n2-highcpu-4 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-highcpu-4 is a 4 vCPUs 4 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0142 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,700
(All-cores)
1,404
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
903004
Name
n2-highcpu-4
Description
4 vCPUs 4 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
22
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T05:25:40.502061

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.086 USD/h 0.1434 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.086 USD/h 0.1434 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.086 USD/h 0.1434 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.086 USD/h 0.1434 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0357 USD/h 0.1577 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0448 USD/h 0.1577 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0946 USD/h 0.1577 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0142 USD/h 0.1579 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0439 USD/h 0.1579 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0724 USD/h 0.1579 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0767 USD/h 0.1579 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0403 USD/h 0.1615 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0896 USD/h 0.1615 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0575 USD/h 0.166 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0163 USD/h 0.1663 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0465 USD/h 0.1663 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0318 USD/h 0.1692 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0436 USD/h 0.1692 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0155 USD/h 0.1722 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0581 USD/h 0.1722 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0598 USD/h 0.1722 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0659 USD/h 0.1722 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0803 USD/h 0.1729 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0568 USD/h 0.1735 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0344 USD/h 0.1742 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0674 USD/h 0.1769 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0513 USD/h 0.1841 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0533 USD/h 0.1841 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0534 USD/h 0.1841 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0259 USD/h 0.1848 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0368 USD/h 0.1848 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1018 USD/h 0.1848 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0343 USD/h 0.185 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0685 USD/h 0.1878 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.109 USD/h 0.1928 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0566 USD/h 0.2006 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0932 USD/h 0.2035 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0526 USD/h 0.2051 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0552 USD/h 0.2276 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.038 USD/h 0.2294 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
2.6
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 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

      A dedicated compute-focused virtual machine with a low memory-to-core ratio, designed for lightweight processing and basic text operations.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highcpu-4 is an x86_64 compute-focused virtual machine featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs and 4.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon processor operating at 2.8 GHz. It contains 2 physical cores with hyper-threading, a 33 MB L3 cache, and supports AVX-512 instruction sets. This configuration does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks generally fall into the lower quartiles, with weak multi-core CPU and memory bandwidth results, though it maintains average single-threaded decompression and text processing capabilities. Qualitatively, this instance provides a cost-effective option for dedicated CPU workloads with low memory requirements. It is best suited for lightweight compute tasks, basic text processing, and low-traffic web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.25Score
      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) 364,046 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.19 50.00% 50.00% -56.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,304,103 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.19 20.00% 20.00% -28.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,053 2,416 0.46 10.00% 10.00% -7.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 34,824 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.32 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,977 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,156

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,529

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 4,325
      Compression
      		 55,716
      Encryption
      		 1,700
      Extended Instructions
      		 3,154
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6,651
      Integer Maths
      		 12,358
      Physics
      		 509
      Prime Numbers
      		 26
      Single Threaded
      		 1,977
      String Sorting
      		 6,542

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,053
      Database Operations
      		 1,419
      Memory Latency
      		 53
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,959
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,876
      Memory Write
      		 9,564

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 258.76 252.51 0.98×
      bitops
      		 107,590 245,641 2.28×
      branch
      		 153,125 460,521 3.01×
      funccall
      		 539.46 1,116 2.07×
      funcret
      		 11,300 31,947 2.83×
      hash
      		 125,259 355,067 2.83×
      intmath
      		 22,155 66,007 2.98×
      nop
      		 189,827 328,806 1.73×
      prime
      		 313,771 696,470 2.22×
      rotate
      		 96,346 262,779 2.73×
      str
      		 750,744 1,584,300 2.11×
      wcs
      		 477,624 998,993 2.09×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,431 4,715 1.94×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 594.2 1,328 2.23×
      zlib
      		 48.35 175.17 3.62×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 29,943 68,594 2.29×
      clone
      		 364.57 559.69 1.54×
      context
      		 2,551 5,968 2.34×
      cpu-sched
      		 57.41 235.23 4.10×
      eventfd
      		 46,196 216,911 4.70×
      fault
      		 10,156 26,726 2.63×
      fork
      		 3,893 11,026 2.83×
      getrandom
      		 44,515 107,627 2.42×
      hrtimers
      		 218,716 364,893 1.67×
      mprotect
      		 576,600 633,775 1.10×
      mtx
      		 9,095,618 108,826,138 11.96×
      munmap
      		 2,774 7,183 2.59×
      null
      		 289,174 597,880 2.07×
      pipe
      		 831,919 1,412,553 1.70×
      priv-instr
      		 550,627 1,228,299 2.23×
      resched
      		 605,945 326,693 0.54×
      switch
      		 80,117 674,109 8.41×
      timermix
      		 182,099 523,281 2.87×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,021 9,988 1.42×
      tsc
      		 992,979 2,755,095 2.77×
      usersyscall
      		 380,918 845,260 2.22×
      vdso
      		 82,563,221 233,226,427 2.82×
      vfork
      		 26,686 64,222 2.41×
      x86syscall
      		 3,346,535 6,890,448 2.06×
      yield
      		 2,027,841 1,927,589 0.95×
      zero
      		 1,997,123 4,255,003 2.13×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 16,059 37,131 2.31×
      expmath
      		 2,665 8,080 3.03×
      fma
      		 546,518 1,767,419 3.23×
      fp
      		 117.6 311.05 2.64×
      fractal
      		 4.8 14.4 3.00×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,779 8,505 3.06×
      logmath
      		 4,510 13,254 2.94×
      matrix
      		 2,994 9,528 3.18×
      matrix-3d
      		 515.92 951.06 1.84×
      monte-carlo
      		 139.51 311.16 2.23×
      mpfr
      		 1,205 2,561 2.12×
      powmath
      		 1,578 4,799 3.04×
      trig
      		 1,701 4,477 2.63×
      veccmp
      		 15,343 32,315 2.11×
      vecfp
      		 1,294 3,247 2.51×
      vecmath
      		 2,178 6,821 3.13×
      vecshuf
      		 562.65 1,200 2.13×
      vecwide
      		 22,561 50,613 2.24×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.2 16.8 2.33×
      bsearch
      		 240.06 539.72 2.25×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 1.6 2.00×
      fibsearch
      		 242.94 551.37 2.27×
      heapsort
      		 8.6 20.8 2.42×
      hsearch
      		 4,871 12,168 2.50×
      insertionsort
      		 8 16 2.00×
      malloc
      		 1,709,391 7,010,019 4.10×
      mcontend
      		 205.71 878.52 4.27×
      mergesort
      		 23.2 62.2 2.68×
      qsort
      		 14.8 34 2.30×
      skiplist
      		 4,855 13,666 2.81×
      tree
      		 1.2 2.4 2.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 296,210 373,382 1.26×
      cachehammer
      		 366,132 1,309,681 3.58×
      cacheline
      		 26.33 113.55 4.31×
      l1cache
      		 226.44 488.69 2.16×
      memcpy
      		 346.23 740.83 2.14×
      memrate
      		 1.17 3.06 2.62×
      memthrash
      		 66.61 149.5 2.24×
      ptr-chase
      		 11,487,859 41,750,836 3.63×
      spinmem
      		 221.39 192.99 0.87×
      stream
      		 30.37 293.94 9.68×
      vm
      		 54,733 230,867 4.22×

      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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