n2-highcpu-8 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-highcpu-8 is a 8 vCPUs 8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0284 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7,430
(All-cores)
1,410
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
903008
Name
n2-highcpu-8
Description
8 vCPUs 8 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-15T01:33:34.367340

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.172 USD/h 0.2868 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.172 USD/h 0.2868 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.172 USD/h 0.2868 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1721 USD/h 0.2868 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.068 USD/h 0.3155 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0853 USD/h 0.3155 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.1866 USD/h 0.3155 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0284 USD/h 0.3157 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0836 USD/h 0.3157 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1378 USD/h 0.3157 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1461 USD/h 0.3158 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0849 USD/h 0.323 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1706 USD/h 0.323 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1045 USD/h 0.3321 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0344 USD/h 0.3327 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0979 USD/h 0.3327 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0606 USD/h 0.3384 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0919 USD/h 0.3384 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.031 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1139 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1198 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1223 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1691 USD/h 0.3459 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1196 USD/h 0.347 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0625 USD/h 0.3484 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1419 USD/h 0.3538 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0977 USD/h 0.3683 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1066 USD/h 0.3683 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1124 USD/h 0.3683 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0472 USD/h 0.3695 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0776 USD/h 0.3695 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1939 USD/h 0.3695 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0722 USD/h 0.37 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1306 USD/h 0.3757 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.2077 USD/h 0.3856 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1191 USD/h 0.4013 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1774 USD/h 0.4069 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.1001 USD/h 0.4101 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1052 USD/h 0.4552 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.076 USD/h 0.4589 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.8 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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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
5.3
Scalability
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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 core-dense x86_64 compute configuration offering eight vCPUs and low memory overhead for microservices, web serving, and compilation workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highcpu-8 is a compute-optimized virtual machine powered by a 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon x86_64 processor. The configuration delivers 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores with hyper-threading and 33 MB of L3 cache, paired with 8.0 GB of system memory. Hardware feature support includes AVX-512 and AES instructions, though the instance lacks local NVMe storage and discrete GPUs. In performance benchmarks, the server demonstrates average multi-core CPU and memory bandwidth performance, achieving 7.13 million Redis SET operations per second and 6.62 GB/s in static web serving tests. Single-core processing throughput remains lower. Designed for compute-heavy tasks that do not demand extensive memory, n2-highcpu-8 offers core-dense allocation efficiency. The key tradeoff is the strict 1 GB per vCPU memory capacity, making it best suited for lightweight web serving, CI/CD code compilation, network microservices, and small-model inference tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.42Score
      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) 704,235 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.37 50.00% 50.00% -39.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,285,588 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.36 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,329 2,417 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 51,982 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.47 10.00% 10.00% -7.30%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,983 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,138

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,336

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8305
      Compression
      		 110876
      Encryption
      		 3419
      Extended Instructions
      		 6431
      Floating Point Maths
      		 13325
      Integer Maths
      		 24790
      Physics
      		 855
      Prime Numbers
      		 42
      Single Threaded
      		 1983
      String Sorting
      		 13075

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1329
      Database Operations
      		 2837
      Memory Latency
      		 55
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23800
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9544
      Memory Write
      		 9366

      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

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators
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      n2-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n2-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n2-standard-4 416 GiB0
      n2-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      n2-standard-8 832 GiB0

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