n2-standard-8 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-standard-8 is a 8 vCPUs 32 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.042 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7,398
(All-cores)
1,404
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
901008
Name
n2-standard-8
Description
8 vCPUs 32 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-02T11:01:42.337547Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.233 USD/h 0.3885 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.233 USD/h 0.3885 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.233 USD/h 0.3885 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.2331 USD/h 0.3885 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1021 USD/h 0.4273 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.116 USD/h 0.4273 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.2419 USD/h 0.4273 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0423 USD/h 0.4277 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1134 USD/h 0.4277 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1872 USD/h 0.4277 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1983 USD/h 0.4277 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1152 USD/h 0.4375 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.2561 USD/h 0.4375 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.157 USD/h 0.4498 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0467 USD/h 0.4506 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.1331 USD/h 0.4506 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0823 USD/h 0.4584 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.1129 USD/h 0.4584 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.042 USD/h 0.4666 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1546 USD/h 0.4666 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1628 USD/h 0.4666 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1662 USD/h 0.4666 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.2538 USD/h 0.4685 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.155 USD/h 0.4701 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0937 USD/h 0.472 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1743 USD/h 0.4792 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1442 USD/h 0.4984 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1327 USD/h 0.4989 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1686 USD/h 0.4989 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0707 USD/h 0.5005 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1053 USD/h 0.5005 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.2632 USD/h 0.5005 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0886 USD/h 0.5011 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1773 USD/h 0.5089 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.2821 USD/h 0.5224 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1788 USD/h 0.5435 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.2409 USD/h 0.5512 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.136 USD/h 0.5555 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1429 USD/h 0.6166 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0981 USD/h 0.6216 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
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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

      Server Description

      A balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and a standard one-to-four virtual CPU to memory ratio.

      General Purpose

      The Google Cloud Platform n2-standard-8 is an x86_64 general-purpose server instance configured with 8 dedicated vCPUs and 32.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon processor operating at 2.8 GHz, it features 4 physical cores with hyper-threading, a 33 MB L3 cache, and supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512. This instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Benchmark results indicate average performance across multi-core processing, memory bandwidth, and database operations, though single-core and highly parallelized rendering tasks perform in the lower tier. With a balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-memory ratio, the n2-standard-8 provides a predictable, cost-efficient resource profile for standard enterprise workloads. It is best suited for static web serving, Redis caching, software compilation, and general-purpose database applications.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.45Score
      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) 706,280 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.37 50.00% 50.00% -39.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,345,359 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.36 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,329 2,418 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 52,775 MB/sec 108,322 MB/sec 0.48 10.00% 10.00% -7.10%
      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: 1,170

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,464

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8292
      Compression
      		 111319
      Encryption
      		 3413
      Extended Instructions
      		 6398
      Floating Point Maths
      		 13326
      Integer Maths
      		 24807
      Physics
      		 860
      Prime Numbers
      		 41
      Single Threaded
      		 1979
      String Sorting
      		 13035

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2329
      Database Operations
      		 2839
      Memory Latency
      		 54
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24245
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9992
      Memory Write
      		 9713

      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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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      n2-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n2-standard-4 416 GiB0
      n2-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-8 88 GiB0

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