n1-highcpu-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n1-highcpu-2 is a 2 vCPUs, 1.8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0108 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,409
(All-cores)
1,086
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
4002
Name
n1-highcpu-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 1.8 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21.67
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T21:43:11.771847

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0346 USD/h 0.0708 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0346 USD/h 0.0708 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0346 USD/h 0.0708 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0381 USD/h 0.0779 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.045 USD/h 0.0779 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.016 USD/h 0.078 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.034 USD/h 0.078 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0465 USD/h 0.078 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0467 USD/h 0.078 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.031 USD/h 0.0798 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0323 USD/h 0.0798 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0184 USD/h 0.082 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0222 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0286 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0324 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0371 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0266 USD/h 0.0857 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0219 USD/h 0.0874 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0362 USD/h 0.091 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0441 USD/h 0.091 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0467 USD/h 0.091 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0325 USD/h 0.0913 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0442 USD/h 0.0913 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0368 USD/h 0.0928 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0108 USD/h 0.0953 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0147 USD/h 0.0991 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0179 USD/h 0.1005 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0469 USD/h 0.1005 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0356 USD/h 0.1125 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.3 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
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
45 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
45 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, pti, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, arat, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
2 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 x86 instance with dedicated dual vCPUs and minimal RAM for basic compute tasks and lightweight web processing.

      Compute Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform n1-highcpu-2 is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance offering 2 vCPUs powered by a 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon processor with 1 physical core and Hyper-Threading. The system is equipped with 2.0 GB of system memory, providing 0.9 GB per vCPU, and 45 MB of L3 cache. It features dedicated CPU resources but does not include bundled local storage or GPUs. Benchmark evaluation shows a stress-ng multi-core result of 1408.88 and single-core score of 1086.39, while uncached memory read bandwidth reaches 13.22 GB/sec. Practical application testing yields 1.35 million Redis SET operations per second and 1.51 GB/sec static web serving throughput. Small 135M parameter LLM inference achieves 38.74 generation tokens per second. Due to its limited RAM allocation and lower memory bandwidth, the instance trades off high-concurrency memory capacity for predictable dedicated processing. It is best fitted for lightweight web serving, low-overhead microservices, and small-scale batch compute processing.

      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) 124,955 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.063 50.00% 50.00% -75.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 818,158 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.068 20.00% 20.00% -42.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 730 2,416 0.3 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,683 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.2 10.00% 10.00% -15.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,535 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1,639
      Compression
      		 21,615
      Encryption
      		 653
      Extended Instructions
      		 1,159
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2,957
      Integer Maths
      		 4,790
      Physics
      		 146
      Prime Numbers
      		 6
      Single Threaded
      		 1,535
      String Sorting
      		 2,328

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 730
      Database Operations
      		 451
      Memory Latency
      		 94
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18,549
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 5,857
      Memory Write
      		 6,270

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 598.09 599.24 1.00×
      bitops
      		 84,626 96,561 1.14×
      branch
      		 120,766 182,186 1.51×
      funccall
      		 424.45 440.91 1.04×
      funcret
      		 8,907 12,712 1.43×
      hash
      		 98,726 142,482 1.44×
      intmath
      		 17,601 26,236 1.49×
      nop
      		 149,145 129,665 0.87×
      prime
      		 249,471 280,348 1.12×
      rotate
      		 75,846 102,675 1.35×
      str
      		 560,069 573,773 1.02×
      wcs
      		 367,124 378,191 1.03×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 1,876 1,860 0.99×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 459.4 569.14 1.24×
      zlib
      		 41.28 77.56 1.88×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 15,382 21,492 1.40×
      clone
      		 231.31 238.79 1.03×
      context
      		 1,081 1,513 1.40×
      cpu-sched
      		 66.16 108.17 1.63×
      eventfd
      		 26,285 75,578 2.88×
      fault
      		 7,862 11,014 1.40×
      fork
      		 2,739 4,731 1.73×
      getrandom
      		 36,335 42,674 1.17×
      hrtimers
      		 123,019 120,897 0.98×
      mprotect
      		 202,319 201,710 1.00×
      mtx
      		 10,274,824 49,327,708 4.80×
      munmap
      		 1,934 2,932 1.52×
      null
      		 104,541 145,201 1.39×
      pipe
      		 619,807 451,546 0.73×
      priv-instr
      		 281,625 376,781 1.34×
      resched
      		 125,599 94,853 0.76×
      switch
      		 69,243 220,134 3.18×
      timermix
      		 135,760 187,096 1.38×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 3,834 4,290 1.12×
      tsc
      		 783,213 1,085,194 1.39×
      usersyscall
      		 186,838 250,062 1.34×
      vdso
      		 65,103,700 91,290,558 1.40×
      vfork
      		 19,187 32,556 1.70×
      x86syscall
      		 1,171,830 1,619,382 1.38×
      yield
      		 695,243 618,989 0.89×
      zero
      		 910,226 1,213,994 1.33×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 12,623 16,498 1.31×
      expmath
      		 2,110 3,200 1.52×
      fma
      		 506,573 815,157 1.61×
      fp
      		 100.8 121.7 1.21×
      fractal
      		 3.8 5.8 1.53×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,203 3,403 1.54×
      logmath
      		 3,560 5,218 1.47×
      matrix
      		 2,564 4,139 1.61×
      matrix-3d
      		 495.96 498.62 1.01×
      monte-carlo
      		 63.22 85.08 1.35×
      mpfr
      		 927.97 1,016 1.09×
      powmath
      		 1,247 1,894 1.52×
      trig
      		 1,333 1,770 1.33×
      veccmp
      		 12,175 12,777 1.05×
      vecfp
      		 1,070 1,417 1.32×
      vecmath
      		 1,747 2,683 1.54×
      vecshuf
      		 439.89 470.74 1.07×
      vecwide
      		 20,754 23,563 1.14×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.6 6.4 1.14×
      bsearch
      		 185.84 214.9 1.16×
      bubblesort
      		 0.6 0.4 0.67×
      fibsearch
      		 191.14 213 1.11×
      heapsort
      		 6.8 8.2 1.21×
      hsearch
      		 3,827 4,765 1.25×
      insertionsort
      		 6.4 6.4 1.00×
      malloc
      		 1,480,154 2,587,669 1.75×
      mcontend
      		 465.2 485.25 1.04×
      mergesort
      		 18.2 24.4 1.34×
      qsort
      		 11.6 13.4 1.16×
      skiplist
      		 3,820 5,403 1.41×
      tree
      		 1 1.2 1.20×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 253,663 248,780 0.98×
      cachehammer
      		 482,674 822,417 1.70×
      cacheline
      		 15.4 30.92 2.01×
      l1cache
      		 178.12 192.41 1.08×
      memcpy
      		 271.87 293.19 1.08×
      memrate
      		 1.15 1.51 1.31×
      memthrash
      		 42.16 67.32 1.60×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,584,666 19,623,647 1.85×
      spinmem
      		 63.2 0.4 0.01×
      stream
      		 20.83 50.04 2.40×
      vm
      		 16,199 43,360 2.68×

      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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