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 0.076 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
2026-11-03T06:11:15.327581

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.2426 USD/h 0.4732 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.2426 USD/h 0.4732 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.2426 USD/h 0.4732 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.3123 USD/h 0.5205 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.2799 USD/h 0.5206 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.2388 USD/h 0.5209 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.3104 USD/h 0.5209 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.3118 USD/h 0.5209 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1014 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1965 USD/h 0.5329 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.2265 USD/h 0.5329 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1287 USD/h 0.5479 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1412 USD/h 0.5683 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.2103 USD/h 0.5683 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.2271 USD/h 0.5684 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.26 USD/h 0.5684 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1864 USD/h 0.5726 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1393 USD/h 0.5837 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2537 USD/h 0.6067 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.2797 USD/h 0.6067 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.2957 USD/h 0.6067 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2065 USD/h 0.6097 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.2805 USD/h 0.6097 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2333 USD/h 0.6199 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.076 USD/h 0.6363 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1078 USD/h 0.6621 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1138 USD/h 0.6714 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.2974 USD/h 0.6714 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.2497 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
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
52 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
52 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

      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

      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) 450,603 ops/sec 1,920,103 ops/sec 0.24 50.00% 50.00% -51.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,081,114 ops/sec 11,744,104 ops/sec 0.26 20.00% 20.00% -24.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,270 2,415 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 55,761 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.51 10.00% 10.00% -6.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,809 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 894

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,470

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 7,280
      Compression
      		 95,318
      Encryption
      		 2,955
      Extended Instructions
      		 4,781
      Floating Point Maths
      		 13,135
      Integer Maths
      		 20,917
      Physics
      		 867
      Prime Numbers
      		 46
      Single Threaded
      		 1,809
      String Sorting
      		 11,313

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,270
      Database Operations
      		 2,552
      Memory Latency
      		 57
      Memory Read Cached
      		 20,536
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,638
      Memory Write
      		 9,922

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 186.84 189 1.01×
      bitops
      		 84,624 384,697 4.55×
      branch
      		 120,724 725,727 6.01×
      funccall
      		 426.1 1,742 4.09×
      funcret
      		 8,963 50,749 5.66×
      hash
      		 98,943 565,932 5.72×
      intmath
      		 17,640 104,166 5.91×
      nop
      		 150,024 518,903 3.46×
      prime
      		 252,753 1,122,309 4.44×
      rotate
      		 76,019 421,545 5.55×
      str
      		 512,555 2,343,304 4.57×
      wcs
      		 378,424 1,514,877 4.00×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 1,893 7,413 3.92×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 441.76 2,215 5.01×
      zlib
      		 48.63 234.01 4.81×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 15,191 77,943 5.13×
      clone
      		 251.93 923.36 3.67×
      context
      		 1,078 6,019 5.59×
      cpu-sched
      		 65.41 501.29 7.66×
      eventfd
      		 36,645 289,665 7.90×
      fault
      		 7,675 41,662 5.43×
      fork
      		 2,318 15,466 6.67×
      getrandom
      		 36,419 170,430 4.68×
      hrtimers
      		 151,269 654,799 4.33×
      mprotect
      		 658,031 785,785 1.19×
      mtx
      		 8,222,522 176,663,730 21.49×
      munmap
      		 1,673 10,549 6.31×
      null
      		 105,122 580,817 5.53×
      pipe
      		 620,358 1,785,973 2.88×
      priv-instr
      		 281,465 1,492,388 5.30×
      resched
      		 914,762 360,155 0.39×
      switch
      		 81,414 871,313 10.70×
      timermix
      		 144,715 738,568 5.10×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,596 13,209 1.54×
      tsc
      		 784,498 4,354,092 5.55×
      usersyscall
      		 188,373 990,178 5.26×
      vdso
      		 65,222,405 366,861,057 5.62×
      vfork
      		 21,274 86,808 4.08×
      x86syscall
      		 1,178,625 6,535,861 5.55×
      yield
      		 2,720,458 2,734,898 1.01×
      zero
      		 911,325 4,872,104 5.35×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 12,687 65,035 5.13×
      expmath
      		 2,112 12,775 6.05×
      fma
      		 506,109 3,234,707 6.39×
      fp
      		 91.2 484.75 5.32×
      fractal
      		 3.8 22.6 5.95×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,207 13,616 6.17×
      logmath
      		 3,564 20,897 5.86×
      matrix
      		 2,577 16,172 6.27×
      matrix-3d
      		 470.9 1,688 3.58×
      monte-carlo
      		 62.95 339.73 5.40×
      mpfr
      		 946.62 4,048 4.28×
      powmath
      		 1,249 7,580 6.07×
      trig
      		 1,349 7,076 5.25×
      veccmp
      		 12,130 51,181 4.22×
      vecfp
      		 1,098 5,464 4.98×
      vecmath
      		 1,752 10,743 6.13×
      vecshuf
      		 443 1,897 4.28×
      vecwide
      		 20,958 94,509 4.51×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.6 26.4 4.71×
      bsearch
      		 189.39 853.44 4.51×
      bubblesort
      		 0.6 1.6 2.67×
      fibsearch
      		 191.67 866.52 4.52×
      heapsort
      		 6.8 32 4.71×
      hsearch
      		 3,707 18,794 5.07×
      insertionsort
      		 6.4 25.6 4.00×
      malloc
      		 1,383,912 11,766,209 8.50×
      mcontend
      		 136.09 1,504 11.06×
      mergesort
      		 18.2 97.4 5.35×
      qsort
      		 11.6 53 4.57×
      skiplist
      		 3,841 21,574 5.62×
      tree
      		 0.8 4.8 6.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 239,395 361,074 1.51×
      cachehammer
      		 486,880 3,269,829 6.72×
      cacheline
      		 28.47 238.9 8.39×
      l1cache
      		 178.16 767.86 4.31×
      memcpy
      		 273.46 1,170 4.28×
      memrate
      		 1.15 4.51 3.92×
      memthrash
      		 73.48 276.81 3.77×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,792,895 76,656,382 7.10×
      spinmem
      		 76.2 108.19 1.42×
      stream
      		 21.55 786 36.47×
      vm
      		 29,544 264,383 8.95×

      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

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      n1-standard-4 415 GiB0
      n1-highmem-4 426 GiB0

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