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
2026-09-14T22:27:10.782498

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
1.1302 USD/h 2.3058 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.6106 USD/h 2.306 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.6278 USD/h 2.306 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.2077 USD/h 2.3076 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.6783 USD/h 2.3076 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.9662 USD/h 2.3076 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
1.073 USD/h 2.3078 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.5633 USD/h 2.3607 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
1.1969 USD/h 2.3607 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.9387 USD/h 2.4272 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.2525 USD/h 2.4316 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.7958 USD/h 2.4316 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.4919 USD/h 2.4735 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.6106 USD/h 2.4735 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.2267 USD/h 2.5176 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.8362 USD/h 2.5176 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.8138 USD/h 2.5178 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.8812 USD/h 2.5178 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
1.1316 USD/h 2.528 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.8387 USD/h 2.5365 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.5604 USD/h 2.5469 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
1.0422 USD/h 2.5858 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.7777 USD/h 2.687 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.7934 USD/h 2.6919 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
1.0079 USD/h 2.6919 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.5154 USD/h 2.7006 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
1.3587 USD/h 2.7006 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.3647 USD/h 2.7007 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.4795 USD/h 2.7041 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
1.0603 USD/h 2.7461 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
1.5261 USD/h 2.8185 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.9676 USD/h 2.933 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
1.3034 USD/h 2.9742 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.8124 USD/h 2.9976 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.7373 USD/h 3.3274 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.5307 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
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 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 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

      1.29Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.46 50.00% 50.00% +20.80%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 16,251,080 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.39 20.00% 20.00% +6.81%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,751 2,418 1.14 10.00% 10.00% +1.32%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 109,255 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 1.01 10.00% 10.00% +0.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,991 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.842 10.00% 10.00% -1.71%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,196

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 10,454

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 28170
      Compression
      		 439983
      Encryption
      		 13715
      Extended Instructions
      		 26199
      Floating Point Maths
      		 53445
      Integer Maths
      		 99452
      Physics
      		 3091
      Prime Numbers
      		 152
      Single Threaded
      		 1991
      String Sorting
      		 51445

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2751
      Database Operations
      		 11561
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24230
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10908
      Memory Write
      		 10420

      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-4 432 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-8 88 GiB0

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