n4a-highcpu-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n4a-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 0.0235 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
4,101
(All-cores)
2,063
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
999921009
Name
n4a-highcpu-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM
Family
n4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
14
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-07T13:46:27.925379

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0235 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0235 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0259 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.03 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0301 USD/h 0.0682 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0347 USD/h 0.0715 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0359 USD/h 0.074 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0371 USD/h 0.0766 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0388 USD/h 0.0801 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N3
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
112 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
112 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, sm3, sm4, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, dit, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svepmull, svebitperm, svesha3, svesm4, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16, dgh, rng, bti, ecv, afp, wfxt
Ecpus
2
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

      An efficient dual-core ARM server with dedicated Neoverse-N3 processors, optimized for lightweight single-threaded workloads and microservices.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n4a-highcpu-2 is an arm64 server instance featuring 2 dedicated physical cores on the ARMv8 Neoverse-N3 architecture running at 3.4 GHz. It is configured with 4.0 GB of RAM, providing 2.0 GB per core, and lacks local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks indicate strong single-threaded gzip compression and average single-core stress-ng performance, though multi-core CPU metrics and memory bandwidth are generally weak to poor. Qualitatively, this instance offers a cost-effective entry point for dedicated ARM compute, trading off memory capacity and multi-threaded throughput for single-core efficiency. It is best suited for lightweight single-threaded workloads, basic web serving, and small-scale containerized microservices.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.354Score
      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) 500,548 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.261 50.00% 50.00% -48.90%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,817,775 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.241 20.00% 20.00% -24.80%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,856 2,418 0.768 10.00% 10.00% -2.61%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 76,341 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.706 10.00% 10.00% -3.42%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,887 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.798 10.00% 10.00% -2.23%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2297
      Compression
      		 14339
      Encryption
      		 494
      Extended Instructions
      		 1990
      Floating Point Maths
      		 10190
      Integer Maths
      		 11691
      Physics
      		 617
      Prime Numbers
      		 30
      Single Threaded
      		 1887
      String Sorting
      		 10209

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1856
      Database Operations
      		 2687
      Memory Latency
      		 60
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23088
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 15025
      Memory Write
      		 25611

      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

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

      Alternatives

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      n4a-highmem-1 18 GiB0
      n4a-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n4a-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0
      n4a-standard-4 416 GiB0

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