n4-highcpu-8 by Google Cloud Platform

n4-highcpu-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0387 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7,218
(All-cores)
1,672
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1750019
Name
n4-highcpu-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
n4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-23T15:34:28.379446

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1029 USD/h 0.3062 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1636 USD/h 0.3062 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1725 USD/h 0.3062 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1725 USD/h 0.3062 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1725 USD/h 0.3062 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0693 USD/h 0.3184 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0976 USD/h 0.3184 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0611 USD/h 0.3215 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0744 USD/h 0.3215 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.1268 USD/h 0.3215 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0992 USD/h 0.3337 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0978 USD/h 0.3368 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0442 USD/h 0.3371 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0602 USD/h 0.3371 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0809 USD/h 0.3371 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1245 USD/h 0.3371 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1472 USD/h 0.3371 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1594 USD/h 0.3448 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1341 USD/h 0.349 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1348 USD/h 0.3545 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0629 USD/h 0.3551 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.1273 USD/h 0.3551 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0665 USD/h 0.3613 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0704 USD/h 0.3613 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.2152 USD/h 0.3613 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0785 USD/h 0.368 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.2091 USD/h 0.368 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1556 USD/h 0.3705 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1711 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2265 USD/h 0.3777 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1853 USD/h 0.3827 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1427 USD/h 0.3932 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.2058 USD/h 0.3932 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2241 USD/h 0.3932 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1271 USD/h 0.398 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2043 USD/h 0.4011 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.1194 USD/h 0.4117 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0387 USD/h 0.4283 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0899 USD/h 0.4378 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0711 USD/h 0.4862 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.089 USD/h 0.4899 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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
4.3
Scalability
53.75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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

      Compute-focused virtual server with 8 dedicated Intel vCPUs, 16 GB memory, and matrix extension support for CPU-intensive build and serving workloads.

      Compute Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform n4-highcpu-8 is a compute-optimized virtual server featuring 8 dedicated x86_64 Intel vCPUs across 4 physical cores and 16.0 GB of RAM. The architecture delivers 2.0 GB of memory per vCPU alongside 260 MB of L3 cache and support for Intel AMX and AVX-512 instruction sets. Benchmark evaluations place CPU performance in average tiers, yielding a Geekbench multi-core score of 7215.0 and PassMark CPU score of 12045.57. Memory testing reveals reduced bandwidth under heavy uncached loads, scoring in lower percentiles for PassMark memory. Storage is not bundled locally, and no GPU hardware is attached. The compute-dense architecture offers cost-effective execution for CPU-bound tasks that do not require high memory footprints. It is well suited for software compilation, CI/CD build environments, web serving, and small-scale machine learning inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.67Score
      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) 1,192,786 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.63 50.00% 50.00% -21.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 5,849,942 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.48 20.00% 20.00% -14.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,718 2,416 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 119,294 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,536 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,877

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 7,215

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 12,046
      Compression
      		 121,079
      Encryption
      		 7,015
      Extended Instructions
      		 9,025
      Floating Point Maths
      		 23,025
      Integer Maths
      		 32,058
      Physics
      		 1,575
      Prime Numbers
      		 67
      Single Threaded
      		 2,536
      String Sorting
      		 16,786

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,718
      Database Operations
      		 3,783
      Memory Latency
      		 75
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,901
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7,326
      Memory Write
      		 6,985

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 211.19 187.47 0.89×
      bitops
      		 119,820 578,901 4.83×
      branch
      		 112,025 696,313 6.22×
      funccall
      		 603.61 3,113 5.16×
      funcret
      		 10,044 63,529 6.33×
      hash
      		 143,293 835,317 5.83×
      intmath
      		 51,828 258,677 4.99×
      nop
      		 214,747 707,593 3.30×
      prime
      		 386,400 1,873,738 4.85×
      rotate
      		 80,158 350,284 4.37×
      str
      		 732,933 4,539,465 6.19×
      wcs
      		 547,953 2,818,040 5.14×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,733 12,634 4.62×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 657.99 3,612 5.49×
      zlib
      		 33.88 320.56 9.46×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 43,846 204,887 4.67×
      clone
      		 518.04 1,632 3.15×
      context
      		 4,151 27,662 6.66×
      cpu-sched
      		 67.64 510.3 7.54×
      eventfd
      		 54,566 840,369 15.40×
      fault
      		 21,098 97,862 4.64×
      fork
      		 4,830 30,508 6.32×
      getrandom
      		 47,178 275,170 5.83×
      hrtimers
      		 168,857 939,328 5.56×
      mprotect
      		 953,366 2,226,338 2.34×
      mtx
      		 11,761,808 224,186,736 19.06×
      munmap
      		 2,684 21,207 7.90×
      null
      		 719,789 4,494,161 6.24×
      pipe
      		 607,605 5,554,476 9.14×
      priv-instr
      		 674,964 3,633,299 5.38×
      resched
      		 2,677,597 937,262 0.35×
      switch
      		 78,941 2,126,612 26.94×
      timermix
      		 192,354 1,286,318 6.69×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 10,301 17,021 1.65×
      tsc
      		 468,449 3,130,696 6.68×
      usersyscall
      		 572,102 3,191,509 5.58×
      vdso
      		 72,628,403 449,655,487 6.19×
      vfork
      		 33,569 152,993 4.56×
      x86syscall
      		 8,063,976 54,198,956 6.72×
      yield
      		 6,896,828 7,073,711 1.03×
      zero
      		 5,126,910 33,675,547 6.57×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,036 67,868 5.21×
      expmath
      		 2,847 16,570 5.82×
      fma
      		 1,055,647 5,518,187 5.23×
      fp
      		 156 996.91 6.39×
      fractal
      		 5.2 30.2 5.81×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,276 18,929 5.78×
      logmath
      		 4,159 26,311 6.33×
      matrix
      		 4,002 18,685 4.67×
      matrix-3d
      		 687.82 2,908 4.23×
      monte-carlo
      		 236.49 1,547 6.54×
      mpfr
      		 1,407 6,594 4.69×
      powmath
      		 1,575 9,571 6.08×
      trig
      		 2,150 11,338 5.27×
      veccmp
      		 20,131 93,366 4.64×
      vecfp
      		 1,240 6,252 5.04×
      vecmath
      		 3,161 17,805 5.63×
      vecshuf
      		 667.06 3,056 4.58×
      vecwide
      		 27,911 136,240 4.88×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.2 33.6 4.67×
      bsearch
      		 229.69 1,268 5.52×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 3.2 4.00×
      fibsearch
      		 254.74 1,324 5.20×
      heapsort
      		 8.2 44.8 5.46×
      hsearch
      		 6,605 32,594 4.94×
      insertionsort
      		 10.2 37 3.63×
      malloc
      		 1,889,103 15,939,622 8.44×
      mcontend
      		 111.13 1,286 11.57×
      mergesort
      		 24.6 141.2 5.74×
      qsort
      		 17.6 98.8 5.61×
      skiplist
      		 4,394 27,608 6.28×
      tree
      		 1.4 7.8 5.57×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 221,103 670,471 3.03×
      cachehammer
      		 157,803 429,720 2.72×
      cacheline
      		 59.32 435.13 7.34×
      l1cache
      		 889.88 1,367 1.54×
      memcpy
      		 358.83 1,415 3.94×
      memrate
      		 0.17 0.99 5.82×
      memthrash
      		 147.7 331.86 2.25×
      ptr-chase
      		 19,946,197 134,799,585 6.76×
      spinmem
      		 201.19 320.37 1.59×
      stream
      		 4.87 196.64 40.38×
      vm
      		 77,832 292,223 3.75×

      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

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