Compare GCP Instances
| n4-highcpu-8 | e2-highmem-8 |
| High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. n – General purpose 4 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 8 – Number of CPUs | Cost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments. e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities 2 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 8 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | Cost optimized |
| 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM | Efficient Instance, 8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM |
| 8 | 8 |
| 16 GiB | 64 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Emerald Rapids | Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan |
| 177628 | 104083 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | |
| yes | no |
| yes | no |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | SCSI |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| gVNIC | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 1.21x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | n4-highcpu-8 | e2-highmem-8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.3062 | 0.3616 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.3371 | 0.3981 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.3371 | 0.4072 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.3371 | 0.4072 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.3371 | 0.4187 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.3371 | 0.4194 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.3448 | 0.4194 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.3490 | 0.4267 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.3545 | 0.4267 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.3551 | 0.4343 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.3551 | 0.4343 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.3062 | 0.3797 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.3613 | 0.4343 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.3613 | 0.4343 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.3613 | 0.4361 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.3680 | 0.4375 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.3680 | 0.4393 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.3705 | 0.4461 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.3720 | 0.4635 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.3777 | 0.4635 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.3827 | 0.4635 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.3932 | 0.4659 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.3184 | 0.3941 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.3932 | 0.4659 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.3932 | 0.4659 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.3980 | 0.4665 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.4011 | 0.4737 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.4117 | 0.4862 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.4283 | 0.5059 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.4378 | 0.5131 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.4862 | 0.5171 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 0.4899 | 0.5740 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | n/a | 0.5786 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.3184 | 0.3978 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.3215 | 0.3978 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.3215 | 0.3978 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.3215 | 0.3981 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.3337 | 0.3981 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.3368 | 0.3981 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.3062 | 0.3616 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | n/a | 0.3616 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.3062 | 0.3616 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.3062 | n/a |