n1-highcpu-16 by Google Cloud Platform

n1-highcpu-16 is a 16 vCPUs, 14.4 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 14 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0911 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
14 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
11,756
(All-cores)
1,113
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
4016
Name
n1-highcpu-16
Description
16 vCPUs, 14.4 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
29
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-03T09:51:24.648031

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.2906 USD/h 0.5668 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.2906 USD/h 0.5668 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.2906 USD/h 0.5668 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.3353 USD/h 0.6235 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.374 USD/h 0.6235 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.286 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.3718 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.3735 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1214 USD/h 0.6241 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.2353 USD/h 0.6384 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.2711 USD/h 0.6384 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1542 USD/h 0.6563 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.169 USD/h 0.6808 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.2519 USD/h 0.6808 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.2719 USD/h 0.6808 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.3116 USD/h 0.6808 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.2235 USD/h 0.6858 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1668 USD/h 0.6992 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.3043 USD/h 0.7279 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.3355 USD/h 0.7279 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.3548 USD/h 0.7279 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2473 USD/h 0.7303 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.336 USD/h 0.7303 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2795 USD/h 0.7425 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0911 USD/h 0.7622 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1291 USD/h 0.7931 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1363 USD/h 0.8043 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.3563 USD/h 0.8043 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.2991 USD/h 0.8997 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
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
45 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
45 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, pti, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, arat, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
10.6
Scalability
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
14 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
14 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

      A dedicated 16-vCPU compute-optimized instance designed for multi-threaded processing and CPU-bound workloads with minimal memory overhead.

      Compute Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform n1-highcpu-16 is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and 14.0 GB of RAM, resulting in a low memory-to-core ratio of 0.9 GB per vCPU. Powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.2 GHz, it lacks bundled local storage and GPU accelerators. Benchmarks show weak single-core performance but average multi-core capabilities, with a Passmark CPU score of 12708.86 and a Geekbench multi-core score of 5976.0. Memory bandwidth is moderate, with uncached large-block reads at 84.99 GB/sec. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for CPU-bound tasks that do not require substantial memory, making it suitable for multi-threaded workloads like software compilation, static web serving, Redis operations, and small-scale model inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.6Score
      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) 1,015,736 ops/sec 1,920,103 ops/sec 0.53 50.00% 50.00% -27.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,491,193 ops/sec 11,744,104 ops/sec 0.54 20.00% 20.00% -12.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,001 2,415 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 92,540 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.85 10.00% 10.00% -1.60%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,624 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 951

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 5,976

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 12,709
      Compression
      		 173,673
      Encryption
      		 5,431
      Extended Instructions
      		 9,772
      Floating Point Maths
      		 24,153
      Integer Maths
      		 39,259
      Physics
      		 1,420
      Prime Numbers
      		 72
      Single Threaded
      		 1,624
      String Sorting
      		 20,682

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,001
      Database Operations
      		 4,817
      Memory Latency
      		 56
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19,503
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,029
      Memory Write
      		 9,375

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 184.47 172.49 0.94×
      bitops
      		 85,120 778,596 9.15×
      branch
      		 121,449 1,469,023 12.10×
      funccall
      		 427.81 3,491 8.16×
      funcret
      		 8,984 101,707 11.32×
      hash
      		 99,164 1,139,851 11.49×
      intmath
      		 17,501 209,057 11.95×
      nop
      		 150,988 1,043,532 6.91×
      prime
      		 253,540 2,255,138 8.89×
      rotate
      		 76,277 843,584 11.06×
      str
      		 544,682 4,613,245 8.47×
      wcs
      		 380,109 3,048,342 8.02×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 1,910 14,843 7.77×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 464.4 4,448 9.58×
      zlib
      		 28.51 494.94 17.36×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 15,168 141,260 9.31×
      clone
      		 269.47 1,707 6.33×
      context
      		 1,077 11,979 11.12×
      cpu-sched
      		 68.76 1,060 15.41×
      eventfd
      		 38,368 299,756 7.81×
      fault
      		 7,801 79,633 10.21×
      fork
      		 2,337 25,864 11.07×
      getrandom
      		 36,495 341,725 9.36×
      hrtimers
      		 143,416 1,270,249 8.86×
      mprotect
      		 856,988 1,573,719 1.84×
      mtx
      		 8,297,877 343,300,187 41.37×
      munmap
      		 1,677 19,131 11.41×
      null
      		 104,416 1,160,800 11.12×
      pipe
      		 628,778 3,529,829 5.61×
      priv-instr
      		 285,020 2,984,199 10.47×
      resched
      		 1,960,334 465,224 0.24×
      switch
      		 80,595 1,728,991 21.45×
      timermix
      		 137,531 1,468,447 10.68×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,465 24,818 2.93×
      tsc
      		 785,370 8,746,545 11.14×
      usersyscall
      		 188,227 1,979,240 10.52×
      vdso
      		 65,346,160 736,082,178 11.26×
      vfork
      		 20,396 140,357 6.88×
      x86syscall
      		 1,179,274 13,119,165 11.12×
      yield
      		 5,302,610 5,611,165 1.06×
      zero
      		 911,631 9,800,565 10.75×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 12,740 129,927 10.20×
      expmath
      		 2,118 25,700 12.13×
      fma
      		 506,449 6,512,413 12.86×
      fp
      		 102.95 964.09 9.36×
      fractal
      		 3.8 45.2 11.89×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,216 27,435 12.38×
      logmath
      		 3,571 41,822 11.71×
      matrix
      		 2,592 32,937 12.71×
      matrix-3d
      		 484.3 2,585 5.34×
      monte-carlo
      		 63.01 679.63 10.79×
      mpfr
      		 948.2 8,174 8.62×
      powmath
      		 1,254 15,233 12.15×
      trig
      		 1,353 14,269 10.55×
      veccmp
      		 12,280 103,083 8.39×
      vecfp
      		 1,098 10,994 10.01×
      vecmath
      		 1,758 21,654 12.32×
      vecshuf
      		 444.6 3,806 8.56×
      vecwide
      		 21,024 189,744 9.02×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.6 52.8 9.43×
      bsearch
      		 189.66 1,710 9.02×
      bubblesort
      		 0.6 3.2 5.33×
      fibsearch
      		 192.84 1,760 9.13×
      heapsort
      		 6.8 63.99 9.41×
      hsearch
      		 3,841 38,335 9.98×
      insertionsort
      		 6.4 51.2 8.00×
      malloc
      		 1,464,797 20,656,375 14.10×
      mcontend
      		 111.47 2,999 26.91×
      mergesort
      		 18.4 194.99 10.60×
      qsort
      		 11.8 106.2 9.00×
      skiplist
      		 3,836 43,303 11.29×
      tree
      		 1 8.59 8.59×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 242,227 390,382 1.61×
      cachehammer
      		 479,700 6,101,084 12.72×
      cacheline
      		 25.55 440.06 17.22×
      l1cache
      		 179.12 1,536 8.58×
      memcpy
      		 274.98 2,351 8.55×
      memrate
      		 1.16 5.97 5.15×
      memthrash
      		 122.27 430.11 3.52×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,672,070 147,043,518 13.78×
      spinmem
      		 80 248.98 3.11×
      stream
      		 20.77 2,683 129.17×
      vm
      		 16,817 292,948 17.42×

      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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      n1-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n1-standard-4 415 GiB0
      n1-highmem-4 426 GiB0

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