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
2026-09-14T19:11:00.843186

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
0.0209 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0215 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0232 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.033 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0367 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0386 USD/h 0.0789 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0409 USD/h 0.0807 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0193 USD/h 0.0808 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0321 USD/h 0.083 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0086 USD/h 0.0832 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0272 USD/h 0.0832 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0168 USD/h 0.0846 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0209 USD/h 0.0846 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0078 USD/h 0.0861 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0278 USD/h 0.0861 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0286 USD/h 0.0861 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0301 USD/h 0.0861 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0387 USD/h 0.0865 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0287 USD/h 0.0868 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0192 USD/h 0.0871 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0357 USD/h 0.0885 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0266 USD/h 0.0921 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0271 USD/h 0.0921 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0345 USD/h 0.0921 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0125 USD/h 0.0924 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0176 USD/h 0.0924 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0465 USD/h 0.0924 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0164 USD/h 0.0925 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0363 USD/h 0.0939 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0522 USD/h 0.0964 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0331 USD/h 0.1003 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0446 USD/h 0.1017 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0278 USD/h 0.1025 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0252 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
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
2 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 dedicated dual-vCPU compute instance with minimal memory, designed for lightweight processing tasks requiring Intel Xeon architecture.

      Compute Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highcpu-2 is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance configured with 2 vCPUs and 2.0 GB of RAM, providing a 1.0 GB per vCPU ratio. Powered by a 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processor with 1 physical core and hyper-threading, it features dedicated CPU allocation but lacks bundled local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks place this instance in the lower tiers, with a stress-ng single-core score of 1399.29 and a multi-core score of 1841.88. Memory bandwidth is limited, with large block uncached writes at 11.78 GB/sec. Despite these constraints, the processor supports AVX-512 and AES instruction sets. This instance is best suited for lightweight, compute-focused workloads, basic text processing, and small-scale web serving that require dedicated CPU resources but have minimal memory requirements.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.142Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0919 50.00% 50.00% -69.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,115,153 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.0955 20.00% 20.00% -37.50%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 917.3 2,418 0.379 10.00% 10.00% -9.25%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 20,325 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.188 10.00% 10.00% -15.40%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,920 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.812 10.00% 10.00% -2.06%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,111

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,311

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2160
      Compression
      		 27305
      Encryption
      		 839
      Extended Instructions
      		 1516
      Floating Point Maths
      		 3302
      Integer Maths
      		 6140
      Physics
      		 257
      Prime Numbers
      		 12
      Single Threaded
      		 1920
      String Sorting
      		 3214

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 917
      Database Operations
      		 688
      Memory Latency
      		 53
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23415
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9304
      Memory Write
      		 9013

      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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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      n2-standard-4 416 GiB0
      n2-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-8 88 GiB0
      n2-standard-8 832 GiB0

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