n2-highmem-4 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-highmem-4 is a 4 vCPUs 32 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.026 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,681
(All-cores)
1,404
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
902004
Name
n2-highmem-4
Description
4 vCPUs 32 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
30
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T22:30:03.759926

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1572 USD/h 0.262 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1572 USD/h 0.262 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1572 USD/h 0.262 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1572 USD/h 0.262 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0652 USD/h 0.2882 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0819 USD/h 0.2882 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.1729 USD/h 0.2882 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.026 USD/h 0.2885 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0802 USD/h 0.2885 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1322 USD/h 0.2885 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1401 USD/h 0.2885 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0736 USD/h 0.2951 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1637 USD/h 0.2951 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1051 USD/h 0.3034 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0299 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0851 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0581 USD/h 0.3092 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0798 USD/h 0.3092 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0283 USD/h 0.3147 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1062 USD/h 0.3147 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1092 USD/h 0.3147 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1205 USD/h 0.3147 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1468 USD/h 0.316 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1038 USD/h 0.3171 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0628 USD/h 0.3184 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1232 USD/h 0.3232 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0972 USD/h 0.3359 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0937 USD/h 0.3365 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0975 USD/h 0.3365 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0473 USD/h 0.3376 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0674 USD/h 0.3376 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.186 USD/h 0.3376 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0626 USD/h 0.338 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1252 USD/h 0.3433 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.1993 USD/h 0.3523 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1034 USD/h 0.3666 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1702 USD/h 0.3718 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.096 USD/h 0.3747 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1009 USD/h 0.4159 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0695 USD/h 0.4192 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
2.6
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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 virtual machine offering four virtual CPUs and thirty-two gigabytes of RAM for memory-dependent enterprise applications.

      Memory Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highmem-4 is a memory-optimized virtual machine instance within the N2 family featuring 4 dedicated x86_64 vCPUs across 2 physical Intel Xeon cores at 2.8 GHz and 32.0 GB of memory. Cache specifications include 33 MB of L3 cache, with hardware instruction support including AVX-512 and AES. The instance contains no integrated GPU accelerators or local NVMe storage. Benchmark metrics position compute throughput in the lower tier, with a PassMark CPU score of 4320.42 and stress-ng multi-core performance of 3680.85. Memory benchmarks display steady average performance, recording a PassMark memory score of 2173.39 and 26.28 GB/sec uncached read bandwidth. Offering 8.0 GB of memory per vCPU, the hardware profile prioritizes memory density over multi-threaded processing power. This configuration provides qualitative resource efficiency for memory-intensive applications, small-to-medium in-memory caches like Redis, and backend application servers requiring high RAM allocations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.26Score
      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) 358,109 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.19 50.00% 50.00% -56.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,198,327 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.18 20.00% 20.00% -29.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,173 2,416 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 29,995 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.27 10.00% 10.00% -12.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,979 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,135

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,492

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 4,320
      Compression
      		 55,698
      Encryption
      		 1,702
      Extended Instructions
      		 3,147
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6,641
      Integer Maths
      		 12,357
      Physics
      		 507
      Prime Numbers
      		 25
      Single Threaded
      		 1,979
      String Sorting
      		 6,580

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,173
      Database Operations
      		 1,442
      Memory Latency
      		 52
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,873
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,482
      Memory Write
      		 9,736

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 262.26 281.16 1.07×
      bitops
      		 107,039 243,844 2.28×
      branch
      		 152,585 454,729 2.98×
      funccall
      		 539.96 1,101 2.04×
      funcret
      		 11,144 31,542 2.83×
      hash
      		 125,066 350,139 2.80×
      intmath
      		 22,069 64,476 2.92×
      nop
      		 190,119 326,507 1.72×
      prime
      		 313,108 688,495 2.20×
      rotate
      		 96,253 263,149 2.73×
      str
      		 715,962 1,598,605 2.23×
      wcs
      		 478,686 993,650 2.08×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,423 4,684 1.93×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 584.98 1,405 2.40×
      zlib
      		 59.33 153.37 2.59×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 29,895 65,437 2.19×
      clone
      		 309.64 557.93 1.80×
      context
      		 2,549 5,936 2.33×
      cpu-sched
      		 65.92 241.09 3.66×
      eventfd
      		 43,447 210,684 4.85×
      fault
      		 10,553 26,273 2.49×
      fork
      		 3,587 11,247 3.14×
      getrandom
      		 44,491 106,580 2.40×
      hrtimers
      		 275,000 352,304 1.28×
      mprotect
      		 567,309 610,261 1.08×
      mtx
      		 9,879,826 123,215,656 12.47×
      munmap
      		 2,496 7,073 2.83×
      null
      		 289,459 587,845 2.03×
      pipe
      		 829,573 1,415,683 1.71×
      priv-instr
      		 548,973 1,228,828 2.24×
      resched
      		 603,989 341,370 0.57×
      switch
      		 77,096 650,071 8.43×
      timermix
      		 182,968 522,254 2.85×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,494 9,026 1.20×
      tsc
      		 992,209 2,739,638 2.76×
      usersyscall
      		 384,157 834,493 2.17×
      vdso
      		 82,343,793 232,891,988 2.83×
      vfork
      		 24,846 60,925 2.45×
      x86syscall
      		 3,314,752 6,761,447 2.04×
      yield
      		 2,140,264 2,390,755 1.12×
      zero
      		 2,006,877 4,201,063 2.09×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 15,853 36,523 2.30×
      expmath
      		 2,671 8,042 3.01×
      fma
      		 545,554 1,750,401 3.21×
      fp
      		 122.4 303.05 2.48×
      fractal
      		 4.8 14.4 3.00×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,774 8,582 3.09×
      logmath
      		 4,501 13,140 2.92×
      matrix
      		 2,995 9,432 3.15×
      matrix-3d
      		 464.19 939.9 2.02×
      monte-carlo
      		 139.29 301.59 2.17×
      mpfr
      		 1,195 2,518 2.11×
      powmath
      		 1,576 4,762 3.02×
      trig
      		 1,693 4,448 2.63×
      veccmp
      		 15,320 32,051 2.09×
      vecfp
      		 1,290 3,215 2.49×
      vecmath
      		 2,175 6,746 3.10×
      vecshuf
      		 559.36 1,191 2.13×
      vecwide
      		 23,362 50,047 2.14×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.2 16.6 2.31×
      bsearch
      		 237.91 541.02 2.27×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 1.6 2.00×
      fibsearch
      		 242.18 547.21 2.26×
      heapsort
      		 8.6 20.6 2.40×
      hsearch
      		 4,838 12,160 2.51×
      insertionsort
      		 8.2 16 1.95×
      malloc
      		 1,630,250 6,440,160 3.95×
      mcontend
      		 222.96 913.29 4.10×
      mergesort
      		 23 61.2 2.66×
      qsort
      		 14.6 34 2.33×
      skiplist
      		 4,847 13,584 2.80×
      tree
      		 1 2.4 2.40×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 270,030 359,685 1.33×
      cachehammer
      		 364,246 1,312,435 3.60×
      cacheline
      		 25.66 109.91 4.28×
      l1cache
      		 225.75 484.83 2.15×
      memcpy
      		 343.26 733.1 2.14×
      memrate
      		 1.17 3.06 2.62×
      memthrash
      		 53.01 151.81 2.86×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,865,041 40,002,737 3.68×
      spinmem
      		 210.79 176.19 0.84×
      stream
      		 29.85 288 9.65×
      vm
      		 57,217 232,786 4.07×

      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

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