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
2026-11-02T12:29:21.238617

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
0.1301 USD/h 0.5765 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.1892 USD/h 0.5765 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.3457 USD/h 0.5765 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0519 USD/h 0.5769 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1852 USD/h 0.5769 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.2763 USD/h 0.5769 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.2794 USD/h 0.5769 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1539 USD/h 0.5902 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.3266 USD/h 0.5902 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.2196 USD/h 0.6068 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0723 USD/h 0.6079 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.1536 USD/h 0.6079 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1049 USD/h 0.6184 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.159 USD/h 0.6184 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0623 USD/h 0.6294 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.218 USD/h 0.6294 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.2342 USD/h 0.6295 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.2404 USD/h 0.6295 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.2649 USD/h 0.632 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.2072 USD/h 0.6341 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1311 USD/h 0.6367 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2716 USD/h 0.6465 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1939 USD/h 0.6718 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1759 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.187 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0944 USD/h 0.6752 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1344 USD/h 0.6752 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.3709 USD/h 0.6752 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.1249 USD/h 0.676 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2499 USD/h 0.6865 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.3598 USD/h 0.7046 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1867 USD/h 0.7332 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.3396 USD/h 0.7436 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.1916 USD/h 0.7494 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.2013 USD/h 0.8318 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1386 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
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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 a one-to-eight vCPU-to-RAM ratio for memory-intensive database and caching workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highmem-8 is a memory-optimized server instance featuring 8 vCPUs and 64 GB of RAM, establishing a 1:8 vCPU-to-memory ratio. Powered by an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor running at 2.8 GHz with 4 physical cores and 2 threads per core, it provides dedicated CPU allocation and a 33 MB L3 cache. The instance does not include local storage or GPUs. Benchmark results position the server in the average tier for memory bandwidth, static web serving, and database operations, while multi-core CPU performance and complex tasks like ray tracing and image processing fall into the weaker bottom 25%. This configuration is suitable for memory-bound workloads such as database operations, Redis caching, and static web serving, where high memory capacity is required but extreme compute performance is not.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.47Score
      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 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.38 50.00% 50.00% -38.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,506,574 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.38 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,497 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 58,891 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,988 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,178

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,476

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8,350
      Compression
      		 110,877
      Encryption
      		 3,414
      Extended Instructions
      		 6,444
      Floating Point Maths
      		 13,338
      Integer Maths
      		 24,802
      Physics
      		 882
      Prime Numbers
      		 46
      Single Threaded
      		 1,988
      String Sorting
      		 13,030

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,497
      Database Operations
      		 2,914
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,064
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,083
      Memory Write
      		 10,196

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 278.04 327.61 1.18×
      bitops
      		 125,992 513,050 4.07×
      branch
      		 133,110 834,150 6.27×
      funccall
      		 615.03 2,519 4.10×
      funcret
      		 10,725 61,642 5.75×
      hash
      		 146,481 842,297 5.75×
      intmath
      		 59,326 289,413 4.88×
      nop
      		 183,047 647,510 3.54×
      prime
      		 383,000 1,653,215 4.32×
      rotate
      		 94,746 406,815 4.29×
      str
      		 871,084 3,532,688 4.06×
      wcs
      		 596,108 2,057,258 3.45×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,752 10,142 3.69×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 676.96 3,558 5.26×
      zlib
      		 61.95 316.83 5.11×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 40,747 193,633 4.75×
      clone
      		 339.93 1,146 3.37×
      context
      		 4,606 27,357 5.94×
      cpu-sched
      		 63.56 542.73 8.54×
      eventfd
      		 48,322 673,188 13.93×
      fault
      		 15,619 74,310 4.76×
      fork
      		 4,980 26,297 5.28×
      getrandom
      		 47,766 217,377 4.55×
      hrtimers
      		 965,770 860,618 0.89×
      mprotect
      		 1,124,784 2,087,816 1.86×
      mtx
      		 13,621,014 204,714,229 15.03×
      munmap
      		 3,335 19,186 5.75×
      null
      		 691,098 3,463,525 5.01×
      pipe
      		 813,519 4,966,014 6.10×
      priv-instr
      		 792,399 3,906,379 4.93×
      resched
      		 2,317,868 818,240 0.35×
      switch
      		 69,174 1,848,625 26.72×
      timermix
      		 167,025 1,154,260 6.91×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 11,119 14,690 1.32×
      tsc
      		 744,603 4,381,894 5.88×
      usersyscall
      		 607,006 3,009,761 4.96×
      vdso
      		 88,904,115 447,719,182 5.04×
      vfork
      		 32,842 134,924 4.11×
      x86syscall
      		 7,885,686 42,797,056 5.43×
      yield
      		 6,600,490 6,523,724 0.99×
      zero
      		 4,255,843 18,183,149 4.27×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,377 73,053 5.08×
      expmath
      		 2,802 16,275 5.81×
      fma
      		 619,006 4,284,593 6.92×
      fp
      		 186.19 798.42 4.29×
      fractal
      		 4.8 28.4 5.92×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,980 17,535 5.88×
      logmath
      		 4,706 27,114 5.76×
      matrix
      		 3,389 20,699 6.11×
      matrix-3d
      		 487.32 1,887 3.87×
      monte-carlo
      		 237.45 1,293 5.45×
      mpfr
      		 1,366 5,815 4.26×
      powmath
      		 1,635 9,677 5.92×
      trig
      		 1,905 9,603 5.04×
      veccmp
      		 19,709 74,712 3.79×
      vecfp
      		 1,480 7,298 4.93×
      vecmath
      		 3,128 17,744 5.67×
      vecshuf
      		 643.76 2,752 4.27×
      vecwide
      		 30,661 139,286 4.54×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.8 30.6 3.92×
      bsearch
      		 239.8 1,238 5.16×
      bubblesort
      		 1 3.2 3.20×
      fibsearch
      		 278.95 1,366 4.90×
      heapsort
      		 9 42 4.67×
      hsearch
      		 6,898 31,740 4.60×
      insertionsort
      		 10.2 24 2.35×
      malloc
      		 1,679,858 14,131,375 8.41×
      mcontend
      		 144.32 1,565 10.84×
      mergesort
      		 26 144.6 5.56×
      qsort
      		 19.8 83.8 4.23×
      skiplist
      		 5,270 30,720 5.83×
      tree
      		 1 4.8 4.80×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 246,918 355,805 1.44×
      cachehammer
      		 324,685 2,356,216 7.26×
      cacheline
      		 55.8 467.81 8.38×
      l1cache
      		 271.13 985.34 3.63×
      memcpy
      		 392.53 1,539 3.92×
      memrate
      		 1.38 5.65 4.09×
      memthrash
      		 103.28 318.28 3.08×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,018,151 72,421,576 7.23×
      spinmem
      		 146.19 251.38 1.72×
      stream
      		 48.65 1,602 32.94×
      vm
      		 95,113 291,800 3.07×

      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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