n2-highmem-8 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-highmem-8 is a 8 vCPUs 64 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0519 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7,393
(All-cores)
1,406
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
902008
Name
n2-highmem-8
Description
8 vCPUs 64 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21.67
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-18T07:21:47.445565

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.3144 USD/h 0.5241 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.3144 USD/h 0.5241 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.3144 USD/h 0.5241 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.3144 USD/h 0.5241 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1527 USD/h 0.5765 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.157 USD/h 0.5765 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.2826 USD/h 0.5765 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0519 USD/h 0.5769 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1696 USD/h 0.5769 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.2416 USD/h 0.5769 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.2683 USD/h 0.5769 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1408 USD/h 0.5902 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.2992 USD/h 0.5902 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.2347 USD/h 0.6068 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0631 USD/h 0.6079 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.199 USD/h 0.6079 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.123 USD/h 0.6184 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.1527 USD/h 0.6184 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0567 USD/h 0.6294 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.209 USD/h 0.6294 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.2034 USD/h 0.6295 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.2203 USD/h 0.6295 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.2829 USD/h 0.632 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.2097 USD/h 0.6341 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1401 USD/h 0.6367 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2605 USD/h 0.6465 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1944 USD/h 0.6718 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1984 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.252 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0912 USD/h 0.6752 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1288 USD/h 0.6752 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.3397 USD/h 0.6752 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.1199 USD/h 0.676 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2651 USD/h 0.6865 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.3815 USD/h 0.7046 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.2419 USD/h 0.7332 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.3259 USD/h 0.7436 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.2031 USD/h 0.7494 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1843 USD/h 0.8318 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1327 USD/h 0.8385 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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
5.3
Scalability
132.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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

      An x86_64 memory-optimized configuration featuring high memory density per core, designed for database operations and caching workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highmem-8 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 8 vCPUs and 64.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.8 GHz. It utilizes 4 physical cores with hyper-threading and dedicated CPU allocation, but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Benchmark data indicates average performance across memory bandwidth, database operations, and static web serving throughput. However, it exhibits weaker performance in multi-core scaling, ray tracing, and LLM inference, where prompt processing for a 7B model falls into the bottom 10%. Qualitatively, this instance provides high memory density relative to its compute resources, making it a cost-efficient choice for memory-bound workloads such as database hosting, Redis caching, and web serving, while being less suited for intensive parallel computing or machine learning tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.473Score
      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) 732,075 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.381 50.00% 50.00% -38.30%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,506,574 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.384 20.00% 20.00% -17.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,497 2,418 1.03 10.00% 10.00% +0.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 58,891 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.544 10.00% 10.00% -5.91%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,988 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.841 10.00% 10.00% -1.72%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,178

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,476

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8350
      Compression
      		 110877
      Encryption
      		 3414
      Extended Instructions
      		 6444
      Floating Point Maths
      		 13338
      Integer Maths
      		 24802
      Physics
      		 882
      Prime Numbers
      		 46
      Single Threaded
      		 1988
      String Sorting
      		 13030

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2497
      Database Operations
      		 2914
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24064
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11083
      Memory Write
      		 10196

      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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      n2-highmem-4 432 GiB0
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