Confidential Compute	no	no
Maximum Persistent Disks	128	128
Maximum Persistent Disks Size	524288 GB	524288 GB
Disk Interface Type	SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)	SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)
Local SSD	yes	yes
Max Local SSD	9000 GB	9000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Extreme	yes	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.35x

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Geography	Region	n2-standard-64	n2-highmem-64
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	3.1078	4.1924
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	3.5001	4.7215
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	3.5985	4.8544
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	3.6050	4.8632
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	3.6050	4.8632
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	3.6672	4.9471
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	3.6672	4.9471
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	3.7326	5.0351
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	3.7326	5.0351
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	3.7329	5.0356
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	3.7329	5.0356
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	3.4186	4.6117
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	3.7481	5.0560
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	3.7605	5.0730
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	3.7759	5.0938
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	3.8338	5.1716
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	3.9868	5.3741
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	3.9910	5.3839
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	3.9910	5.3839
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	4.0040	5.4012
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	4.0040	5.4012
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	4.0041	5.4014
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	3.4187	4.6119
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	4.0090	5.4083
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	4.0712	5.4923
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	4.1788	5.6371
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	4.3484	5.8659
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	4.4096	5.9484
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	4.4441	5.9952
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	4.9331	6.6547
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	4.9724	6.7079
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	3.4187	4.6119
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	3.4213	4.6153
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	3.4213	4.6153
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	3.4213	4.6153
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	3.4216	4.6156
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	3.5000	4.7213
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	3.1078	4.1924
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	3.1078	4.1924
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	3.1078	4.1924

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