n4-highmem-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n4-highmem-2 is a 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0167 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,601
(All-cores)
1,555
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1750009
Name
n4-highmem-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
n4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-21T19:01:52.458018

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0363 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0672 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0674 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0674 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0674 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.03 USD/h 0.1238 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0331 USD/h 0.1238 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0264 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0307 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0493 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0473 USD/h 0.1297 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0403 USD/h 0.1309 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0191 USD/h 0.1311 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.026 USD/h 0.1311 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0314 USD/h 0.1311 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0487 USD/h 0.1311 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0572 USD/h 0.1311 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0657 USD/h 0.1341 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0524 USD/h 0.1357 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0524 USD/h 0.1378 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0272 USD/h 0.1381 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.045 USD/h 0.1381 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0274 USD/h 0.1404 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0275 USD/h 0.1404 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0836 USD/h 0.1404 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0307 USD/h 0.1431 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0817 USD/h 0.1431 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0605 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0634 USD/h 0.1446 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0804 USD/h 0.1468 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0686 USD/h 0.1488 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0588 USD/h 0.1528 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0804 USD/h 0.1528 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0875 USD/h 0.1528 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0497 USD/h 0.1547 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0722 USD/h 0.1559 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0464 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0167 USD/h 0.1665 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0429 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0278 USD/h 0.189 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0348 USD/h 0.1904 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
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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

      This low vCPU instance provides high memory density and advanced Intel instruction sets for lightweight workloads that prioritize memory capacity over raw compute power.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      The Google Cloud Platform n4-highmem-2 is an x86_64 server featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs from 1 physical Intel core and 16.0 GB of RAM. This configuration provides a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core, supported by a 260 MB L3 cache and advanced instruction sets like Intel AMX and AVX-512. The instance does not include bundled local storage or GPUs. Performance benchmarks show average single-core execution, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1640.0, but weak multi-core and memory bandwidth results, such as a stress-ng multi-core score of 1600.79. Qualitatively, this server offers a cost-effective entry point for memory-heavy workloads that do not demand high parallel processing power. It is best suited for lightweight memory-intensive applications, single-threaded tasks, basic text processing, and small-scale caching layers.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.216Score
      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) 295,450 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.154 50.00% 50.00% -60.80%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,533,125 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.131 20.00% 20.00% -33.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,381 2,418 0.571 10.00% 10.00% -5.45%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 28,963 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.268 10.00% 10.00% -12.30%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,350 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.994 10.00% 10.00% -0.06%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,640

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,036

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3006
      Compression
      		 29555
      Encryption
      		 1692
      Extended Instructions
      		 2090
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5423
      Integer Maths
      		 7613
      Physics
      		 384
      Prime Numbers
      		 16
      Single Threaded
      		 2350
      String Sorting
      		 3834

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1381
      Database Operations
      		 932
      Memory Latency
      		 75
      Memory Read Cached
      		 21317
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7021
      Memory Write
      		 6672

      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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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      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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