t2a-standard-2 by Google Cloud Platform

t2a-standard-2 is a 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0322 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,595
(All-cores)
1,812
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1220002
Name
t2a-standard-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM
Family
t2a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
12.67
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T12:01:06.421484

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0396 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0483 USD/h 0.0809 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0322 USD/h 0.095 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Ampere
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N1
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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, lrcpc, dcpop, asimddp, ssbs
Ecpus
2
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

      Balanced ARM-based dual-core cloud instance providing eight gigabytes of RAM and dedicated compute for lightweight containerized workloads.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform t2a-standard-2 is an ARM-based general-purpose instance featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs and 8.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 processor operating at 3.0 GHz, the server provides 2 physical cores with 1 thread per core, alongside 32 MB of L3 cache and hardware AES encryption support. The server contains no local storage or attached GPUs. Benchmark results indicate moderate single-threaded performance, with a stress-ng single-core score of 1812.29 and single-threaded gzip compression throughput of 24.01 GB/sec. However, multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics reflect lower relative capacity, such as a Geekbench multi-core score of 1997.0 and large block memory write bandwidth of 16.42 GB/sec. The instance delivers steady execution for lightweight scale-out applications, microservices, and entry-level ARM-native web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.19Score
      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) 267,323 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.14 50.00% 50.00% -63.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,557,207 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.13 20.00% 20.00% -34.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 860 2,416 0.36 10.00% 10.00% -9.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 41,297 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.37 10.00% 10.00% -9.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,321 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,101

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,997

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1,596
      Compression
      		 10,375
      Encryption
      		 322
      Extended Instructions
      		 1,471
      Floating Point Maths
      		 7,096
      Integer Maths
      		 9,348
      Physics
      		 383
      Prime Numbers
      		 18
      Single Threaded
      		 1,321
      String Sorting
      		 6,660

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 858
      Database Operations
      		 1,417
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 11,286
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,090
      Memory Write
      		 14,881

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 207.63 194.68 0.94×
      bitops
      		 107,659 212,291 1.97×
      branch
      		 217,566 431,675 1.98×
      funccall
      		 1,328 2,628 1.98×
      funcret
      		 20,693 40,911 1.98×
      hash
      		 126,627 250,897 1.98×
      intmath
      		 30,555 60,710 1.99×
      nop
      		 172,193 341,083 1.98×
      prime
      		 333,227 662,916 1.99×
      rotate
      		 95,665 189,583 1.98×
      str
      		 510,978 1,012,171 1.98×
      wcs
      		 117,976 233,638 1.98×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,873 5,717 1.99×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 512.9 1,007 1.96×
      zlib
      		 35.31 65.06 1.84×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 35,821 64,005 1.79×
      clone
      		 224.27 323.99 1.44×
      context
      		 2,593 5,140 1.98×
      cpu-sched
      		 60.48 122 2.02×
      eventfd
      		 68,336 178,824 2.62×
      fault
      		 12,337 21,548 1.75×
      fork
      		 4,192 8,104 1.93×
      getrandom
      		 47,814 94,771 1.98×
      hrtimers
      		 204,207 351,768 1.72×
      mprotect
      		 610,853 666,256 1.09×
      mtx
      		 6,899,638 45,725,515 6.63×
      munmap
      		 2,982 5,247 1.76×
      null
      		 459,299 908,627 1.98×
      pipe
      		 685,231 1,312,553 1.92×
      priv-instr
      		 737,443 1,367,186 1.85×
      resched
      		 372,186 219,534 0.59×
      switch
      		 130,181 596,675 4.58×
      timermix
      		 63,787 684,422 10.73×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 4,139 4,934 1.19×
      vdso
      		 46,408,087 91,993,407 1.98×
      vfork
      		 28,129 45,615 1.62×
      yield
      		 1,726,933 1,908,382 1.11×
      zero
      		 1,751,232 3,466,152 1.98×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 1,324 2,617 1.98×
      expmath
      		 238.06 471.37 1.98×
      fma
      		 635,085 1,260,026 1.98×
      fp
      		 103 202.63 1.97×
      fractal
      		 6.4 12.8 2.00×
      hyperbolic
      		 242.26 478.58 1.98×
      logmath
      		 290.86 577.59 1.99×
      matrix
      		 5,294 10,485 1.98×
      matrix-3d
      		 472.09 973.77 2.06×
      monte-carlo
      		 192.89 376.21 1.95×
      mpfr
      		 634.81 1,258 1.98×
      powmath
      		 174.64 346.74 1.99×
      trig
      		 326.68 645.23 1.98×
      veccmp
      		 16,925 33,516 1.98×
      vecfp
      		 739.27 1,465 1.98×
      vecmath
      		 3,065 6,072 1.98×
      vecshuf
      		 665.57 1,320 1.98×
      vecwide
      		 18,229 36,155 1.98×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.4 10.6 1.96×
      bsearch
      		 255.75 506.19 1.98×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 1.6 2.00×
      fibsearch
      		 271.08 537.55 1.98×
      heapsort
      		 8.2 16.2 1.98×
      hsearch
      		 4,739 9,441 1.99×
      insertionsort
      		 4.6 8.8 1.91×
      malloc
      		 2,470,745 5,042,298 2.04×
      mcontend
      		 621.5 2,205 3.55×
      mergesort
      		 27.6 54.8 1.99×
      qsort
      		 19.2 37.8 1.97×
      skiplist
      		 5,306 10,539 1.99×
      tree
      		 1 2 2.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 271,501 275,916 1.02×
      cachehammer
      		 199,716 364,596 1.83×
      cacheline
      		 27.94 56.33 2.02×
      l1cache
      		 180.78 357.17 1.98×
      memcpy
      		 440.01 871.91 1.98×
      memrate
      		 3.14 6.31 2.01×
      memthrash
      		 70.62 71.9 1.02×
      ptr-chase
      		 11,180,533 21,439,392 1.92×
      spinmem
      		 965.94 0.4 0.00×
      stream
      		 68.83 260.01 3.78×
      vm
      		 59,348 210,063 3.54×

      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

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