n2-standard-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-standard-2 is a 2 vCPUs 8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0096 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,837
(All-cores)
1,398
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
901002
Name
n2-standard-2
Description
2 vCPUs 8 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T13:42:08.787111

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0583 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0583 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0583 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0583 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0242 USD/h 0.1068 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0303 USD/h 0.1068 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0641 USD/h 0.1068 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0096 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0297 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.049 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0519 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0273 USD/h 0.1094 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0607 USD/h 0.1094 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0389 USD/h 0.1125 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0111 USD/h 0.1127 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0315 USD/h 0.1127 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0215 USD/h 0.1146 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0296 USD/h 0.1146 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0105 USD/h 0.1166 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0405 USD/h 0.1166 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0394 USD/h 0.1167 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0446 USD/h 0.1167 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0544 USD/h 0.1171 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0385 USD/h 0.1175 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0233 USD/h 0.118 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0456 USD/h 0.1198 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0361 USD/h 0.1246 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0347 USD/h 0.1247 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0361 USD/h 0.1247 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0175 USD/h 0.1251 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.025 USD/h 0.1251 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0689 USD/h 0.1251 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0232 USD/h 0.1253 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0464 USD/h 0.1272 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0739 USD/h 0.1306 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0383 USD/h 0.1359 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0631 USD/h 0.1378 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0356 USD/h 0.1389 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0374 USD/h 0.1542 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0257 USD/h 0.1554 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 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, vmx, 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, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, 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, vnmi, avx512_vnni, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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 dual-vCPU x86_64 instance with dedicated Intel Xeon compute power and balanced system memory for entry-level workloads and utility microservices.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-standard-2 is a general-purpose x86_64 virtual machine featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs on a single physical Intel Xeon core running at 2.8 GHz, paired with 8.0 GB of RAM. The architecture includes 33 MB of L3 cache alongside hardware support for AVX-512 and AES instructions. With no bundled GPU accelerators or local storage drives, the instance relies on network-attached storage. Synthetic benchmarks indicate entry-level compute capabilities, recording a stress-ng multi-core score of 1837.38 and a PassMark CPU score of 2180.22. Memory bandwidth measures 13.8 GB/sec for large uncached reads. The server handles specialized single-threaded tasks well, delivering 23.81 GB/sec in gzip compression, alongside 1.72 million Redis SET operations per second. Given its standard 1:4 core-to-memory balance and dedicated CPU execution, n2-standard-2 is appropriate for lightweight web applications, microservices, staging environments, and basic administrative tooling.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.14Score
      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) 177,065 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.095 50.00% 50.00% -69.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,112,116 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.092 20.00% 20.00% -38.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 980 2,416 0.41 10.00% 10.00% -8.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 17,194 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.15 10.00% 10.00% -17.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,934 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,123

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,333

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2,180
      Compression
      		 27,345
      Encryption
      		 848
      Extended Instructions
      		 1,522
      Floating Point Maths
      		 3,307
      Integer Maths
      		 6,163
      Physics
      		 276
      Prime Numbers
      		 13
      Single Threaded
      		 1,934
      String Sorting
      		 3,240

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 981
      Database Operations
      		 731
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,879
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,725
      Memory Write
      		 9,839

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 746.95 759.37 1.02×
      bitops
      		 107,218 123,072 1.15×
      branch
      		 152,973 231,184 1.51×
      funccall
      		 536.58 556.45 1.04×
      funcret
      		 11,212 15,942 1.42×
      hash
      		 124,768 179,275 1.44×
      intmath
      		 22,010 33,552 1.52×
      nop
      		 189,148 164,255 0.87×
      prime
      		 311,853 349,235 1.12×
      rotate
      		 96,091 131,776 1.37×
      str
      		 724,652 793,574 1.10×
      wcs
      		 479,526 508,284 1.06×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,411 2,358 0.98×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 585.6 677.29 1.16×
      zlib
      		 62.69 72.46 1.16×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 30,045 35,806 1.19×
      clone
      		 273.85 279.09 1.02×
      context
      		 2,546 3,037 1.19×
      cpu-sched
      		 72.37 130.91 1.81×
      eventfd
      		 35,626 114,650 3.22×
      fault
      		 10,328 14,164 1.37×
      fork
      		 3,578 6,535 1.83×
      getrandom
      		 44,344 53,851 1.21×
      hrtimers
      		 138,593 218,732 1.58×
      mprotect
      		 332,783 334,088 1.00×
      mtx
      		 6,721,182 62,577,598 9.31×
      munmap
      		 2,585 3,907 1.51×
      null
      		 289,233 302,916 1.05×
      pipe
      		 1,103,318 729,280 0.66×
      priv-instr
      		 548,340 637,512 1.16×
      resched
      		 219,640 151,523 0.69×
      switch
      		 81,337 339,264 4.17×
      timermix
      		 183,072 260,983 1.43×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 4,704 5,284 1.12×
      tsc
      		 991,472 1,371,166 1.38×
      usersyscall
      		 383,852 431,130 1.12×
      vdso
      		 82,368,513 115,175,688 1.40×
      vfork
      		 23,390 36,967 1.58×
      x86syscall
      		 3,291,444 3,455,347 1.05×
      yield
      		 1,116,405 1,125,885 1.01×
      zero
      		 2,000,276 2,177,679 1.09×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 15,886 18,796 1.18×
      expmath
      		 2,652 4,050 1.53×
      fma
      		 545,480 875,643 1.61×
      fp
      		 128.73 148.64 1.15×
      fractal
      		 4.8 7.2 1.50×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,764 4,308 1.56×
      logmath
      		 4,501 6,602 1.47×
      matrix
      		 2,983 4,721 1.58×
      matrix-3d
      		 486.64 497.26 1.02×
      monte-carlo
      		 139.21 160.57 1.15×
      mpfr
      		 1,196 1,284 1.07×
      powmath
      		 1,570 2,395 1.53×
      trig
      		 1,693 2,244 1.33×
      veccmp
      		 15,297 16,103 1.05×
      vecfp
      		 1,293 1,649 1.27×
      vecmath
      		 2,171 3,415 1.57×
      vecshuf
      		 558.87 599.24 1.07×
      vecwide
      		 23,666 25,453 1.08×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.2 8.4 1.17×
      bsearch
      		 237.5 270.12 1.14×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 0.8 1.00×
      fibsearch
      		 241.34 270.8 1.12×
      heapsort
      		 8.6 10.4 1.21×
      hsearch
      		 4,945 6,203 1.25×
      insertionsort
      		 8 8 1.00×
      malloc
      		 1,532,319 2,883,484 1.88×
      mcontend
      		 567.58 565.23 1.00×
      mergesort
      		 23 30.8 1.34×
      qsort
      		 14.6 16.8 1.15×
      skiplist
      		 4,851 6,783 1.40×
      tree
      		 1 1.2 1.20×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 293,154 295,334 1.01×
      cachehammer
      		 369,820 682,860 1.85×
      cacheline
      		 19.08 39.29 2.06×
      l1cache
      		 224.68 244.42 1.09×
      memcpy
      		 343.56 369.33 1.08×
      memrate
      		 1.17 1.53 1.31×
      memthrash
      		 56.44 73.02 1.29×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,719,410 19,401,187 1.81×
      spinmem
      		 170.99 0.4 0.00×
      stream
      		 29.91 71.52 2.39×
      vm
      		 55,432 58,968 1.06×

      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-highcpu-8 88 GiB0
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