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Instance Type	n4-standard-64	n2-standard-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 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 standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 64 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	64 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM	64 vCPUs 256 GB RAM
vCPUs	64	64
Memory	256 GiB	256 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Emerald Rapids	Intel Cascade Lake and Ice Lake
Coremark Score	1351294	1091008
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	yes
25%-50% Usage Sustained Discount		0.8678
50%-75% Usage Sustained Discount		0.733
75%-100% Usage Sustained Discount		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	NVMe	SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD)
Local SSD	no	yes
Max Local SSD		9000 GB
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	yes
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	yes
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.10x

Regional Prices

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On Demand

Geography	Region	n4-standard-64	n2-standard-64
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	2.9024	3.1078
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	3.1958	3.5001
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	3.1958	3.5985
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	3.1958	3.6050
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	3.1958	3.6050
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	3.1958	3.6672
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	3.2690	3.6672
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	3.3087	3.7326
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	3.3607	3.7326
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	3.3668	3.7329
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	3.3668	3.7329
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	2.9024	3.4186
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	3.4248	3.7481
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	3.4248	3.7605
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	3.4248	3.7759
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	3.4890	3.8338
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	3.4890	3.9868
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	3.5119	3.9910
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	3.5264	3.9910
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	3.5807	4.0040
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	3.6280	4.0040
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	3.7273	4.0041
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	3.0185	3.4187
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	3.7273	4.0090
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	3.7273	4.0712
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	3.7731	4.1788
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	3.8021	4.3484
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	3.9029	4.4096
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	4.0602	4.4441
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	4.1504	4.9331
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	4.6087	4.9724
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	4.6438	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	3.0185	3.4187
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	3.0475	3.4213
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	3.0475	3.4213
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	3.0476	3.4213
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	3.1636	3.4216
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	3.1926	3.5000
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	2.9024	3.1078
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	n/a	3.1078
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	2.9024	3.1078
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	2.9024	n/a

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