g2-standard-16 by Google Cloud Platform

g2-standard-16 is a Graphics Optimized: 1 NVIDIA L4 GPU, 16 vCPUs, 64GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.5243 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
1 GPU
Spare SCore
12,653
(All-cores)
1,195
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1600016
Name
g2-standard-16
API Reference Object
-
Description
Graphics Optimized: 1 NVIDIA L4 GPU, 16 vCPUs, 64GB RAM
Family
g2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-16T21:36:39.437149

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.6101 USD/h 1.1435 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.6865 USD/h 1.1472 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.6865 USD/h 1.1472 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.6865 USD/h 1.1472 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.6082 USD/h 1.1942 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.7234 USD/h 1.2058 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.754 USD/h 1.2632 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.7558 USD/h 1.2632 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.7579 USD/h 1.2632 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.7733 USD/h 1.2921 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.7837 USD/h 1.3062 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.7959 USD/h 1.3284 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.8072 USD/h 1.352 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.8493 USD/h 1.4153 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.5243 USD/h 1.4732 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.7957 USD/h 1.4732 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.9292 USD/h 1.5527 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
1.0902 USD/h 1.8355 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
39 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
39 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512_vnni, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
10.6
Scalability
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
1
Accelerator Memory Min
24 GiB
Accelerator Memory Total
24 GiB
Accelerator Type
GPU
Accelerator Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Accelerator Family
Ada Lovelace
Accelerator Model
L4
Accelerators
  • NVIDIA Ada Lovelace NVIDIA L4 (Memory amount: 23034, Firmware version: 590.48.01, BIOS version: 95.04.29.00.07, Clock rate: 2040)
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 GPU-accelerated virtual machine featuring an NVIDIA L4 GPU and dedicated Intel Xeon processors, optimized for machine learning inference and graphics rendering.

    GPU AcceleratedGeneral Purpose

    Google Cloud Platform g2-standard-16 is a graphics-optimized instance designed for GPU-accelerated workloads. It features an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor with 16 dedicated vCPUs, 64.0 GB of system memory, and a single NVIDIA L4 GPU with 24 GB of VRAM. The instance does not include local storage. Performance benchmarks reveal top-tier capabilities in LLM inference for small and medium models, while general single-core CPU performance and single-threaded compression tasks remain in the lower tier. Multi-core CPU performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations perform at an average level. This hardware profile offers a qualitatively cost-effective solution for GPU-driven tasks like machine learning inference, image processing, and ray tracing, though it presents tradeoffs for workloads requiring high single-threaded CPU speed or local storage.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.69Score
    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) 1,228,906 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.63 50.00% 50.00% -21.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 7,702,085 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.64 20.00% 20.00% -8.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,521 2,417 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 93,030 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.85 10.00% 10.00% -1.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,691 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,063

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,659

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 13538
    Compression
    		 187062
    Encryption
    		 5810
    Extended Instructions
    		 11945
    Floating Point Maths
    		 22743
    Integer Maths
    		 42240
    Physics
    		 1521
    Prime Numbers
    		 76
    Single Threaded
    		 1691
    String Sorting
    		 22203

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2521
    Database Operations
    		 5263
    Memory Latency
    		 52
    Memory Read Cached
    		 20704
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11185
    Memory Write
    		 10359

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators
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    g2-standard-24 2496 GiB2
    g2-standard-32 32128 GiB1
    g2-standard-48 48192 GiB4
    g2-standard-96 96384 GiB8

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