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 0.0191 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
2026-10-25T01:49:54.627412

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0191 USD/h 0.0505 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0201 USD/h 0.0505 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0201 USD/h 0.0505 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0257 USD/h 0.0505 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0257 USD/h 0.0531 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0334 USD/h 0.0556 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0307 USD/h 0.0576 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0318 USD/h 0.0596 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0374 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
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

      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

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.21Score
      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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.13 50.00% 50.00% -64.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,447,987 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.12 20.00% 20.00% -35.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,785 2,416 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 47,770 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.44 10.00% 10.00% -7.90%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,807 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,711

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,701

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1,137
      Compression
      		 6,842
      Encryption
      		 245
      Extended Instructions
      		 990
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5,063
      Integer Maths
      		 5,820
      Physics
      		 325
      Prime Numbers
      		 16
      Single Threaded
      		 1,807
      String Sorting
      		 5,060

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,785
      Database Operations
      		 1,391
      Memory Latency
      		 60
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,939
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 15,274
      Memory Write
      		 25,226

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 874.23 874.23 1.00×
      bitops
      		 147,633 147,633 1.00×
      branch
      		 271,398 271,398 1.00×
      funccall
      		 2,048 2,048 1.00×
      funcret
      		 37,247 37,247 1.00×
      hash
      		 166,644 166,644 1.00×
      intmath
      		 38,243 38,243 1.00×
      nop
      		 241,177 241,177 1.00×
      prime
      		 505,897 505,897 1.00×
      rotate
      		 174,068 174,068 1.00×
      str
      		 671,139 671,139 1.00×
      wcs
      		 221,461 221,461 1.00×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,537 3,537 1.00×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 674.13 674.13 1.00×
      zlib
      		 38.02 38.02 1.00×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 42,332 42,332 1.00×
      clone
      		 372.64 372.64 1.00×
      context
      		 4,182 4,182 1.00×
      cpu-sched
      		 51 51 1.00×
      eventfd
      		 170,885 170,885 1.00×
      fault
      		 22,580 22,580 1.00×
      fork
      		 7,905 7,905 1.00×
      getrandom
      		 62,011 62,011 1.00×
      hrtimers
      		 186,282 186,282 1.00×
      mprotect
      		 577,022 577,022 1.00×
      mtx
      		 67,092,485 67,092,485 1.00×
      munmap
      		 5,375 5,375 1.00×
      null
      		 685,634 685,634 1.00×
      pipe
      		 895,127 895,127 1.00×
      priv-instr
      		 1,003,369 1,003,369 1.00×
      resched
      		 15,924 15,924 1.00×
      switch
      		 370,676 370,676 1.00×
      timermix
      		 525,868 525,868 1.00×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 5,771 5,771 1.00×
      vdso
      		 44,598,780 44,598,780 1.00×
      vfork
      		 72,044 72,044 1.00×
      yield
      		 1,429,861 1,429,861 1.00×
      zero
      		 2,911,899 2,911,899 1.00×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 2,094 2,094 1.00×
      expmath
      		 405.73 405.73 1.00×
      fma
      		 794,782 794,782 1.00×
      fp
      		 170.4 170.4 1.00×
      fractal
      		 7.6 7.6 1.00×
      hyperbolic
      		 401.13 401.13 1.00×
      logmath
      		 476.83 476.83 1.00×
      matrix
      		 6,722 6,722 1.00×
      matrix-3d
      		 918.23 918.23 1.00×
      monte-carlo
      		 258.94 258.94 1.00×
      mpfr
      		 1,434 1,434 1.00×
      powmath
      		 270.17 270.17 1.00×
      trig
      		 535.43 535.43 1.00×
      veccmp
      		 19,931 19,931 1.00×
      vecfp
      		 1,658 1,658 1.00×
      vecmath
      		 4,707 4,707 1.00×
      vecshuf
      		 1,028 1,028 1.00×
      vecwide
      		 29,544 29,544 1.00×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 9 9 1.00×
      bsearch
      		 345.91 345.91 1.00×
      bubblesort
      		 1.4 1.4 1.00×
      fibsearch
      		 400.3 400.3 1.00×
      heapsort
      		 13.2 13.2 1.00×
      hsearch
      		 7,477 7,477 1.00×
      insertionsort
      		 7.6 7.6 1.00×
      malloc
      		 2,432,356 2,432,356 1.00×
      mcontend
      		 2,063 2,063 1.00×
      mergesort
      		 35.2 35.2 1.00×
      qsort
      		 24.8 24.8 1.00×
      skiplist
      		 6,971 6,971 1.00×
      tree
      		 1.6 1.6 1.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 502,618 502,618 1.00×
      cachehammer
      		 1,596,227 1,596,227 1.00×
      cacheline
      		 26.09 26.09 1.00×
      l1cache
      		 119.79 119.79 1.00×
      memcpy
      		 706.06 706.06 1.00×
      memrate
      		 4.95 4.95 1.00×
      memthrash
      		 65.22 65.22 1.00×
      ptr-chase
      		 20,452,976 20,452,976 1.00×
      spinmem
      		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
      stream
      		 28.26 28.26 1.00×
      vm
      		 152,483 152,483 1.00×

      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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