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Google Cloud N4D Delivers Great VM Performance & Value Powered By AMD EPYC Turin

Written by Michael Larabel in Cloud on 10 November 2025 at 12:00 PM EST. Page 2 of 5. 1 Comment.

With the big jump from EPYC Milan to Turin CPUs for the Google N-Series VMs, N4D immediately showed off very significant generational gains from N2D to N4D at the same VM (vCPU) size. With AVX-512, DDR5 memory, and more, the leap to N2D to N4D is massive.

And with competitive pricing on their vCPU and RAM basis, the N4D series deliveres phenomenal value too over the aging N2D series with Milan CPUs.

Across many different workloads, the Google N4D instance was delivering terrific uplift over the prior N2D instance thanks to jumping to the latest-generation AMD EPYC server processors.