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 0.031 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
2026-09-09T07:40:36.255579

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0433 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0483 USD/h 0.0809 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.031 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
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

      A dedicated ARM64 virtual machine with a balanced resource profile for entry-level development, testing, and lightweight general-purpose workloads.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform t2a-standard-2 is an ARM64 general-purpose server instance featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs on a 3.0 GHz Ampere Neoverse-N1 processor and 8.0 GB of system memory. Lacking local storage and GPU accelerators, this instance delivers 4.0 GB of RAM per core. Performance benchmarks show average single-core capabilities, such as a stress-ng single-core score of 1812.29 and 24.01 GB/sec in single-threaded gzip compression. However, multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics remain in the lower tiers, with a multi-core Geekbench score of 1997.0 and uncached read memory bandwidth of 26.99 GB/sec. This resource profile offers a cost-effective environment for ARM64 development, basic text processing, and lightweight general-purpose workloads.

      Economics

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.193Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.139 50.00% 50.00% -62.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,557,207 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.133 20.00% 20.00% -33.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 858.3 2,418 0.355 10.00% 10.00% -9.84%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 41,297 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.382 10.00% 10.00% -9.17%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,321 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.558 10.00% 10.00% -5.67%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,101

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,997

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1596
      Compression
      		 10375
      Encryption
      		 322
      Extended Instructions
      		 1471
      Floating Point Maths
      		 7096
      Integer Maths
      		 9348
      Physics
      		 383
      Prime Numbers
      		 18
      Single Threaded
      		 1321
      String Sorting
      		 6660

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 858
      Database Operations
      		 1417
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 11286
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9090
      Memory Write
      		 14881

      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

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      t2a-standard-1 14 GiB0
      t2a-standard-4 416 GiB0
      t2a-standard-8 832 GiB0
      t2a-standard-16 1664 GiB0
      t2a-standard-32 32128 GiB0
      t2a-standard-48 48192 GiB0

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