n1-highmem-8 by Google Cloud Platform

n1-highmem-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 52 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 52 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0985 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
52 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
5,856
(All-cores)
1,114
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
5008
Name
n1-highmem-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 52 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-18T23:48:10.783049

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.2809 USD/h 0.4732 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.2809 USD/h 0.4732 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.2809 USD/h 0.4732 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.2616 USD/h 0.5205 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.3123 USD/h 0.5206 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.2187 USD/h 0.5209 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.3104 USD/h 0.5209 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.3125 USD/h 0.5209 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1136 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1981 USD/h 0.5329 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.21 USD/h 0.5329 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1118 USD/h 0.5479 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1357 USD/h 0.5683 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1742 USD/h 0.5683 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.208 USD/h 0.5684 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.2381 USD/h 0.5684 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1888 USD/h 0.5726 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.141 USD/h 0.5837 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2434 USD/h 0.6067 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.2965 USD/h 0.6067 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.3431 USD/h 0.6067 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.231 USD/h 0.6097 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.2996 USD/h 0.6097 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2362 USD/h 0.6199 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0985 USD/h 0.6363 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0994 USD/h 0.6621 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1272 USD/h 0.6714 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.3486 USD/h 0.6714 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.2286 USD/h 0.7511 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
5.3
Scalability
132.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
52 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
52 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

      An x86_64 virtual machine offering a high memory-to-CPU ratio for memory-bound workloads requiring moderate processing power.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n1-highmem-8 is an x86_64 virtual machine configured with 8 dedicated vCPUs and 52 GB of RAM, providing a memory-to-core ratio of 6.5 GB. Powered by a 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon processor with 4 physical cores and hyper-threading, this instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks indicate modest compute capabilities, with single-core and multi-core stress-ng scores in the bottom 25%, and single-threaded compression speeds in the bottom 10%. However, the instance maintains average performance in large-block memory bandwidth and Passmark CPU encryption tests. Given its high memory allocation relative to its processing power, the n1-highmem-8 is qualitatively cost-effective for memory-intensive, low-compute workloads. It is best suited for caching systems, moderate database operations, and general-purpose applications requiring a larger memory footprint.

      Economics

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.336Score
      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) 450,603 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.235 50.00% 50.00% -51.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,081,114 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.263 20.00% 20.00% -23.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,270 2,418 0.939 10.00% 10.00% -0.63%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 55,761 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.515 10.00% 10.00% -6.42%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,809 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.765 10.00% 10.00% -2.64%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 894

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,470

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 7280
      Compression
      		 95318
      Encryption
      		 2955
      Extended Instructions
      		 4781
      Floating Point Maths
      		 13135
      Integer Maths
      		 20917
      Physics
      		 867
      Prime Numbers
      		 46
      Single Threaded
      		 1809
      String Sorting
      		 11313

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2270
      Database Operations
      		 2552
      Memory Latency
      		 57
      Memory Read Cached
      		 20536
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10638
      Memory Write
      		 9922

      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

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

      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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