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n4-highcpu-4 by Google Cloud Platform

n4-highcpu-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0273 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3226
(All-cores)
1577
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1750018
Name
n4-highcpu-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM
Family
n4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
20
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-04T11:29:33.959642

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0473 USD/h 0.1531 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0713 USD/h 0.1531 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0831 USD/h 0.1531 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0831 USD/h 0.1531 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0831 USD/h 0.1531 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0353 USD/h 0.1592 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0609 USD/h 0.1592 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0343 USD/h 0.1607 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0485 USD/h 0.1607 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0667 USD/h 0.1607 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0872 USD/h 0.1669 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0525 USD/h 0.1684 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0273 USD/h 0.1686 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0434 USD/h 0.1686 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0547 USD/h 0.1686 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0564 USD/h 0.1686 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0704 USD/h 0.1686 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0897 USD/h 0.1724 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0647 USD/h 0.1745 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0975 USD/h 0.1773 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0433 USD/h 0.1776 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0586 USD/h 0.1776 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0375 USD/h 0.1806 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0505 USD/h 0.1806 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0913 USD/h 0.1806 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0315 USD/h 0.184 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1003 USD/h 0.184 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0819 USD/h 0.1852 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0776 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0901 USD/h 0.1889 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.084 USD/h 0.1914 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0596 USD/h 0.1966 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0947 USD/h 0.1966 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0978 USD/h 0.1966 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0613 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.094 USD/h 0.2005 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0884 USD/h 0.2058 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0308 USD/h 0.2141 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0683 USD/h 0.2189 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0462 USD/h 0.2431 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0475 USD/h 0.2449 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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 budget-friendly, compute-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel processors with advanced matrix extensions for lightweight single-threaded workloads.

      Compute Optimized

      The Google Cloud Platform n4-highcpu-4 is an x86_64 compute-optimized server featuring 4 dedicated Intel vCPUs and 8.0 GB of RAM, providing a 2.0 GB per core memory ratio. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. The processor features a 260 MB L3 cache and supports advanced instruction sets including AVX-512 and Intel AMX. Benchmark data shows average single-core CPU performance and static web serving throughput, but weak multi-core scaling and poor memory bandwidth. This server is a cost-efficient option for lightweight, compute-focused workloads such as single-threaded processing, basic text manipulation, and low-traffic web serving, where high memory capacity and intensive multi-core parallelization are not required.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.384Score
      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) 638,704 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.334 50.00% 50.00% -42.20%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,346,060 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.288 20.00% 20.00% -22.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 900 2,416 0.373 10.00% 10.00% -9.39%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 59,063 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.547 10.00% 10.00% -5.85%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,323 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.983 10.00% 10.00% -0.17%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,840

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,108

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 5902
      Compression
      		 58829
      Encryption
      		 3380
      Extended Instructions
      		 4203
      Floating Point Maths
      		 10828
      Integer Maths
      		 15036
      Physics
      		 767
      Prime Numbers
      		 33
      Single Threaded
      		 2323
      String Sorting
      		 7759

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 900
      Database Operations
      		 1830
      Memory Latency
      		 76
      Memory Read Cached
      		 21294
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6966
      Memory Write
      		 6684

      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
      n4-highcpu-2 24 GiB0
      n4-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n4-highmem-2 216 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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