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
2026-10-26T04:04:46.489167

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
0.0326 USD/h 0.1441 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.041 USD/h 0.1441 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0864 USD/h 0.1441 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.013 USD/h 0.1442 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0401 USD/h 0.1442 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0661 USD/h 0.1442 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.07 USD/h 0.1442 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0368 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0819 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0526 USD/h 0.1517 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0149 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0425 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0291 USD/h 0.1546 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0399 USD/h 0.1546 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0142 USD/h 0.1573 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0546 USD/h 0.1573 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0531 USD/h 0.1574 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0602 USD/h 0.1574 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0734 USD/h 0.158 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0519 USD/h 0.1585 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0314 USD/h 0.1592 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0616 USD/h 0.1616 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0486 USD/h 0.1679 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0469 USD/h 0.1682 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0487 USD/h 0.1682 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0236 USD/h 0.1688 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0337 USD/h 0.1688 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.093 USD/h 0.1688 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0313 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0626 USD/h 0.1716 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0996 USD/h 0.1762 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0517 USD/h 0.1833 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0851 USD/h 0.1859 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.048 USD/h 0.1874 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0505 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0347 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
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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 memory-optimized x86 server providing sixteen gigabytes of RAM per two vCPUs for light caching and memory-bound workloads.

      Memory Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highmem-2 is a memory-optimized cloud server equipped with 2 vCPUs across 1 physical Intel Xeon core operating at 2.8 GHz and 16.0 GB of RAM. Featuring an x86_64 architecture with 33 MB L3 cache, it supports AVX-512 and AES instructions. The server includes no local NVMe storage or GPU resources. In benchmark tests, single-core CPU performance reaches 1827.69 in stress-ng, while multi-core scores remain lower with a Geekbench multi-core result of 1321.0. Uncached large-block memory read and write speeds are 13.86 GB/sec and 11.77 GB/sec respectively. Application testing indicates 1.67 million Redis SET operations per second and 1.61 GB/sec static web throughput. The instance provides strong memory density per core, making it effective for light in-memory caching, low-concurrency database tasks, and memory-dependent background processes.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.14Score
      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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.084 50.00% 50.00% -71.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 915,004 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.077 20.00% 20.00% -40.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,701 2,416 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,781 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.2 10.00% 10.00% -15.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,939 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,099

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,321

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2,164
      Compression
      		 27,096
      Encryption
      		 845
      Extended Instructions
      		 1,514
      Floating Point Maths
      		 3,310
      Integer Maths
      		 6,151
      Physics
      		 258
      Prime Numbers
      		 12
      Single Threaded
      		 1,939
      String Sorting
      		 3,253

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,701
      Database Operations
      		 716
      Memory Latency
      		 52
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,802
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,393
      Memory Write
      		 9,629

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 757.19 757.98 1.00×
      bitops
      		 107,049 122,715 1.15×
      branch
      		 152,829 230,466 1.51×
      funccall
      		 535.77 556.88 1.04×
      funcret
      		 11,260 15,913 1.41×
      hash
      		 124,644 179,711 1.44×
      intmath
      		 22,085 32,803 1.49×
      nop
      		 189,104 164,117 0.87×
      prime
      		 310,711 348,526 1.12×
      rotate
      		 96,077 131,702 1.37×
      str
      		 746,202 794,099 1.06×
      wcs
      		 477,787 506,252 1.06×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,411 2,358 0.98×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 588.47 700.26 1.19×
      zlib
      		 65.74 71.26 1.08×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 29,957 36,117 1.21×
      clone
      		 283.22 297.87 1.05×
      context
      		 2,525 3,006 1.19×
      cpu-sched
      		 59.25 130.68 2.21×
      eventfd
      		 35,151 114,645 3.26×
      fault
      		 10,007 14,339 1.43×
      fork
      		 3,664 6,570 1.79×
      getrandom
      		 44,228 53,797 1.22×
      hrtimers
      		 139,402 178,202 1.28×
      mprotect
      		 328,176 332,913 1.01×
      mtx
      		 6,656,927 62,444,224 9.38×
      munmap
      		 2,582 3,902 1.51×
      null
      		 287,808 302,638 1.05×
      pipe
      		 1,099,996 729,734 0.66×
      priv-instr
      		 546,422 630,713 1.15×
      resched
      		 216,611 158,954 0.73×
      switch
      		 79,350 321,113 4.05×
      timermix
      		 168,254 262,106 1.56×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 4,754 5,504 1.16×
      tsc
      		 990,078 1,374,089 1.39×
      usersyscall
      		 381,351 430,820 1.13×
      vdso
      		 82,257,942 115,132,301 1.40×
      vfork
      		 23,203 37,654 1.62×
      x86syscall
      		 3,263,108 3,440,088 1.05×
      yield
      		 995,987 995,905 1.00×
      zero
      		 1,982,125 2,151,661 1.09×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 15,764 18,684 1.19×
      expmath
      		 2,661 4,048 1.52×
      fma
      		 544,456 876,538 1.61×
      fp
      		 124.66 152.79 1.23×
      fractal
      		 4.8 7.2 1.50×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,767 4,310 1.56×
      logmath
      		 4,493 6,596 1.47×
      matrix
      		 2,983 4,730 1.59×
      matrix-3d
      		 514.1 507.24 0.99×
      monte-carlo
      		 139.13 160.5 1.15×
      mpfr
      		 1,195 1,286 1.08×
      powmath
      		 1,568 2,394 1.53×
      trig
      		 1,687 2,233 1.32×
      veccmp
      		 15,296 16,186 1.06×
      vecfp
      		 1,288 1,629 1.26×
      vecmath
      		 2,170 3,408 1.57×
      vecshuf
      		 557.76 599.06 1.07×
      vecwide
      		 22,452 25,449 1.13×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7 8.4 1.20×
      bsearch
      		 236.89 271.34 1.15×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 0.8 1.00×
      fibsearch
      		 241.58 271.56 1.12×
      heapsort
      		 8.6 10.2 1.19×
      hsearch
      		 4,952 6,033 1.22×
      insertionsort
      		 8 8 1.00×
      malloc
      		 1,789,607 3,207,878 1.79×
      mcontend
      		 534.27 546.59 1.02×
      mergesort
      		 23 30.8 1.34×
      qsort
      		 14.6 17 1.16×
      skiplist
      		 4,833 6,844 1.42×
      tree
      		 1 1.6 1.60×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 296,570 295,909 1.00×
      cachehammer
      		 370,515 679,164 1.83×
      cacheline
      		 19.88 38.22 1.92×
      l1cache
      		 225.68 243.52 1.08×
      memcpy
      		 342.2 368.87 1.08×
      memrate
      		 1.17 1.54 1.32×
      memthrash
      		 77.05 77.8 1.01×
      ptr-chase
      		 11,798,462 21,289,535 1.80×
      spinmem
      		 174.39 0.4 0.00×
      stream
      		 30.27 72.79 2.40×
      vm
      		 56,226 62,061 1.10×

      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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