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Instance Type	n4-standard-80	n2-standard-80
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 80 – 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 80 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	80 vCPUs, 320 GB RAM	80 vCPUs 320 GB RAM
vCPUs	80	80
Memory	320 GiB	320 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	Intel Emerald Rapids	Intel Cascade Lake and Ice Lake
Coremark Score	1626413	1365998
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-80	n2-standard-80
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	3.6280	3.8847
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	3.9948	4.3751
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	3.9948	4.4981
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	3.9948	4.5063
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	3.9948	4.5063
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	3.9948	4.5840
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	4.0862	4.5840
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	4.1359	4.6658
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	4.2009	4.6658
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	4.2085	4.6661
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	4.2085	4.6661
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	3.6280	4.2732
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	4.2810	4.6851
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	4.2810	4.7006
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	4.2810	4.7199
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	4.3612	4.7922
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	4.3612	4.9835
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	4.3899	4.9887
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	4.4080	4.9887
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	4.4759	5.0050
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	4.5350	5.0050
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	4.6591	5.0051
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	3.7731	4.2734
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	4.6591	5.0113
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	4.6591	5.0890
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	4.7164	5.2235
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	4.7527	5.4354
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	4.8786	5.5120
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	5.0752	5.5551
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	5.1880	6.1664
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	5.7609	6.2156
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	5.8048	n/a
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	3.7731	4.2734
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	3.8094	4.2766
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	3.8094	4.2766
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	3.8094	4.2766
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	3.9545	4.2770
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	3.9908	4.3750
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	3.6280	3.8847
North America	Ohio (us-east5)	n/a	3.8847
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	3.6280	3.8847
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	3.6280	n/a

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