The g4-standard-12 is a gcp compute instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for compute workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 12 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| g4-standard-6 | 6 | 22 |
| g4-standard-12 | 12 | 45 |
| g4-standard-24 | 24 | 90 |
| g4-standard-48 | 48 | 180 |
| g4-standard-96 | 96 | 360 |
| g4-standard-192 | 192 | 720 |
| g4-standard-384 | 384 | 1440 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| c2d-standard-8 | 8 | 32 |
| g2-standard-12 | 12 | 48 |
| n1-highmem-8 | 8 | 52 |
| c3d-highcpu-16 | 16 | 32 |
| c2d-highcpu-16 | 16 | 32 |

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