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n4-highcpu-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n4-highcpu-2 is a 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0137 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1737
(All-cores)
1658
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1750017
Name
n4-highcpu-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM
Family
n4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-08T02:01:36.250701

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0237 USD/h 0.0765 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0356 USD/h 0.0765 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0416 USD/h 0.0765 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0416 USD/h 0.0765 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0416 USD/h 0.0765 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0177 USD/h 0.0796 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0305 USD/h 0.0796 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0171 USD/h 0.0804 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0242 USD/h 0.0804 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0334 USD/h 0.0804 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0436 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0263 USD/h 0.0842 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0137 USD/h 0.0843 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0217 USD/h 0.0843 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0274 USD/h 0.0843 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0282 USD/h 0.0843 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0352 USD/h 0.0843 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0448 USD/h 0.0862 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0324 USD/h 0.0873 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0487 USD/h 0.0886 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0216 USD/h 0.0888 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0293 USD/h 0.0888 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0188 USD/h 0.0903 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0253 USD/h 0.0903 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0457 USD/h 0.0903 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0157 USD/h 0.092 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0501 USD/h 0.092 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0409 USD/h 0.0926 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0388 USD/h 0.093 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0451 USD/h 0.0944 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.042 USD/h 0.0957 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0298 USD/h 0.0983 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0474 USD/h 0.0983 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0489 USD/h 0.0983 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0306 USD/h 0.0995 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.047 USD/h 0.1003 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0442 USD/h 0.1029 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0154 USD/h 0.1071 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0341 USD/h 0.1095 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0231 USD/h 0.1215 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0237 USD/h 0.1225 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, smx, est, ssse3, sdbg, fma, cx16, xtpr, pdcm, pcid, dca, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, cat_l3, cat_l2, cdp_l3, cdp_l2, ssbd, mba, 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, cqm_llc, cqm_occup_llc, cqm_mbm_total, cqm_mbm_local, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, tsxldtrk, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 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 dedicated dual-vCPU compute instance with advanced Intel instruction support, optimized for lightweight single-threaded tasks and basic processing workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n4-highcpu-2 is an x86_64 compute-optimized server instance featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs from a single physical Intel core and 4.0 GB of RAM. Lacking bundled local storage and GPU accelerators, this instance relies on its Intel processor, which includes a 260 MB L3 cache and supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX. Benchmark data reveals average single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1836.0, but weak multi-core and memory bandwidth results. The 2.0 GB of RAM per core ratio represents a clear tradeoff, making the instance less suitable for memory-heavy databases or complex multi-threaded tasks. It is best positioned for lightweight, compute-focused workloads, single-threaded applications, basic text processing, and low-traffic web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.213Score
      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) 304,724 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.159 50.00% 50.00% -60.10%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,570,911 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.135 20.00% 20.00% -33.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 830.8 2,416 0.344 10.00% 10.00% -10.10%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 29,757 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.276 10.00% 10.00% -12.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,569 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.09 10.00% 10.00% +0.87%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,836

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,242

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3265
      Compression
      		 32138
      Encryption
      		 1851
      Extended Instructions
      		 2225
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5905
      Integer Maths
      		 8300
      Physics
      		 419
      Prime Numbers
      		 17
      Single Threaded
      		 2569
      String Sorting
      		 4193

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 831
      Database Operations
      		 1006
      Memory Latency
      		 73
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23586
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6996
      Memory Write
      		 6725

      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

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      n4-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n4-highcpu-4 48 GiB0
      n4-standard-4 416 GiB0
      n4-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      n4-highcpu-8 816 GiB0
      n4-standard-8 832 GiB0

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