n2-highcpu-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-highcpu-2 is a 2 vCPUs 2 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0071 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,842
(All-cores)
1,399
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
903002
Name
n2-highcpu-2
Description
2 vCPUs 2 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-29T17:49:51.224643

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.043 USD/h 0.0717 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.043 USD/h 0.0717 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.043 USD/h 0.0717 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.043 USD/h 0.0717 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0071 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.017 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0241 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0246 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0398 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0402 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0473 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.047 USD/h 0.0807 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0222 USD/h 0.0808 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0316 USD/h 0.083 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.009 USD/h 0.0832 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0221 USD/h 0.0832 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0151 USD/h 0.0846 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0229 USD/h 0.0846 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0078 USD/h 0.0861 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0284 USD/h 0.0861 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0305 USD/h 0.0861 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0346 USD/h 0.0861 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0382 USD/h 0.0865 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0298 USD/h 0.0868 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0189 USD/h 0.0871 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0354 USD/h 0.0885 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0254 USD/h 0.0921 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0269 USD/h 0.0921 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.028 USD/h 0.0921 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0136 USD/h 0.0924 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0193 USD/h 0.0924 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0534 USD/h 0.0924 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.018 USD/h 0.0925 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.036 USD/h 0.0939 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0518 USD/h 0.0964 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0269 USD/h 0.1003 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0489 USD/h 0.1017 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0276 USD/h 0.1025 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0262 USD/h 0.1138 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0181 USD/h 0.1147 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.8 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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
33 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, 3dnowprefetch, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512_vnni, 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

      Server Description

      Compact x86 compute instance featuring a 1:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio for low-footprint processing tasks without dedicated local storage.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highcpu-2 is an x86_64 compute-oriented virtual machine powered by a 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processor. It offers 2 vCPUs derived from 1 physical core with hyperthreading, paired with 2.0 GB of system memory, yielding a low 1.0 GB per vCPU ratio. The architecture includes 33 MB of L3 cache alongside instruction set extensions such as AVX-512 and AES encryption acceleration. The server includes no attached local storage or GPUs. Benchmark testing places its execution capacity in lower tiers, with a single-core Geekbench score of 1111.0 and multi-core score of 1311.0, along with static web serving throughput of 2.06 GB/sec. Given its low memory footprint and dedicated compute allocation, n2-highcpu-2 provides a specialized hardware profile suited for small compute-bound tasks, simple web microservices, and lightweight batch processing where high RAM capacity is unnecessary.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.14Score
      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) 176,156 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.095 50.00% 50.00% -69.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,115,153 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.092 20.00% 20.00% -38.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 920 2,416 0.38 10.00% 10.00% -9.20%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 20,325 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.18 10.00% 10.00% -16.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,920 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,111

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,311

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2,160
      Compression
      		 27,305
      Encryption
      		 839
      Extended Instructions
      		 1,516
      Floating Point Maths
      		 3,302
      Integer Maths
      		 6,140
      Physics
      		 257
      Prime Numbers
      		 12
      Single Threaded
      		 1,920
      String Sorting
      		 3,214

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 917
      Database Operations
      		 688
      Memory Latency
      		 53
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,415
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,304
      Memory Write
      		 9,013

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 755.38 755.68 1.00×
      bitops
      		 106,433 122,462 1.15×
      branch
      		 152,018 229,551 1.51×
      funccall
      		 536.34 555.46 1.04×
      funcret
      		 11,124 15,956 1.43×
      hash
      		 123,906 178,663 1.44×
      intmath
      		 21,982 32,713 1.49×
      nop
      		 188,294 163,900 0.87×
      prime
      		 309,995 348,056 1.12×
      rotate
      		 95,742 131,785 1.38×
      str
      		 742,597 739,387 1.00×
      wcs
      		 476,658 496,917 1.04×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,401 2,350 0.98×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 578.26 697.87 1.21×
      zlib
      		 44.68 65.21 1.46×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 29,579 35,603 1.20×
      clone
      		 193.55 227.59 1.18×
      context
      		 2,532 2,937 1.16×
      cpu-sched
      		 68.26 127.73 1.87×
      eventfd
      		 35,420 111,618 3.15×
      fault
      		 10,393 14,255 1.37×
      fork
      		 3,550 6,099 1.72×
      getrandom
      		 44,107 53,588 1.21×
      hrtimers
      		 162,964 186,229 1.14×
      mprotect
      		 324,234 325,208 1.00×
      mtx
      		 6,849,814 61,085,439 8.92×
      munmap
      		 2,479 3,816 1.54×
      null
      		 284,321 293,290 1.03×
      pipe
      		 1,075,231 708,481 0.66×
      priv-instr
      		 544,487 627,780 1.15×
      resched
      		 213,883 157,755 0.74×
      switch
      		 79,140 335,093 4.23×
      timermix
      		 169,159 260,787 1.54×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 4,506 5,201 1.15×
      tsc
      		 986,275 1,369,011 1.39×
      usersyscall
      		 374,806 424,639 1.13×
      vdso
      		 82,112,319 115,802,742 1.41×
      vfork
      		 22,400 35,195 1.57×
      x86syscall
      		 3,211,100 3,392,523 1.06×
      yield
      		 1,043,134 1,295,558 1.24×
      zero
      		 1,961,183 2,079,925 1.06×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 15,685 18,508 1.18×
      expmath
      		 2,651 4,033 1.52×
      fma
      		 543,184 871,117 1.60×
      fp
      		 128.48 148.8 1.16×
      fractal
      		 4.8 7.2 1.50×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,755 4,304 1.56×
      logmath
      		 4,466 6,587 1.47×
      matrix
      		 2,930 4,345 1.48×
      matrix-3d
      		 414.32 449.82 1.09×
      monte-carlo
      		 138.95 160.04 1.15×
      mpfr
      		 1,175 1,278 1.09×
      powmath
      		 1,567 2,389 1.52×
      trig
      		 1,676 2,232 1.33×
      veccmp
      		 15,254 16,032 1.05×
      vecfp
      		 1,262 1,675 1.33×
      vecmath
      		 2,164 3,397 1.57×
      vecshuf
      		 556.79 597.69 1.07×
      vecwide
      		 23,199 25,316 1.09×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7 8.4 1.20×
      bsearch
      		 235.61 270.69 1.15×
      bubblesort
      		 0.6 0.8 1.33×
      fibsearch
      		 240.34 269.34 1.12×
      heapsort
      		 8.4 10.2 1.21×
      hsearch
      		 4,922 6,176 1.25×
      insertionsort
      		 8 8 1.00×
      malloc
      		 1,362,922 2,473,931 1.82×
      mcontend
      		 562.16 542.91 0.97×
      mergesort
      		 22.8 30.4 1.33×
      qsort
      		 14.4 16.8 1.17×
      skiplist
      		 4,826 6,710 1.39×
      tree
      		 0.8 1.2 1.50×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 268,748 275,695 1.03×
      cachehammer
      		 354,645 645,518 1.82×
      cacheline
      		 19.71 39.06 1.98×
      l1cache
      		 218.86 240.11 1.10×
      memcpy
      		 341.67 369.08 1.08×
      memrate
      		 1.17 1.54 1.32×
      memthrash
      		 64.66 67.75 1.05×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,568,337 19,764,851 1.87×
      spinmem
      		 174.99 0.4 0.00×
      stream
      		 29.63 70.81 2.39×
      vm
      		 54,663 58,726 1.07×

      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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