n4-highmem-32 by Google Cloud Platform

n4-highmem-32 is a 32 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2812 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
25,675
(All-cores)
1,566
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1750013
Name
n4-highmem-32
Description
32 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM
Family
n4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
20
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-20T02:37:17.824701

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.6118 USD/h 1.9043 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
1.1311 USD/h 1.9043 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
1.1345 USD/h 1.9043 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
1.1345 USD/h 1.9043 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
1.1345 USD/h 1.9043 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.5053 USD/h 1.9805 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.5571 USD/h 1.9805 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.4676 USD/h 1.9995 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.7887 USD/h 1.9995 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.4438 USD/h 1.9996 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.7973 USD/h 2.0757 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.6787 USD/h 2.0948 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.3212 USD/h 2.0968 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.4381 USD/h 2.0968 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.503 USD/h 2.0968 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.8196 USD/h 2.0968 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.9642 USD/h 2.0968 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
1.0017 USD/h 2.1448 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.799 USD/h 2.1709 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.8382 USD/h 2.205 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.4581 USD/h 2.209 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.7578 USD/h 2.209 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.4616 USD/h 2.2471 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.4633 USD/h 2.2471 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
1.3384 USD/h 2.2471 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.4463 USD/h 2.2892 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
1.3066 USD/h 2.2892 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.9675 USD/h 2.3042 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
1.0138 USD/h 2.3137 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
1.2857 USD/h 2.3494 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
1.0979 USD/h 2.3804 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.8965 USD/h 2.4455 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
1.2249 USD/h 2.4455 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
1.3341 USD/h 2.4455 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.7569 USD/h 2.4756 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
1.2166 USD/h 2.4947 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.7424 USD/h 2.5607 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.2812 USD/h 2.664 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.7226 USD/h 2.7232 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.4676 USD/h 3.0239 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.586 USD/h 3.0469 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 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
16.4
Scalability
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 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

      An x86_64 memory-optimized instance featuring 256 GB RAM, dedicated Intel cores, and strong memory bandwidth for memory-intensive workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n4-highmem-32 is an x86_64 memory-optimized instance featuring 32 vCPUs, 16 physical Intel cores, and 256 GB of RAM. Lacking local storage and GPU accelerators, this instance relies on dedicated CPU allocation and a 260 MB L3 cache. It supports Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512. Benchmark results show strong memory bandwidth, with large-block reads at 208.51 GB/sec and writes at 99.59 GB/sec, alongside high static web serving throughput of 44.59 GB/sec. Other metrics, including Geekbench and Passmark scores, align with average tier performance. This profile makes the instance a qualitatively cost-effective option for memory-bound workloads such as database operations, caching layers, and enterprise application hosting.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      2Score
      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) 4,750,813 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 2.47 50.00% 50.00% +57.20%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 24,756,314 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 2.11 20.00% 20.00% +16.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,038 2,418 0.843 10.00% 10.00% -1.69%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 310,480 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 2.87 10.00% 10.00% +11.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,427 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.03 10.00% 10.00% +0.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,880

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 15,821

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 38514
      Compression
      		 456055
      Encryption
      		 27360
      Extended Instructions
      		 34821
      Floating Point Maths
      		 87377
      Integer Maths
      		 122717
      Physics
      		 6050
      Prime Numbers
      		 263
      Single Threaded
      		 2427
      String Sorting
      		 63050

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2038
      Database Operations
      		 15420
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 21745
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7577
      Memory Write
      		 6992

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

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