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
2026-10-24T12:01:06.418596

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
0.0715 USD/h 0.3155 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0896 USD/h 0.3155 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.1892 USD/h 0.3155 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0284 USD/h 0.3157 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0877 USD/h 0.3157 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1447 USD/h 0.3157 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1533 USD/h 0.3158 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0806 USD/h 0.323 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1792 USD/h 0.323 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.115 USD/h 0.3321 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0327 USD/h 0.3327 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.093 USD/h 0.3327 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0636 USD/h 0.3384 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0873 USD/h 0.3384 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.031 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1162 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1196 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1318 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1607 USD/h 0.3459 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1136 USD/h 0.347 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0688 USD/h 0.3484 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1348 USD/h 0.3538 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1026 USD/h 0.3683 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1066 USD/h 0.3683 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1068 USD/h 0.3683 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0519 USD/h 0.3695 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0737 USD/h 0.3695 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.2036 USD/h 0.3695 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0686 USD/h 0.37 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1371 USD/h 0.3757 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.218 USD/h 0.3856 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1131 USD/h 0.4013 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1863 USD/h 0.4069 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.1051 USD/h 0.4101 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1105 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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.37 50.00% 50.00% -39.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,285,588 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.36 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,329 2,416 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 51,982 MB/sec 108,466 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
      		 8,305
      Compression
      		 110,876
      Encryption
      		 3,419
      Extended Instructions
      		 6,431
      Floating Point Maths
      		 13,325
      Integer Maths
      		 24,790
      Physics
      		 855
      Prime Numbers
      		 42
      Single Threaded
      		 1,983
      String Sorting
      		 13,075

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,329
      Database Operations
      		 2,837
      Memory Latency
      		 55
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,800
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,544
      Memory Write
      		 9,366

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 222.05 241.45 1.09×
      bitops
      		 107,988 495,041 4.58×
      branch
      		 153,632 927,472 6.04×
      funccall
      		 541.32 2,232 4.12×
      funcret
      		 11,309 64,285 5.68×
      hash
      		 125,671 716,667 5.70×
      intmath
      		 22,428 132,425 5.90×
      nop
      		 190,819 659,458 3.46×
      prime
      		 314,163 1,405,961 4.48×
      rotate
      		 96,318 532,109 5.52×
      str
      		 745,334 3,257,434 4.37×
      wcs
      		 470,506 1,990,965 4.23×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,427 9,483 3.91×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 578.03 2,789 4.82×
      zlib
      		 53.05 309.05 5.83×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 30,001 126,489 4.22×
      clone
      		 332.36 1,115 3.35×
      context
      		 2,593 12,099 4.67×
      cpu-sched
      		 57.11 507.97 8.89×
      eventfd
      		 47,947 429,117 8.95×
      fault
      		 10,269 53,749 5.23×
      fork
      		 3,904 20,999 5.38×
      getrandom
      		 44,591 216,431 4.85×
      hrtimers
      		 136,895 851,752 6.22×
      mprotect
      		 845,634 1,272,150 1.50×
      mtx
      		 9,799,949 236,237,725 24.11×
      munmap
      		 2,556 14,223 5.56×
      null
      		 292,827 1,210,171 4.13×
      pipe
      		 841,632 2,882,815 3.43×
      priv-instr
      		 550,883 2,490,493 4.52×
      resched
      		 1,463,687 571,413 0.39×
      switch
      		 88,641 1,370,042 15.46×
      timermix
      		 183,954 1,067,593 5.80×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 10,604 15,614 1.47×
      tsc
      		 993,841 5,537,593 5.57×
      usersyscall
      		 372,909 1,708,072 4.58×
      vdso
      		 82,533,264 467,252,999 5.66×
      vfork
      		 27,172 108,073 3.98×
      x86syscall
      		 3,350,742 13,796,816 4.12×
      yield
      		 4,490,126 4,402,511 0.98×
      zero
      		 1,999,546 8,553,085 4.28×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 15,549 74,450 4.79×
      expmath
      		 2,666 16,252 6.10×
      fma
      		 546,260 3,549,257 6.50×
      fp
      		 119.62 606.17 5.07×
      fractal
      		 4.8 28.8 6.00×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,764 17,383 6.29×
      logmath
      		 4,515 26,599 5.89×
      matrix
      		 3,011 19,042 6.32×
      matrix-3d
      		 554.87 1,828 3.29×
      monte-carlo
      		 139.57 623.36 4.47×
      mpfr
      		 1,209 5,171 4.28×
      powmath
      		 1,575 9,634 6.12×
      trig
      		 1,704 9,019 5.29×
      veccmp
      		 15,425 64,882 4.21×
      vecfp
      		 1,296 6,433 4.96×
      vecmath
      		 2,174 13,704 6.30×
      vecshuf
      		 562.74 2,412 4.29×
      vecwide
      		 23,570 102,285 4.34×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.2 33.6 4.67×
      bsearch
      		 238.91 1,095 4.58×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 3.2 4.00×
      fibsearch
      		 243.45 1,111 4.56×
      heapsort
      		 8.6 41.6 4.84×
      hsearch
      		 4,863 24,605 5.06×
      insertionsort
      		 8.2 32 3.90×
      malloc
      		 1,867,708 14,608,484 7.82×
      mcontend
      		 147.54 1,756 11.90×
      mergesort
      		 23.2 124.2 5.35×
      qsort
      		 14.8 67.6 4.57×
      skiplist
      		 4,857 27,627 5.69×
      tree
      		 1.2 4.8 4.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 310,413 482,838 1.56×
      cachehammer
      		 372,693 2,657,138 7.13×
      cacheline
      		 32.54 284.17 8.73×
      l1cache
      		 218.82 973.38 4.45×
      memcpy
      		 346.23 1,487 4.30×
      memrate
      		 1.17 6.15 5.26×
      memthrash
      		 114.63 300.9 2.62×
      ptr-chase
      		 13,100,528 82,454,855 6.29×
      spinmem
      		 221.99 336.77 1.52×
      stream
      		 30.34 1,227 40.44×
      vm
      		 54,086 291,258 5.39×

      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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      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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