e2-highmem-2 by Google Cloud Platform

e2-highmem-2 is a Efficient Instance, 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0134 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,452
(All-cores)
1,102
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
336002
Name
e2-highmem-2
Description
Efficient Instance, 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
e2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T01:49:54.622568

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.048 USD/h 0.0904 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0542 USD/h 0.0904 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0542 USD/h 0.0904 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0542 USD/h 0.0904 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0254 USD/h 0.0949 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0355 USD/h 0.0985 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0352 USD/h 0.0994 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.051 USD/h 0.0994 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0535 USD/h 0.0994 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0217 USD/h 0.0995 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0273 USD/h 0.0995 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0323 USD/h 0.0995 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0597 USD/h 0.0995 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0134 USD/h 0.1018 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0608 USD/h 0.1018 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0487 USD/h 0.1047 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0518 USD/h 0.1049 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0564 USD/h 0.1049 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0338 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0494 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0327 USD/h 0.1086 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0345 USD/h 0.1086 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.056 USD/h 0.1086 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0651 USD/h 0.1086 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0594 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0507 USD/h 0.1094 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0518 USD/h 0.1098 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0669 USD/h 0.1115 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0365 USD/h 0.1159 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0578 USD/h 0.1159 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0695 USD/h 0.1159 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0212 USD/h 0.1165 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0441 USD/h 0.1165 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0699 USD/h 0.1165 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0273 USD/h 0.1166 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0556 USD/h 0.1184 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0291 USD/h 0.1215 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0362 USD/h 0.1265 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0682 USD/h 0.1283 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0654 USD/h 0.1293 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0285 USD/h 0.1435 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0868 USD/h 0.1446 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, arat, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      An entry-level memory-optimized virtual machine offering sixteen gigabytes of RAM paired with two virtual cores for lightweight memory-centric background applications.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform e2-highmem-2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine featuring an Intel Xeon x86_64 CPU running at 2.2 GHz with 2 vCPUs across 1 physical core and 16.0 GB of memory. Delivering 8.0 GB of RAM per virtual core and 16 MB of L3 cache, this instance caters to memory-centric applications that demand low compute overhead. Benchmark evaluations reflect modest processing capacity, recording a Geekbench multi-core score of 1028.0, an uncached memory read bandwidth of 12.0 GB/sec, and Redis SET throughput of 1.33 million operations per second. The instance includes no local storage or GPU hardware. The high ratio of memory relative to vCPU allocation delivers qualitative resource efficiency for light memory-bound services without paying for unneeded CPU cores. Recommended workloads encompass small in-memory key-value stores, lightweight databases, staging environments, and low-traffic web applications.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.11Score
      Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 123,494 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.063 50.00% 50.00% -75.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 787,673 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.066 20.00% 20.00% -42.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,468 2,416 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 12,464 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.11 10.00% 10.00% -20.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,265 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 841

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,028

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3,028
      Compression
      		 31,790
      Encryption
      		 2,115
      Extended Instructions
      		 1,720
      Floating Point Maths
      		 4,538
      Integer Maths
      		 8,152
      Physics
      		 306
      Prime Numbers
      		 16
      Single Threaded
      		 2,265
      String Sorting
      		 4,354

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,468
      Database Operations
      		 605
      Memory Latency
      		 101
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,211
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 13,096
      Memory Write
      		 13,644

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 519.97 520.53 1.00×
      bitops
      		 138,526 158,553 1.14×
      branch
      		 161,375 293,828 1.82×
      funccall
      		 533.26 687.87 1.29×
      funcret
      		 16,596 21,511 1.30×
      hash
      		 132,463 202,736 1.53×
      intmath
      		 57,454 76,423 1.33×
      nop
      		 279,395 281,605 1.01×
      prime
      		 386,930 474,502 1.23×
      rotate
      		 76,144 76,562 1.01×
      str
      		 829,170 1,031,608 1.24×
      wcs
      		 563,401 651,818 1.16×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,103 3,070 0.99×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 722.46 1,025 1.42×
      zlib
      		 46.36 90.25 1.95×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 19,565 31,593 1.61×
      clone
      		 190.17 211.03 1.11×
      context
      		 3,490 5,726 1.64×
      cpu-sched
      		 57.54 122.61 2.13×
      eventfd
      		 30,814 107,574 3.49×
      fault
      		 7,176 12,182 1.70×
      fork
      		 3,264 6,356 1.95×
      getrandom
      		 43,222 55,032 1.27×
      hrtimers
      		 154,123 150,646 0.98×
      mprotect
      		 357,719 362,964 1.01×
      mtx
      		 18,976,049 50,599,330 2.67×
      munmap
      		 2,162 3,969 1.84×
      null
      		 447,772 710,034 1.59×
      pipe
      		 1,586,222 713,289 0.45×
      priv-instr
      		 374,747 600,919 1.60×
      resched
      		 168,534 124,198 0.74×
      switch
      		 128,952 266,515 2.07×
      timermix
      		 145,506 230,549 1.58×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 5,766 6,242 1.08×
      tsc
      		 664,201 1,259,807 1.90×
      usersyscall
      		 302,243 483,990 1.60×
      vdso
      		 77,915,825 128,036,428 1.64×
      vfork
      		 19,869 34,275 1.73×
      x86syscall
      		 5,685,812 8,887,400 1.56×
      yield
      		 935,896 878,149 0.94×
      zero
      		 2,818,550 3,959,736 1.40×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,402 14,618 1.09×
      expmath
      		 2,423 3,901 1.61×
      fma
      		 771,436 1,201,367 1.56×
      fp
      		 225.59 330.76 1.47×
      fractal
      		 6.8 11 1.62×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,227 4,899 1.52×
      logmath
      		 3,814 5,455 1.43×
      matrix
      		 2,664 4,055 1.52×
      matrix-3d
      		 499.1 294.33 0.59×
      monte-carlo
      		 204.59 321.87 1.57×
      mpfr
      		 1,368 1,690 1.24×
      powmath
      		 1,189 1,929 1.62×
      trig
      		 1,470 2,260 1.54×
      veccmp
      		 15,826 20,770 1.31×
      vecfp
      		 1,460 2,132 1.46×
      vecmath
      		 3,376 5,418 1.60×
      vecshuf
      		 526.91 612.49 1.16×
      vecwide
      		 23,396 29,752 1.27×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8.4 8.8 1.05×
      bsearch
      		 260.84 329.43 1.26×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 1.2 1.50×
      fibsearch
      		 312.62 345.46 1.11×
      heapsort
      		 9 11.6 1.29×
      hsearch
      		 7,512 8,831 1.18×
      insertionsort
      		 11.2 11.2 1.00×
      malloc
      		 1,829,742 3,427,357 1.87×
      mcontend
      		 219.9 211.03 0.96×
      mergesort
      		 27.4 39.6 1.45×
      qsort
      		 18.2 25.8 1.42×
      skiplist
      		 6,018 9,233 1.53×
      tree
      		 1.2 1.2 1.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 592,809 555,213 0.94×
      cachehammer
      		 190,235 410,774 2.16×
      cacheline
      		 22.67 44.8 1.98×
      l1cache
      		 145.59 158.08 1.09×
      memcpy
      		 142.18 163.25 1.15×
      memrate
      		 1.17 1.94 1.66×
      memthrash
      		 60.79 78.7 1.29×
      ptr-chase
      		 6,162,968 13,202,548 2.14×
      spinmem
      		 186.58 20.2 0.11×
      stream
      		 142.79 455.97 3.19×
      vm
      		 58,989 112,919 1.91×

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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