Compare GCP Instances

Instance Type	t2d-standard-48	n4-standard-64
Details	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 48 – 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 64 – Number of CPUs
Instance Family	General-purpose	General-purpose
Description	48 vCPUs, 192 GB RAM	64 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM
vCPUs	48	64
Memory	192 GiB	256 GiB
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Processor	AMD EPYC Milan	Intel Emerald Rapids
Coremark Score	1395082	1351294
Shared CPU	no	no
GPU	no	no
Sustained Discounts (SUDs)	no	no
Extended Memory		yes
Sole Tenancy	no	yes
Nested Virtualization	no	yes
Custom Shapes	no	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)	NVMe
Local SSD	no	no
Extreme Persistent Disks	no	no
Hyperdisk Extreme	no	no
Hyperdisk Throughput	yes	yes
Network Interfaces	gVNIC, VirtIO-Net	gVNIC
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.40x

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Geography	Region	t2d-standard-48	n4-standard-64
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-1)	2.0278	2.9024
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-10)	2.2838	3.1958
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-11)	2.2838	3.1958
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-12)	2.3480	3.1958
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-13)	2.3523	3.1958
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-14)	2.3523	3.1958
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-15)	2.3928	3.2690
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-16)	2.3928	3.3087
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-17)	2.4356	3.3607
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-18)	2.4356	3.3668
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-19)	2.4356	3.3668
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-2)	2.0278	2.9024
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-20)	2.4536	3.4248
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-21)	2.4638	3.4248
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-22)	2.5016	3.4248
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-23)	2.6015	3.4890
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-24)	2.6042	3.4890
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-25)	2.6125	3.5119
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-26)	2.6125	3.5264
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-27)	2.6125	3.5807
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-28)	2.6159	3.6280
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-29)	2.6564	3.7273
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-3)	2.2306	3.0185
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-30)	2.7268	3.7273
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-31)	2.8372	3.7273
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-32)	2.8774	3.7731
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-33)	2.8774	3.8021
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-34)	2.8998	3.9029
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-35)	3.2189	4.0602
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-36)	3.2445	4.1504
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-37)	n/a	4.6087
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-38)	n/a	4.6438
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-4)	2.2307	3.0185
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-5)	2.2307	3.0475
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-6)	2.2325	3.0475
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-7)	2.2325	3.0476
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-8)	2.2325	3.1636
Hidden	Hidden (hidden-9)	2.2326	3.1926
APAC	India (asia-south1)	1.3384	n/a
North America	Iowa (us-central1)	2.0278	2.9024
North America	South Carolina (us-east1)	2.0278	2.9024
North America	Virginia (us-east4)	n/a	2.9024

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