n2-highmem-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-highmem-2 is a 2 vCPUs 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.013 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,876
(All-cores)
1,828
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
902002
Name
n2-highmem-2
Description
2 vCPUs 16 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-11T04:47:38.133466

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0786 USD/h 0.131 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0786 USD/h 0.131 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0786 USD/h 0.131 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0786 USD/h 0.131 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0363 USD/h 0.1441 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0413 USD/h 0.1441 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0744 USD/h 0.1441 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.013 USD/h 0.1442 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0446 USD/h 0.1442 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0636 USD/h 0.1442 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0639 USD/h 0.1442 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0371 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0787 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0559 USD/h 0.1517 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0166 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0474 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0293 USD/h 0.1546 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0363 USD/h 0.1546 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0142 USD/h 0.1573 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.055 USD/h 0.1573 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0525 USD/h 0.1574 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0536 USD/h 0.1574 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0643 USD/h 0.158 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0552 USD/h 0.1585 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0369 USD/h 0.1592 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0686 USD/h 0.1616 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0463 USD/h 0.1679 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0472 USD/h 0.1682 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0573 USD/h 0.1682 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.024 USD/h 0.1688 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0339 USD/h 0.1688 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0809 USD/h 0.1688 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0315 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0602 USD/h 0.1716 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.1004 USD/h 0.1762 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.055 USD/h 0.1833 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0858 USD/h 0.1859 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0462 USD/h 0.1874 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0419 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0332 USD/h 0.2096 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
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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 memory-optimized virtual server featuring a high memory-to-core ratio for lightweight, memory-bound workloads requiring minimal parallel processing.

      Memory Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highmem-2 is a memory-optimized instance featuring 2 vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor running at 2.8 GHz. It operates on a single physical core with two threads, offering a dedicated CPU allocation but no local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks indicate average single-core CPU capabilities, with a stress-ng score of 1827.69. However, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth fall into the bottom 10% due to the single physical core constraint. This instance provides a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core, making it qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-bound workloads that do not require heavy parallel processing. It is suited for lightweight databases, caching systems, and memory-intensive applications with low parallel compute demands.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      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) 164,247 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0857 50.00% 50.00% -70.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 915,004 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.0783 20.00% 20.00% -39.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,701 2,418 0.703 10.00% 10.00% -3.46%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,781 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.201 10.00% 10.00% -14.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,939 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.82 10.00% 10.00% -1.96%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,099

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,321

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2164
      Compression
      		 27096
      Encryption
      		 845
      Extended Instructions
      		 1514
      Floating Point Maths
      		 3310
      Integer Maths
      		 6151
      Physics
      		 258
      Prime Numbers
      		 12
      Single Threaded
      		 1939
      String Sorting
      		 3253

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1701
      Database Operations
      		 716
      Memory Latency
      		 52
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23802
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10393
      Memory Write
      		 9629

      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

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      n2-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n2-standard-4 416 GiB0
      n2-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-8 88 GiB0
      n2-standard-8 832 GiB0

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