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 0.118 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
2026-09-19T06:48:28.817770

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.3364 USD/h 0.5668 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.3364 USD/h 0.5668 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.3364 USD/h 0.5668 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.3134 USD/h 0.6235 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.374 USD/h 0.6235 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.262 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.3718 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.3744 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1361 USD/h 0.6241 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.2372 USD/h 0.6384 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.2514 USD/h 0.6384 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1339 USD/h 0.6563 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1625 USD/h 0.6808 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.2087 USD/h 0.6808 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.2489 USD/h 0.6808 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.2852 USD/h 0.6808 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.2262 USD/h 0.6858 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1689 USD/h 0.6992 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2921 USD/h 0.7279 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.3556 USD/h 0.7279 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.4117 USD/h 0.7279 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2767 USD/h 0.7303 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.3589 USD/h 0.7303 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2829 USD/h 0.7425 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.118 USD/h 0.7622 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1191 USD/h 0.7931 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1524 USD/h 0.8043 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.4176 USD/h 0.8043 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.2739 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
132.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
14 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
14 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 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

      0.601Score
      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 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.529 50.00% 50.00% -27.30%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,491,193 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.553 20.00% 20.00% -11.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,001 2,418 0.828 10.00% 10.00% -1.87%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 92,540 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.855 10.00% 10.00% -1.55%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,624 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.687 10.00% 10.00% -3.68%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 951

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 5,976

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 12709
      Compression
      		 173673
      Encryption
      		 5431
      Extended Instructions
      		 9772
      Floating Point Maths
      		 24153
      Integer Maths
      		 39259
      Physics
      		 1420
      Prime Numbers
      		 72
      Single Threaded
      		 1624
      String Sorting
      		 20682

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2001
      Database Operations
      		 4817
      Memory Latency
      		 56
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19503
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10029
      Memory Write
      		 9375

      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
      n1-standard-1 14 GiB0
      n1-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      n1-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n1-highmem-2 213 GiB0
      n1-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n1-standard-4 415 GiB0
      n1-highmem-4 426 GiB0

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