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g2-standard-8 by Google Cloud Platform

g2-standard-8 is a Graphics Optimized: 1 NVIDIA L4 GPU, 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.093 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
1 GPU
Spare SCore
6312
(All-cores)
1201
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1600008
Name
g2-standard-8
Description
Graphics Optimized: 1 NVIDIA L4 GPU, 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM
Family
g2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-06-23T08:24:58.771775

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.129 USD/h 0.2926 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1429 USD/h 0.2936 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1429 USD/h 0.2936 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1429 USD/h 0.2936 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1348 USD/h 0.3056 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1619 USD/h 0.3086 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1285 USD/h 0.3233 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1547 USD/h 0.3233 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1577 USD/h 0.3233 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1663 USD/h 0.3307 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1837 USD/h 0.3343 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1391 USD/h 0.3399 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1815 USD/h 0.346 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1987 USD/h 0.3622 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.093 USD/h 0.377 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1979 USD/h 0.377 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.202 USD/h 0.3846 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.2113 USD/h 0.4697 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
39 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
39 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, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512_vnni, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
5.3
Scalability
132.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
1
GPU Memory Min
22 GiB
GPU Memory Total
22 GiB
GPU Manufacturer
NVIDIA
GPU Family
Ada Lovelace
GPU Model
L4
GPUs
  • NVIDIA Ada Lovelace NVIDIA L4 (Memory amount: 23034, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 95.04.29.00.07, Clock rate: 2040)
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 GPU-accelerated virtual machine optimized for low-to-medium scale large language model inference and graphics rendering workloads without local storage.

    GPU AcceleratedGeneral Purpose

    Google Cloud Platform g2-standard-8 is a graphics-optimized virtual machine configured with an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor providing 8 vCPUs, 32.0 GB of system memory, and a single NVIDIA L4 GPU with 22 GB of VRAM. While CPU-bound benchmarks like Geekbench and stress-ng place this instance in the bottom 25% for both single-core and multi-core performance, its GPU-accelerated capabilities deliver top-tier results for large language model inference. Specifically, prompt processing and text generation for 135M and 7B models rank in the top 10% of tested systems. This server does not include local storage. It represents a cost-efficient option for GPU-centric workloads, such as machine learning inference and graphics rendering, where high-performance CPU compute is not the primary requirement.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,059

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,017

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		7245
    Compression
    		94348
    Encryption
    		2898
    Extended Instructions
    		5897
    Floating Point Maths
    		11296
    Integer Maths
    		21135
    Physics
    		891
    Prime Numbers
    		46
    Single Threaded
    		1695
    String Sorting
    		11158

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2346
    Database Operations
    		2657
    Memory Latency
    		52
    Memory Read Cached
    		20886
    Memory Read Uncached
    		11197
    Memory Write
    		10115

    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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    g2-standard-48 48192 GiB4
    g2-standard-96 96384 GiB8

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