n1-standard-16 by Google Cloud Platform

n1-standard-16 is a 16 vCPUs, 60 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 60 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1221 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
60 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
11,697
(All-cores)
1,114
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
3016
Name
n1-standard-16
Description
16 vCPUs, 60 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
24
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-02T12:29:21.237583

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.3897 USD/h 0.76 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.3897 USD/h 0.76 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.3897 USD/h 0.76 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.4496 USD/h 0.836 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.5015 USD/h 0.836 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1629 USD/h 0.8367 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.3835 USD/h 0.8367 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.4985 USD/h 0.8367 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.5007 USD/h 0.8367 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.3155 USD/h 0.8559 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.3637 USD/h 0.8559 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.2067 USD/h 0.88 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.2267 USD/h 0.9128 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.3377 USD/h 0.9128 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.3647 USD/h 0.9129 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.4176 USD/h 0.9129 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.2995 USD/h 0.9196 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2237 USD/h 0.9375 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.4076 USD/h 0.975 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.4494 USD/h 0.975 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.4753 USD/h 0.975 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.3316 USD/h 0.9792 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.4506 USD/h 0.9792 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.3748 USD/h 0.9955 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.1221 USD/h 1.0219 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1731 USD/h 1.0634 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1827 USD/h 1.0784 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.4777 USD/h 1.0784 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.401 USD/h 1.2064 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.3 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, pti, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, arat, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
10.5
Scalability
65.62

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
60 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
60 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

      Server Description

      A balanced general-purpose virtual machine offering sixteen virtual cores and sixty gigabytes of memory for multi-threaded workloads.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n1-standard-16 is a general-purpose virtual machine featuring 16 vCPUs and 60.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor running at 2.3 GHz. It utilizes 8 physical cores with hyper-threading enabled, providing a dedicated CPU allocation. The instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Benchmark data reveals a significant contrast between single-core and multi-core performance: single-threaded operations, such as gzip compression and Geekbench single-core tests, rank in the lower percentiles, whereas multi-threaded operations, software compilation, and database operations achieve average performance tiers. Memory bandwidth remains stable and average across both read and write tests. This instance is best suited for parallelizable, general-purpose workloads such as static web serving, multi-threaded software compilation, and moderate database operations where high single-core speed is not a primary requirement.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.61Score
      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) 1,040,121 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.53 50.00% 50.00% -27.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,671,685 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.56 20.00% 20.00% -11.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,389 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 81,823 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,639 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 924

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 5,863

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 12,704
      Compression
      		 177,005
      Encryption
      		 5,419
      Extended Instructions
      		 9,763
      Floating Point Maths
      		 24,110
      Integer Maths
      		 39,179
      Physics
      		 1,383
      Prime Numbers
      		 66
      Single Threaded
      		 1,639
      String Sorting
      		 20,981

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,389
      Database Operations
      		 4,900
      Memory Latency
      		 54
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19,404
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,314
      Memory Write
      		 9,638

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 176.37 173.67 0.98×
      bitops
      		 85,153 779,732 9.16×
      branch
      		 121,144 1,465,951 12.10×
      funccall
      		 426.74 3,508 8.22×
      funcret
      		 8,947 102,308 11.43×
      hash
      		 99,082 1,134,182 11.45×
      intmath
      		 17,709 209,930 11.85×
      nop
      		 150,775 1,041,702 6.91×
      prime
      		 253,205 2,257,429 8.92×
      rotate
      		 76,074 843,855 11.09×
      str
      		 548,327 4,621,404 8.43×
      wcs
      		 378,661 3,074,120 8.12×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 1,907 14,906 7.82×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 458.5 4,278 9.33×
      zlib
      		 44.16 514.24 11.64×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 13,818 121,020 8.76×
      clone
      		 240.62 1,506 6.26×
      context
      		 988.58 10,084 10.20×
      cpu-sched
      		 84.46 1,000 11.84×
      eventfd
      		 33,611 268,438 7.99×
      fault
      		 6,950 74,410 10.71×
      fork
      		 2,334 23,646 10.13×
      getrandom
      		 35,026 336,049 9.59×
      hrtimers
      		 717,842 1,150,143 1.60×
      mprotect
      		 772,351 1,322,940 1.71×
      mtx
      		 8,217,264 321,422,224 39.12×
      munmap
      		 1,607 16,773 10.43×
      null
      		 96,400 949,417 9.85×
      pipe
      		 605,325 2,928,008 4.84×
      priv-instr
      		 255,326 2,500,098 9.79×
      resched
      		 1,647,356 480,036 0.29×
      switch
      		 82,404 1,489,836 18.08×
      timermix
      		 125,984 1,244,621 9.88×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,436 23,498 3.16×
      tsc
      		 784,206 8,742,358 11.15×
      usersyscall
      		 168,831 1,645,816 9.75×
      vdso
      		 65,031,651 734,203,021 11.29×
      vfork
      		 18,040 132,129 7.32×
      x86syscall
      		 1,087,691 10,755,460 9.89×
      yield
      		 4,407,124 4,592,778 1.04×
      zero
      		 837,852 8,419,238 10.05×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 12,745 121,450 9.53×
      expmath
      		 2,107 25,717 12.21×
      fma
      		 448,796 5,811,933 12.95×
      fp
      		 94.77 968.61 10.22×
      fractal
      		 3.8 45.4 11.95×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,208 27,488 12.45×
      logmath
      		 3,562 42,058 11.81×
      matrix
      		 2,549 32,385 12.71×
      matrix-3d
      		 493.54 2,486 5.04×
      monte-carlo
      		 53.89 634.95 11.78×
      mpfr
      		 947.72 8,150 8.60×
      powmath
      		 1,251 15,259 12.20×
      trig
      		 1,349 14,214 10.54×
      veccmp
      		 12,266 102,493 8.36×
      vecfp
      		 1,052 10,460 9.94×
      vecmath
      		 1,748 21,673 12.40×
      vecshuf
      		 444.3 3,823 8.60×
      vecwide
      		 18,655 168,382 9.03×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.6 52.4 9.36×
      bsearch
      		 190.98 1,719 9.00×
      bubblesort
      		 0.6 3.2 5.33×
      fibsearch
      		 190.71 1,760 9.23×
      heapsort
      		 6.6 64 9.70×
      hsearch
      		 3,858 38,545 9.99×
      insertionsort
      		 6.4 51.2 8.00×
      malloc
      		 1,539,510 20,773,626 13.49×
      mcontend
      		 117.7 2,021 17.17×
      mergesort
      		 18.4 194.99 10.60×
      qsort
      		 11.6 105.6 9.10×
      skiplist
      		 3,829 43,535 11.37×
      tree
      		 1 9.59 9.59×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 256,176 445,549 1.74×
      cachehammer
      		 474,838 5,977,542 12.59×
      cacheline
      		 30.52 539.91 17.69×
      l1cache
      		 178.78 1,539 8.61×
      memcpy
      		 273.5 2,356 8.62×
      memrate
      		 1.15 8.84 7.69×
      memthrash
      		 92.88 481.63 5.19×
      ptr-chase
      		 11,451,097 142,687,862 12.46×
      spinmem
      		 90.39 274.36 3.04×
      stream
      		 20.83 2,542 122.03×
      vm
      		 17,164 292,601 17.05×

      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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