n2-standard-96 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-standard-96 is a 96 vCPUs 384 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4618 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
90,577
(All-cores)
1,845
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
901096
Name
n2-standard-96
Description
96 vCPUs 384 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
55.33
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-21T13:11:47.824311

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
2.7963 USD/h 4.6617 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
2.7963 USD/h 4.6617 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
2.7963 USD/h 4.6617 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
2.7972 USD/h 4.6617 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
2.7644 USD/h 5.1278 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
1.29 USD/h 5.128 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
1.4655 USD/h 5.128 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.4618 USD/h 5.132 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
1.4331 USD/h 5.132 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
2.3637 USD/h 5.132 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
2.5054 USD/h 5.1324 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
2.7946 USD/h 5.25 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
1.3162 USD/h 5.2501 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
1.9826 USD/h 5.3977 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.5898 USD/h 5.4075 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
1.681 USD/h 5.4075 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
1.0393 USD/h 5.5008 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
1.426 USD/h 5.5008 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.5042 USD/h 5.5989 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
1.7668 USD/h 5.5989 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
1.8996 USD/h 5.5993 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
2.0567 USD/h 5.5993 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
2.7684 USD/h 5.6221 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
1.7716 USD/h 5.6408 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
1.1841 USD/h 5.6639 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
2.2017 USD/h 5.7507 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
1.7305 USD/h 5.9802 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
1.6764 USD/h 5.9865 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
2.1299 USD/h 5.9865 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
1.2035 USD/h 6.006 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
2.871 USD/h 6.006 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.8928 USD/h 6.0061 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
1.1197 USD/h 6.0135 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
2.2401 USD/h 6.1068 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
3.2241 USD/h 6.2682 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
2.2595 USD/h 6.5225 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
2.754 USD/h 6.6144 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
1.7171 USD/h 6.6662 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
1.5581 USD/h 7.3997 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
1.1209 USD/h 7.4587 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
60 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
54 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
108 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, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, fsrm, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
49.1
Scalability
102.29

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
384 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
384 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

      A high-core general-purpose instance delivering strong multi-threaded performance and high memory bandwidth for demanding enterprise workloads.

      General PurposeCompute Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform n2-standard-96 is a general-purpose server featuring 96 vCPUs and 384.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor running at 2.6 GHz. It contains 48 physical cores with hyperthreading and a 54 MB L3 cache, but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Benchmarks show strong multi-core CPU performance, high memory bandwidth, and excellent throughput for database operations, Redis, and static web serving. Conversely, single-core performance is average, and large-scale LLM inference is limited. This instance is highly efficient for parallelized workloads, software compilation, and high-throughput web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      3.75Score
      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) 11,171,057 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 5.82 50.00% 50.00% +141.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 55,476,735 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 4.73 20.00% 20.00% +36.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,781 2,418 1.15 10.00% 10.00% +1.41%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 344,540 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 3.18 10.00% 10.00% +12.30%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,357 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.997 10.00% 10.00% -0.03%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,575

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 17,076

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 74315
      Compression
      		 1382520
      Encryption
      		 83687
      Extended Instructions
      		 79597
      Floating Point Maths
      		 200599
      Integer Maths
      		 392057
      Physics
      		 8291
      Prime Numbers
      		 487
      Single Threaded
      		 2357
      String Sorting
      		 191488

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2781
      Database Operations
      		 31037
      Memory Latency
      		 54
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23469
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11785
      Memory Write
      		 11211

      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-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-8 88 GiB0

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