t2a-standard-8 by Google Cloud Platform

t2a-standard-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1224 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
14,472
(All-cores)
1,813
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1220004
Name
t2a-standard-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM
Family
t2a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
14
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T07:46:20.438175

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1664 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1932 USD/h 0.3236 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1224 USD/h 0.3798 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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
8
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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 general-purpose server offering eight dedicated physical cores and thirty-two gigabytes of memory for standard cloud workloads.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform t2a-standard-8 is an Arm-based general-purpose server featuring 8 dedicated physical Ampere Neoverse-N1 cores clocked at 3.0 GHz and 32.0 GB of memory. Operating on the ARMv8 architecture, each core executes a single thread with 64 KB L1d cache, 1.0 MB L2 cache, and 32 MB L3 cache, backed by hardware AES encryption support. The server includes no attached local storage or GPU hardware. Benchmark results indicate average multi-threaded execution, shown by a stress-ng multi-core score of 14,472.4 and Geekbench multi-core score of 6,000.0, alongside steady Redis SET performance of 10.91 million operations per second and static web throughput of 10.09 GB/sec. However, single-core processing and LLM text generation remain weak to poor. With a balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-memory ratio, the t2a-standard-8 offers consistent resource density for general purpose workloads, static web serving, memory caching, and light database operations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.58Score
      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) 1,004,470 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.53 50.00% 50.00% -27.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,432,029 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.53 20.00% 20.00% -12.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,823 2,416 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 93,558 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.85 10.00% 10.00% -1.60%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,317 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,073

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,000

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6,206
      Compression
      		 44,622
      Encryption
      		 1,300
      Extended Instructions
      		 5,952
      Floating Point Maths
      		 28,586
      Integer Maths
      		 37,659
      Physics
      		 1,177
      Prime Numbers
      		 68
      Single Threaded
      		 1,317
      String Sorting
      		 27,135

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,823
      Database Operations
      		 5,611
      Memory Latency
      		 71
      Memory Read Cached
      		 11,263
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8,384
      Memory Write
      		 14,641

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 112.93 90.46 0.80×
      bitops
      		 107,678 859,658 7.98×
      branch
      		 218,309 1,743,465 7.99×
      funccall
      		 1,327 10,604 7.99×
      funcret
      		 20,768 164,453 7.92×
      hash
      		 126,720 1,011,920 7.99×
      intmath
      		 31,596 250,736 7.94×
      nop
      		 172,201 1,374,382 7.98×
      prime
      		 333,753 2,665,005 7.98×
      rotate
      		 95,764 764,204 7.98×
      str
      		 510,810 4,077,480 7.98×
      wcs
      		 118,311 944,157 7.98×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,887 22,962 7.95×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 500.43 4,053 8.10×
      zlib
      		 51.88 306 5.90×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 32,039 198,430 6.19×
      clone
      		 239.57 1,158 4.84×
      context
      		 2,597 20,736 7.98×
      cpu-sched
      		 68.49 516.74 7.54×
      eventfd
      		 64,777 514,953 7.95×
      fault
      		 11,860 71,568 6.03×
      fork
      		 3,502 22,314 6.37×
      getrandom
      		 47,805 381,462 7.98×
      hrtimers
      		 370,077 972,240 2.63×
      mprotect
      		 934,319 2,585,227 2.77×
      mtx
      		 8,168,598 346,857,856 42.46×
      munmap
      		 2,359 16,302 6.91×
      null
      		 460,367 3,677,608 7.99×
      pipe
      		 626,304 4,246,614 6.78×
      priv-instr
      		 732,169 5,269,868 7.20×
      resched
      		 2,665,931 1,071,475 0.40×
      switch
      		 119,021 2,164,556 18.19×
      timermix
      		 340,173 2,720,805 8.00×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 5,650 8,076 1.43×
      vdso
      		 46,469,399 370,975,210 7.98×
      vfork
      		 26,075 112,386 4.31×
      yield
      		 7,080,026 7,386,830 1.04×
      zero
      		 1,747,528 13,938,466 7.98×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 1,324 10,568 7.98×
      expmath
      		 238.18 1,902 7.99×
      fma
      		 636,286 5,079,799 7.98×
      fp
      		 103.04 819.9 7.96×
      fractal
      		 6.6 51.2 7.76×
      hyperbolic
      		 242.49 1,935 7.98×
      logmath
      		 291.41 2,329 7.99×
      matrix
      		 5,301 42,301 7.98×
      matrix-3d
      		 469.66 3,322 7.07×
      monte-carlo
      		 193.02 1,543 7.99×
      mpfr
      		 635.85 5,080 7.99×
      powmath
      		 175.15 1,399 7.98×
      trig
      		 326.99 2,612 7.99×
      veccmp
      		 16,929 135,565 8.01×
      vecfp
      		 739.82 5,905 7.98×
      vecmath
      		 3,067 24,488 7.99×
      vecshuf
      		 667.14 5,330 7.99×
      vecwide
      		 18,198 145,736 8.01×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.4 43.2 8.00×
      bsearch
      		 256.31 2,046 7.98×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 6.4 8.00×
      fibsearch
      		 271.49 2,166 7.98×
      heapsort
      		 8.2 65.4 7.98×
      hsearch
      		 4,881 38,797 7.95×
      insertionsort
      		 4.4 36 8.18×
      malloc
      		 2,012,081 15,898,837 7.90×
      mcontend
      		 278.53 15,967 57.33×
      mergesort
      		 27 215.99 8.00×
      qsort
      		 19.2 153.19 7.98×
      skiplist
      		 5,316 42,428 7.98×
      tree
      		 1 6.4 6.40×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 243,368 375,898 1.54×
      cachehammer
      		 184,777 444,940 2.41×
      cacheline
      		 52.27 398.17 7.62×
      l1cache
      		 181.02 1,445 7.98×
      memcpy
      		 440.77 3,518 7.98×
      memrate
      		 2.96 17.05 5.76×
      memthrash
      		 165.81 229.2 1.38×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,526,860 75,924,291 7.21×
      spinmem
      		 898.95 1,290 1.43×
      stream
      		 61.84 2,785 45.03×
      vm
      		 59,370 535,643 9.02×

      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

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