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
2026-09-09T10:47:04.808971

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
0.0796 USD/h 0.3155 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0904 USD/h 0.3155 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.1628 USD/h 0.3155 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0284 USD/h 0.3157 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0977 USD/h 0.3157 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1392 USD/h 0.3157 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1398 USD/h 0.3158 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0812 USD/h 0.323 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1724 USD/h 0.323 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1223 USD/h 0.3321 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0364 USD/h 0.3327 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.1036 USD/h 0.3327 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0641 USD/h 0.3384 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0796 USD/h 0.3384 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.031 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1148 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1172 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1204 USD/h 0.3445 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1407 USD/h 0.3459 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1208 USD/h 0.347 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0807 USD/h 0.3484 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1501 USD/h 0.3538 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1015 USD/h 0.3683 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1034 USD/h 0.3683 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1254 USD/h 0.3683 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0526 USD/h 0.3695 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0742 USD/h 0.3695 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.177 USD/h 0.3695 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0691 USD/h 0.37 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1319 USD/h 0.3757 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.2197 USD/h 0.3856 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1203 USD/h 0.4013 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1878 USD/h 0.4069 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.1011 USD/h 0.4101 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0918 USD/h 0.4552 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0726 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
132.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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 multi-core compute instance featuring a lean memory footprint optimized for CPU-bound processing and web serving workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highcpu-8 is an x86_64 compute-optimized server featuring an Intel Xeon processor with 8 dedicated vCPUs (4 physical cores) running at 2.8 GHz, paired with 8.0 GB of RAM. This configuration provides a lean 1.0 GB of memory per vCPU and does not include local storage or GPUs. Performance benchmarks show average multi-core capabilities, with a Passmark CPU score of 8305.34 and a stress-ng multi-core score of 7430.34, though single-core performance is weak. The server delivers average memory bandwidth, reaching 412.9 GB/sec for cached reads, and handles static web serving at 6.62 GB/sec. The low memory-to-CPU ratio makes this instance a cost-efficient choice for compute-bound workloads that do not require large memory footprints, such as software compilation, text processing, static web serving, and lightweight database operations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.427Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.367 50.00% 50.00% -39.40%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,285,588 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.367 20.00% 20.00% -18.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,329 2,418 0.549 10.00% 10.00% -5.82%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 51,982 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.481 10.00% 10.00% -7.06%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,983 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.839 10.00% 10.00% -1.74%

      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

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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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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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