Compare GCP Instances
| n4d-standard-16 | n4a-highmem-16 |
| 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 16 – 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 highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | General-purpose |
| 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM | 16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM |
| 16 | 16 |
| 64 GiB | 128 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| AMD EPYC Turin | Google Axion |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | yes |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 32 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| gVNIC | gVNIC |
| 1.00x | 1.21x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | n4d-standard-16 | n4a-highmem-16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.6776 | 0.8086 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.8357 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.6776 | 0.8490 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.6776 | 0.8899 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.7118 | 0.9216 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.7458 | 0.9539 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.7633 | 0.9971 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.7722 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.7998 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.8146 | n/a |
| APAC | India (asia-south1) | 0.5153 | n/a |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.6776 | 0.8086 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.6776 | 0.8086 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.8086 |
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