n2-highmem-32 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-highmem-32 is a 32 vCPUs 256 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2077 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
30,098
(All-cores)
1,838
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
902032
Name
n2-highmem-32
Description
32 vCPUs 256 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
76
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T21:12:47.934430

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
1.2575 USD/h 2.0962 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
1.2575 USD/h 2.0962 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
1.2575 USD/h 2.0962 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
1.2578 USD/h 2.0962 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
1.383 USD/h 2.3058 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.522 USD/h 2.306 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.6553 USD/h 2.306 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.2077 USD/h 2.3076 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.6412 USD/h 2.3076 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
1.0577 USD/h 2.3076 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
1.1206 USD/h 2.3078 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.5889 USD/h 2.3607 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
1.3096 USD/h 2.3607 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.8409 USD/h 2.4272 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.2388 USD/h 2.4316 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.6805 USD/h 2.4316 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.465 USD/h 2.4735 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.6381 USD/h 2.4735 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.2267 USD/h 2.5176 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.8739 USD/h 2.5176 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.8497 USD/h 2.5178 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.9638 USD/h 2.5178 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
1.1745 USD/h 2.528 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.8307 USD/h 2.5365 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.5021 USD/h 2.5469 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.9852 USD/h 2.5858 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.7777 USD/h 2.687 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.7498 USD/h 2.6919 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.7798 USD/h 2.6919 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.5389 USD/h 2.7006 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
1.4876 USD/h 2.7006 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.3784 USD/h 2.7007 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.5007 USD/h 2.7041 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
1.0019 USD/h 2.7461 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
1.5943 USD/h 2.8185 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.8271 USD/h 2.933 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
1.3615 USD/h 2.9742 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.7679 USD/h 2.9976 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.8073 USD/h 3.3274 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.5556 USD/h 3.354 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
66 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
16.4
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 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_64 virtual server featuring 256 GB of RAM and 32 dedicated vCPUs for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highmem-32 is an x86_64 memory-optimized server instance featuring 32 dedicated vCPUs and 256.0 GB of RAM, yielding 8.0 GB of memory per vCPU. Powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.8 GHz with 16 physical cores, it lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks place the instance in the average tier, with a multi-core Geekbench score of 10454.0 and a Redis SET throughput of 26.96 million operations per second. It delivers a cached memory read bandwidth of 1639.21 GB/sec. Given its high memory-to-vCPU ratio and average compute capabilities, this instance is suited for memory-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, caching layers, and software compilation, though it exhibits weak performance on large-scale 70B LLM inference tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.3Score
      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) 2,806,024 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.5 50.00% 50.00% +22.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 16,251,080 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.3 20.00% 20.00% +5.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,751 2,416 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 109,255 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,991 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,196

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 10,454

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 28,170
      Compression
      		 439,983
      Encryption
      		 13,715
      Extended Instructions
      		 26,199
      Floating Point Maths
      		 53,445
      Integer Maths
      		 99,452
      Physics
      		 3,091
      Prime Numbers
      		 152
      Single Threaded
      		 1,991
      String Sorting
      		 51,445

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,751
      Database Operations
      		 11,561
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,230
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,908
      Memory Write
      		 10,420

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 191.02 254.72 1.33×
      bitops
      		 126,450 2,061,559 16.30×
      branch
      		 133,187 3,372,460 25.32×
      funccall
      		 616.15 10,123 16.43×
      funcret
      		 10,690 246,317 23.04×
      hash
      		 146,457 3,390,698 23.15×
      intmath
      		 59,321 1,167,847 19.69×
      nop
      		 183,015 2,597,253 14.19×
      prime
      		 383,154 6,658,468 17.38×
      rotate
      		 94,837 1,628,025 17.17×
      str
      		 873,226 14,253,674 16.32×
      wcs
      		 607,754 8,188,010 13.47×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,752 40,856 14.85×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 706.4 13,924 19.71×
      zlib
      		 56.53 1,312 23.21×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 36,888 257,787 6.99×
      clone
      		 282.55 4,103 14.52×
      context
      		 4,581 110,830 24.19×
      cpu-sched
      		 68.82 2,039 29.63×
      eventfd
      		 49,660 1,142,732 23.01×
      fault
      		 16,494 204,972 12.43×
      fork
      		 5,296 58,632 11.07×
      getrandom
      		 47,950 874,155 18.23×
      hrtimers
      		 166,801 3,408,246 20.43×
      mprotect
      		 736,129 7,726,301 10.50×
      mtx
      		 23,400,840 956,733,244 40.88×
      munmap
      		 3,647 47,060 12.90×
      null
      		 687,416 13,904,277 20.23×
      pipe
      		 834,749 17,843,358 21.38×
      priv-instr
      		 795,109 12,216,666 15.36×
      resched
      		 8,775,883 1,996,392 0.23×
      switch
      		 70,814 7,108,364 100.38×
      timermix
      		 176,651 4,618,365 26.14×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,670 54,625 6.30×
      tsc
      		 745,650 17,597,916 23.60×
      usersyscall
      		 610,883 10,124,256 16.57×
      vdso
      		 89,120,121 1,819,829,691 20.42×
      vfork
      		 31,964 160,870 5.03×
      x86syscall
      		 7,928,449 175,860,785 22.18×
      yield
      		 29,899,023 28,980,778 0.97×
      zero
      		 4,242,527 77,829,512 18.35×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,375 295,680 20.57×
      expmath
      		 2,805 65,530 23.36×
      fma
      		 620,266 17,218,491 27.76×
      fp
      		 180 3,162 17.56×
      fractal
      		 4.8 114.03 23.76×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,982 70,300 23.57×
      logmath
      		 4,709 108,871 23.12×
      matrix
      		 3,422 82,342 24.06×
      matrix-3d
      		 731.85 7,282 9.95×
      monte-carlo
      		 237.29 5,190 21.87×
      mpfr
      		 1,369 23,219 16.95×
      powmath
      		 1,641 38,876 23.69×
      trig
      		 1,912 38,769 20.28×
      veccmp
      		 19,826 304,631 15.37×
      vecfp
      		 1,480 29,417 19.88×
      vecmath
      		 3,160 72,470 22.93×
      vecshuf
      		 645.25 11,209 17.37×
      vecwide
      		 30,953 571,770 18.47×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.8 128 16.41×
      bsearch
      		 240.19 5,211 21.69×
      bubblesort
      		 1 12.8 12.80×
      fibsearch
      		 280.02 5,514 19.69×
      heapsort
      		 9 168.19 18.69×
      hsearch
      		 6,916 127,110 18.38×
      insertionsort
      		 10.2 96.2 9.43×
      malloc
      		 2,497,787 24,257,440 9.71×
      mcontend
      		 70.31 5,722 81.38×
      mergesort
      		 26 580.98 22.35×
      qsort
      		 20.2 334.39 16.55×
      skiplist
      		 5,279 123,472 23.39×
      tree
      		 1.4 25.59 18.28×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 270,229 655,011 2.42×
      cachehammer
      		 357,201 8,020,524 22.45×
      cacheline
      		 46.96 3,117 66.38×
      l1cache
      		 270.19 3,923 14.52×
      memcpy
      		 393.81 6,227 15.81×
      memrate
      		 1.77 18.27 10.32×
      memthrash
      		 137.67 1,054 7.66×
      ptr-chase
      		 14,344,464 330,939,393 23.07×
      spinmem
      		 148.99 954.59 6.41×
      stream
      		 29.22 12,620 431.91×
      vm
      		 108,980 297,498 2.73×

      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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