The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the first cloud vendor to provide its customers with access to NVIDIA's professional Tesla T4 GPU, via a beta program with instances available for customers from Brazil, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Tokyo, and the United States.
Google previously announced the availability of NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs on the GCP during November 2018 as part of a limited private alpha program, a GPU specifically created and optimized to be used for machine learning (ML) inference tasks, as well as computer graphics and distributed training of models.
As described in Google's press release announcing the start of the beta program, "T4 GPU is well suited for many machine learning, visualization and other GPU accelerated workloads."
Moreover, the 12 nm Tesla T4 GPU which launched in September 2018 is a professional-grade graphics card bundling 16 GB of GPU memory, and offering the widest precision support (FP32, FP16, INT8, and INT4) on the market at the moment.
Our T4 GPU prices are as low as $0.29 per hour per GPU on Preemptible VM instances. On-demand instances start at $0.95 per hour per GPU, with up to a 30% discount with sustained use discounts. Committed use discounts are also available as well for the greatest savings for on-demand T4 GPU usage—talk with sales to learn more.
T4 GPU cards have been distributed by Google across eight different cloud regions (i.e., us-central1, us-west1, us-east1, asia-northeast1, asia-south1, asia-southeast1, europe-west4, and southamerica-east1) to provide its customers with very low latencies not dependent on the region they connect from.
The Tesla T4 comes with support for the NVIDIA Tensor Core and RTX real-time visualization technology, while also providing up to 260 TOPS of computing performance.
Google Cloud Platform's new NVIDIA Tesla T4 instances will better fit its customers' demanding graphics workloads such as offline rendering, real-time ray tracing, or any task that takes advantage of NVIDIA's RTX tech:
The T4’s Turing architecture fuses real-time ray tracing, AI, simulation, and rasterization to provide a novel, multi-pronged approach to rendering computer graphics. At the same time, dedicated ray tracing processors called RT Cores can render how rays of light travel in 3D environments.
A full list of all NVIDIA GPUs available on the Google Cloud Platform and their specs can be found on the NVIDIA and Google Cloud Platform page.
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