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 0.0434 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
7 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
5,820
(All-cores)
1,110
(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
2026-10-28T08:13:57.622026

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1384 USD/h 0.2834 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1384 USD/h 0.2834 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1384 USD/h 0.2834 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1524 USD/h 0.3117 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.18 USD/h 0.3117 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0639 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1362 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1859 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1867 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1238 USD/h 0.3192 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1291 USD/h 0.3192 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0734 USD/h 0.3281 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.089 USD/h 0.3404 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1145 USD/h 0.3404 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1295 USD/h 0.3404 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1483 USD/h 0.3404 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1065 USD/h 0.3429 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0878 USD/h 0.3496 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1449 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1765 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1867 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1302 USD/h 0.3651 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1769 USD/h 0.3651 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1471 USD/h 0.3712 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0434 USD/h 0.3811 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0587 USD/h 0.3965 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0717 USD/h 0.4021 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1875 USD/h 0.4021 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1424 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
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
7 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
7 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

      Compute-optimized cloud server with eight dedicated virtual cores, light memory capacity, and balanced multi-core throughput for CPU-heavy tasks.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n1-highcpu-8 is a compute-optimized instance built on x86_64 Intel Xeon processors running at 2.3 GHz. Configured with 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores and 7.0 GB of RAM, it offers a high CPU-to-memory ratio of 0.9 GB per thread. The processor features 45 MB of L3 cache with hardware support for AVX, AES, FMA, and BMI2 instruction sets. Benchmark evaluations show middle-tier performance in multi-core metrics, including a PassMark CPU score of 6786.78 and large block uncached memory read bandwidth of 47.28 GB/sec. Conversely, single-core processing scores and memory capacity remain modest. Lacking local SSD storage and GPU acceleration, the n1-highcpu-8 delivers a dense vCPU profile suited for compute-focused workloads with minimal RAM footprint requirements, such as lightweight CI/CD builds, parallel batch processing, static web serving, and small-scale text generation.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.34Score
      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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.27 50.00% 50.00% -48.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,292,626 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.28 20.00% 20.00% -22.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,273 2,416 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 51,279 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.46 10.00% 10.00% -7.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,633 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 914

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,557

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6,787
      Compression
      		 88,406
      Encryption
      		 2,708
      Extended Instructions
      		 4,846
      Floating Point Maths
      		 12,066
      Integer Maths
      		 19,607
      Physics
      		 813
      Prime Numbers
      		 40
      Single Threaded
      		 1,633
      String Sorting
      		 10,417

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,273
      Database Operations
      		 2,431
      Memory Latency
      		 54
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19,286
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,155
      Memory Write
      		 8,895

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 195.75 186.65 0.95×
      bitops
      		 85,385 390,939 4.58×
      branch
      		 121,628 733,443 6.03×
      funccall
      		 429.51 1,765 4.11×
      funcret
      		 8,960 51,137 5.71×
      hash
      		 98,479 568,729 5.78×
      intmath
      		 17,756 104,629 5.89×
      nop
      		 151,100 521,566 3.45×
      prime
      		 253,317 1,128,029 4.45×
      rotate
      		 76,332 418,205 5.48×
      str
      		 565,410 2,310,547 4.09×
      wcs
      		 362,153 1,543,545 4.26×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 1,895 7,478 3.95×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 447.54 2,242 5.01×
      zlib
      		 43.74 229.08 5.24×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 15,415 78,900 5.12×
      clone
      		 283.47 858.31 3.03×
      context
      		 1,087 6,061 5.58×
      cpu-sched
      		 65.05 522.96 8.04×
      eventfd
      		 37,727 286,243 7.59×
      fault
      		 7,741 41,922 5.42×
      fork
      		 2,662 15,324 5.76×
      getrandom
      		 36,718 171,771 4.68×
      hrtimers
      		 154,596 699,780 4.53×
      mprotect
      		 651,863 786,089 1.21×
      mtx
      		 8,475,876 183,846,824 21.69×
      munmap
      		 1,756 10,452 5.95×
      null
      		 105,777 587,113 5.55×
      pipe
      		 607,247 1,809,073 2.98×
      priv-instr
      		 283,339 1,501,986 5.30×
      resched
      		 915,749 369,311 0.40×
      switch
      		 82,390 899,824 10.92×
      timermix
      		 138,616 710,472 5.13×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,401 13,936 1.66×
      tsc
      		 785,869 4,375,281 5.57×
      usersyscall
      		 188,846 994,636 5.27×
      vdso
      		 65,492,249 370,224,976 5.65×
      vfork
      		 22,135 87,280 3.94×
      x86syscall
      		 1,184,567 6,603,721 5.57×
      yield
      		 2,674,798 2,799,678 1.05×
      zero
      		 919,066 4,896,430 5.33×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 12,706 65,019 5.12×
      expmath
      		 2,108 12,896 6.12×
      fma
      		 508,362 3,291,682 6.48×
      fp
      		 91.2 480.47 5.27×
      fractal
      		 3.8 22.8 6.00×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,086 13,754 6.59×
      logmath
      		 3,569 21,052 5.90×
      matrix
      		 2,592 16,855 6.50×
      matrix-3d
      		 479.26 1,685 3.52×
      monte-carlo
      		 63.25 340.09 5.38×
      mpfr
      		 947.16 4,066 4.29×
      powmath
      		 1,252 7,617 6.08×
      trig
      		 1,356 7,117 5.25×
      veccmp
      		 12,306 51,381 4.18×
      vecfp
      		 1,076 5,718 5.31×
      vecmath
      		 1,757 10,848 6.17×
      vecshuf
      		 445.09 1,909 4.29×
      vecwide
      		 20,984 94,866 4.52×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.6 25.6 4.57×
      bsearch
      		 190.81 863.03 4.52×
      bubblesort
      		 0.6 1.6 2.67×
      fibsearch
      		 192.66 878.21 4.56×
      heapsort
      		 6.8 32.2 4.74×
      hsearch
      		 3,736 18,934 5.07×
      insertionsort
      		 6.4 25.6 4.00×
      malloc
      		 1,393,062 11,894,528 8.54×
      mcontend
      		 134.68 1,487 11.04×
      mergesort
      		 18.2 97.4 5.35×
      qsort
      		 11.6 53 4.57×
      skiplist
      		 3,852 21,677 5.63×
      tree
      		 0.8 4.8 6.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 247,560 372,194 1.50×
      cachehammer
      		 488,552 3,253,048 6.66×
      cacheline
      		 25.55 227.86 8.92×
      l1cache
      		 179.41 772.71 4.31×
      memcpy
      		 274.89 1,179 4.29×
      memrate
      		 1.15 4.51 3.92×
      memthrash
      		 87.83 256.73 2.92×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,502,773 72,534,170 6.91×
      spinmem
      		 80.79 122.38 1.51×
      stream
      		 20.48 800.95 39.11×
      vm
      		 16,846 264,706 15.71×

      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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