n4a-highmem-1 by Google Cloud Platform

n4a-highmem-1 is a 1 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 1 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0183 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,037
(All-cores)
2,037
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
999921016
Name
n4a-highmem-1
Description
1 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM
Family
n4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
22
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-10T01:36:50.045861

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0183 USD/h 0.0505 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0183 USD/h 0.0505 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0202 USD/h 0.0505 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0233 USD/h 0.0505 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0234 USD/h 0.0531 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.027 USD/h 0.0556 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0279 USD/h 0.0576 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0289 USD/h 0.0596 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0302 USD/h 0.0623 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N3
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
1
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

      An ARM-based single-core instance with a high memory-to-CPU ratio, designed for lightweight, memory-dependent, and single-threaded workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n4a-highmem-1 is an ARM-based virtual machine featuring a single dedicated Neoverse-N3 core at 3.4 GHz and 8.0 GB of RAM. Lacking local storage and GPU accelerators, this instance provides a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 1:8. Performance benchmarks indicate average single-core CPU execution and strong single-threaded gzip compression. However, its single-core architecture results in poor multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics, with uncached memory read and write speeds falling into the bottom 25 percent. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-dependent, low-compute workloads but exhibits clear performance trade-offs in parallel processing, database operations, and software compilation. It is best suited for lightweight single-threaded tasks, basic text processing, and small memory-resident applications.

      Economics

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.206Score
      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) 246,502 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.129 50.00% 50.00% -64.10%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,447,987 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.124 20.00% 20.00% -34.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,785 2,418 0.738 10.00% 10.00% -2.99%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 47,770 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.442 10.00% 10.00% -7.84%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,807 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.764 10.00% 10.00% -2.66%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,711

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,701

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1137
      Compression
      		 6842
      Encryption
      		 245
      Extended Instructions
      		 990
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5063
      Integer Maths
      		 5820
      Physics
      		 325
      Prime Numbers
      		 16
      Single Threaded
      		 1807
      String Sorting
      		 5060

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1785
      Database Operations
      		 1391
      Memory Latency
      		 60
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23939
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 15274
      Memory Write
      		 25226

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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      n4a-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0
      n4a-standard-4 416 GiB0

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