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n1-highcpu-8 by Google Cloud Platform

n1-highcpu-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 7.2 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 7 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.057 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
7 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
5820
(All-cores)
1110
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
4008
Name
n1-highcpu-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 7.2 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
26
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-29T19:34:28.417993

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1 USD/h 0.2834 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1 USD/h 0.2834 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1 USD/h 0.2834 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.1174 USD/h 0.3117 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.13 USD/h 0.3117 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0974 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1199 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1707 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1813 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0817 USD/h 0.3192 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0906 USD/h 0.3192 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0642 USD/h 0.3281 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0745 USD/h 0.3404 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0819 USD/h 0.3404 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1195 USD/h 0.3404 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1377 USD/h 0.3404 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0815 USD/h 0.3429 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.07 USD/h 0.3496 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.121 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1281 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1416 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0952 USD/h 0.3651 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1284 USD/h 0.3651 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1173 USD/h 0.3712 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.057 USD/h 0.3811 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0853 USD/h 0.3965 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0808 USD/h 0.4021 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.13 USD/h 0.4021 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0942 USD/h 0.4499 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.3 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
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
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
5.2
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
7 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
7 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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 compute-optimized virtual machine featuring eight dedicated vCPUs and a lean memory profile for lightweight parallel processing workloads.

      Compute Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform n1-highcpu-8 is an x86_64 compute-optimized virtual machine featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs and 7.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.3 GHz. This configuration provides a low memory-to-core ratio of 0.9 GB per core, with no local storage or GPU accelerators included. Performance benchmarks place the instance mostly in the weak to poor categories for single-core and multi-core operations, though it achieves average marks in Passmark CPU testing, ray tracing, and large-block memory bandwidth. Given its low memory allocation and dedicated CPU resources, the n1-highcpu-8 is qualitatively cost-efficient for CPU-bound tasks with minimal memory requirements, such as basic software compilation and lightweight parallel processing, while remaining less suitable for memory-heavy databases or high-throughput web serving.

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.339Score
      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) 509,610 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.269 50.00% 50.00% -48.10%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,292,626 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.285 20.00% 20.00% -22.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,273 2,411 0.528 10.00% 10.00% -6.19%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 51,279 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.478 10.00% 10.00% -7.12%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,633 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.691 10.00% 10.00% -3.63%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 914

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,557

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6787
      Compression
      		 88406
      Encryption
      		 2708
      Extended Instructions
      		 4846
      Floating Point Maths
      		 12066
      Integer Maths
      		 19607
      Physics
      		 813
      Prime Numbers
      		 40
      Single Threaded
      		 1633
      String Sorting
      		 10417

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1273
      Database Operations
      		 2431
      Memory Latency
      		 54
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19286
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9155
      Memory Write
      		 8895

      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

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      n1-standard-1 14 GiB0
      n1-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      n1-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n1-highmem-2 213 GiB0
      n1-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n1-standard-4 415 GiB0
      n1-highmem-4 426 GiB0

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