e2-highmem-4 by Google Cloud Platform

e2-highmem-4 is a Efficient Instance, 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0268 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,892
(All-cores)
1,106
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
336004
Name
e2-highmem-4
Description
Efficient Instance, 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM
Family
e2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T09:08:14.056586

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0959 USD/h 0.1808 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1085 USD/h 0.1808 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1085 USD/h 0.1808 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1085 USD/h 0.1808 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0508 USD/h 0.1898 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.071 USD/h 0.1971 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0703 USD/h 0.1989 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.102 USD/h 0.1989 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.107 USD/h 0.1989 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0434 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0546 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0645 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1194 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0268 USD/h 0.2036 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1216 USD/h 0.2036 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0974 USD/h 0.2093 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.1037 USD/h 0.2097 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.1127 USD/h 0.2097 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0677 USD/h 0.2133 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0988 USD/h 0.2134 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1121 USD/h 0.2171 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1303 USD/h 0.2171 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0655 USD/h 0.2172 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.069 USD/h 0.2172 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1187 USD/h 0.218 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1014 USD/h 0.2188 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1035 USD/h 0.2197 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1338 USD/h 0.223 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0729 USD/h 0.2318 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1155 USD/h 0.2318 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1391 USD/h 0.2318 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0425 USD/h 0.2329 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0883 USD/h 0.2329 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1398 USD/h 0.2329 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0545 USD/h 0.2332 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1112 USD/h 0.2368 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0583 USD/h 0.2431 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0725 USD/h 0.253 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1364 USD/h 0.2565 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.1307 USD/h 0.2585 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0569 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1735 USD/h 0.2893 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
55 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
55 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
2.6
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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

      A high-memory server configuration pairing 32 GB RAM with 4 vCPUs for memory-bound applications requiring baseline compute capability.

      Memory Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform e2-highmem-4 is a memory-optimized cloud instance providing 32.0 GB of RAM alongside 4 vCPUs across 2 physical Intel Xeon cores running at 2.2 GHz. Built on x86_64 architecture with dedicated CPU allocation, it delivers an 8.0 GB per vCPU ratio aimed at memory-centric workloads. The instance features 55 MB of L3 cache and AVX instruction support, but includes no bundled GPUs or local SSD storage. Benchmark results show lower-tier CPU compute scores, such as a PassMark CPU score of 3564.93 and Geekbench multi-core score of 1973.0, paired with average memory benchmark performance. This hardware profile delivers qualitative cost advantages for applications constrained primarily by memory rather than raw processing power. Suitable workload fits include in-memory caching, light database operations, small model LLM text generation, and general memory-heavy background tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.2Score
      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) 246,357 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.13 50.00% 50.00% -64.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,637,146 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.13 20.00% 20.00% -34.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,970 2,416 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 26,245 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.24 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,684 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 897

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,973

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3,565
      Compression
      		 44,902
      Encryption
      		 1,392
      Extended Instructions
      		 2,458
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6,194
      Integer Maths
      		 10,054
      Physics
      		 427
      Prime Numbers
      		 19
      Single Threaded
      		 1,684
      String Sorting
      		 5,325

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,970
      Database Operations
      		 1,238
      Memory Latency
      		 55
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19,971
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,432
      Memory Write
      		 8,910

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 282.48 275.64 0.98×
      bitops
      		 139,289 319,175 2.29×
      branch
      		 162,490 591,099 3.64×
      funccall
      		 535.05 1,390 2.60×
      funcret
      		 16,937 43,047 2.54×
      hash
      		 132,215 408,641 3.09×
      intmath
      		 57,989 154,468 2.66×
      nop
      		 277,946 565,466 2.03×
      prime
      		 388,070 957,473 2.47×
      rotate
      		 76,261 153,416 2.01×
      str
      		 841,846 1,998,464 2.37×
      wcs
      		 567,658 1,290,169 2.27×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,181 6,223 1.96×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 725.21 2,051 2.83×
      zlib
      		 53.86 185.63 3.45×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 19,687 58,218 2.96×
      clone
      		 150.78 389.86 2.59×
      context
      		 3,499 11,527 3.29×
      cpu-sched
      		 58.36 260.63 4.47×
      eventfd
      		 30,876 214,578 6.95×
      fault
      		 7,419 22,953 3.09×
      fork
      		 2,455 11,395 4.64×
      getrandom
      		 43,369 110,313 2.54×
      hrtimers
      		 144,198 348,392 2.42×
      mprotect
      		 551,673 687,472 1.25×
      mtx
      		 31,091,341 250,144,609 8.05×
      munmap
      		 1,804 7,135 3.96×
      null
      		 450,047 1,428,802 3.17×
      pipe
      		 592,771 1,397,416 2.36×
      priv-instr
      		 376,343 1,167,745 3.10×
      resched
      		 539,615 301,428 0.56×
      switch
      		 65,656 550,212 8.38×
      timermix
      		 116,823 430,712 3.69×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,525 10,429 1.22×
      tsc
      		 661,572 2,527,821 3.82×
      usersyscall
      		 302,481 945,504 3.13×
      vdso
      		 77,702,216 255,227,073 3.28×
      vfork
      		 17,225 52,138 3.03×
      x86syscall
      		 5,686,635 17,791,371 3.13×
      yield
      		 2,064,875 1,895,620 0.92×
      zero
      		 2,809,577 7,991,545 2.84×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,628 29,409 2.16×
      expmath
      		 2,358 7,668 3.25×
      fma
      		 762,390 2,402,114 3.15×
      fp
      		 225.15 664.89 2.95×
      fractal
      		 6.6 22 3.33×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,245 9,768 3.01×
      logmath
      		 3,804 10,938 2.88×
      matrix
      		 2,667 8,167 3.06×
      matrix-3d
      		 644.76 1,509 2.34×
      monte-carlo
      		 204.63 643.98 3.15×
      mpfr
      		 1,369 3,372 2.46×
      powmath
      		 1,205 3,877 3.22×
      trig
      		 1,477 4,535 3.07×
      veccmp
      		 15,771 41,561 2.64×
      vecfp
      		 1,458 4,107 2.82×
      vecmath
      		 3,357 10,819 3.22×
      vecshuf
      		 525.22 1,226 2.33×
      vecwide
      		 23,286 59,625 2.56×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8.6 18.2 2.12×
      bsearch
      		 262.19 651.42 2.48×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 2.4 3.00×
      fibsearch
      		 315.76 708.62 2.24×
      heapsort
      		 9 23 2.56×
      hsearch
      		 7,504 17,486 2.33×
      insertionsort
      		 11.2 22.4 2.00×
      malloc
      		 2,011,151 7,454,838 3.71×
      mcontend
      		 154.25 608.26 3.94×
      mergesort
      		 27.2 80.2 2.95×
      qsort
      		 18.4 51.6 2.80×
      skiplist
      		 6,073 18,603 3.06×
      tree
      		 1 3 3.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 490,155 645,613 1.32×
      cachehammer
      		 226,186 844,391 3.73×
      cacheline
      		 34.39 132.32 3.85×
      l1cache
      		 130.72 318.98 2.44×
      memcpy
      		 352.9 682.92 1.94×
      memrate
      		 2.15 4.64 2.16×
      memthrash
      		 49.88 178.14 3.57×
      ptr-chase
      		 8,724,423 31,588,664 3.62×
      spinmem
      		 240.78 177.19 0.74×
      stream
      		 150.08 1,605 10.69×
      vm
      		 59,886 233,106 3.89×

      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

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