n2-highcpu-16 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-highcpu-16 is a 16 vCPUs 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0568 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
14,867
(All-cores)
1,409
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
903016
Name
n2-highcpu-16
Description
16 vCPUs 16 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-23T22:06:25.429730

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.344 USD/h 0.5736 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.344 USD/h 0.5736 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.344 USD/h 0.5736 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.3442 USD/h 0.5736 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1429 USD/h 0.6309 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.1791 USD/h 0.6309 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.3783 USD/h 0.6309 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0568 USD/h 0.6315 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1755 USD/h 0.6315 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.2894 USD/h 0.6315 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.3066 USD/h 0.6315 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1613 USD/h 0.646 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.3584 USD/h 0.646 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.2299 USD/h 0.6641 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0653 USD/h 0.6653 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.186 USD/h 0.6653 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1272 USD/h 0.6768 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.1746 USD/h 0.6768 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.062 USD/h 0.6889 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.2324 USD/h 0.6889 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.2391 USD/h 0.6889 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.2635 USD/h 0.6889 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.3213 USD/h 0.6918 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.2272 USD/h 0.694 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1375 USD/h 0.6969 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2696 USD/h 0.7076 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.2052 USD/h 0.7366 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2131 USD/h 0.7366 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.2135 USD/h 0.7366 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.1037 USD/h 0.739 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1474 USD/h 0.739 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.4071 USD/h 0.739 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.1371 USD/h 0.7399 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2742 USD/h 0.7514 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.4361 USD/h 0.7713 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.2263 USD/h 0.8025 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.3727 USD/h 0.8139 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.2103 USD/h 0.8202 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.221 USD/h 0.9105 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.152 USD/h 0.9177 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.8 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
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
33 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, 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
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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

      An x86_64 compute-optimized configuration featuring sixteen dedicated vCPUs and sixteen gigabytes of memory for compute-bound workloads.

      Compute Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highcpu-16 is an x86_64 compute-optimized server featuring 16 dedicated Intel Xeon vCPUs running at 2.8 GHz and 16.0 GB of RAM. Lacking local storage and GPUs, this instance provides a low memory-to-vCPU ratio of 1.0 GB per core. Benchmark data indicates average multi-core performance, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 7164.0 and a stress-ng multi-core score of 14867.36, though single-core performance remains in the lower tier. The hardware supports AVX-512 instructions, making it suitable for compute-bound tasks that do not require large memory footprints. It is appropriate for workloads such as software compilation, static web serving, and lightweight text or image processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.76Score
      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) 1,427,760 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.74 50.00% 50.00% -14.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 8,714,245 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.72 20.00% 20.00% -6.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,224 2,416 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 83,471 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,994 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,158

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 7,164

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 15,418
      Compression
      		 221,521
      Encryption
      		 6,814
      Extended Instructions
      		 13,003
      Floating Point Maths
      		 26,644
      Integer Maths
      		 49,520
      Physics
      		 1,441
      Prime Numbers
      		 65
      Single Threaded
      		 1,994
      String Sorting
      		 25,840

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,224
      Database Operations
      		 5,671
      Memory Latency
      		 55
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,162
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,583
      Memory Write
      		 9,865

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 269.13 290.21 1.08×
      bitops
      		 126,425 1,031,785 8.16×
      branch
      		 133,329 1,689,768 12.67×
      funccall
      		 616.49 5,030 8.16×
      funcret
      		 10,746 125,107 11.64×
      hash
      		 146,494 1,695,350 11.57×
      intmath
      		 59,372 582,525 9.81×
      nop
      		 182,950 1,301,842 7.12×
      prime
      		 383,015 3,323,009 8.68×
      rotate
      		 94,893 809,933 8.54×
      str
      		 875,690 7,130,113 8.14×
      wcs
      		 608,517 4,198,878 6.90×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,755 20,426 7.41×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 706.77 7,196 10.18×
      zlib
      		 49.51 729.41 14.73×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 40,669 311,484 7.66×
      clone
      		 479.64 2,618 5.46×
      context
      		 4,578 55,609 12.15×
      cpu-sched
      		 62.94 995.28 15.81×
      eventfd
      		 49,670 575,810 11.59×
      fault
      		 16,408 149,429 9.11×
      fork
      		 5,475 46,809 8.55×
      getrandom
      		 47,972 437,495 9.12×
      hrtimers
      		 319,082 1,626,496 5.10×
      mprotect
      		 1,283,328 4,175,120 3.25×
      mtx
      		 11,927,167 486,598,937 40.80×
      munmap
      		 3,692 34,834 9.43×
      null
      		 688,549 6,957,692 10.10×
      pipe
      		 867,043 10,771,901 12.42×
      priv-instr
      		 797,238 7,955,050 9.98×
      resched
      		 5,644,895 906,474 0.16×
      switch
      		 72,323 3,772,873 52.17×
      timermix
      		 177,966 2,296,803 12.91×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 11,856 31,154 2.63×
      tsc
      		 745,343 8,796,030 11.80×
      usersyscall
      		 609,342 6,021,373 9.88×
      vdso
      		 89,069,160 911,126,469 10.23×
      vfork
      		 34,781 221,953 6.38×
      x86syscall
      		 7,912,100 88,052,598 11.13×
      yield
      		 12,816,363 14,066,425 1.10×
      zero
      		 4,248,286 39,084,928 9.20×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,400 148,048 10.28×
      expmath
      		 2,801 32,784 11.70×
      fma
      		 620,186 8,611,948 13.89×
      fp
      		 187.04 1,601 8.56×
      fractal
      		 4.8 57.2 11.92×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,984 35,287 11.83×
      logmath
      		 4,707 54,459 11.57×
      matrix
      		 3,411 41,314 12.11×
      matrix-3d
      		 730.03 3,650 5.00×
      monte-carlo
      		 237.31 2,586 10.90×
      mpfr
      		 1,369 11,713 8.56×
      powmath
      		 1,635 19,452 11.90×
      trig
      		 1,908 19,408 10.17×
      veccmp
      		 19,714 152,190 7.72×
      vecfp
      		 1,481 14,597 9.86×
      vecmath
      		 3,144 36,211 11.52×
      vecshuf
      		 646.39 5,609 8.68×
      vecwide
      		 30,997 286,660 9.25×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.8 64 8.21×
      bsearch
      		 240.3 2,610 10.86×
      bubblesort
      		 1 6.4 6.40×
      fibsearch
      		 279.94 2,782 9.94×
      heapsort
      		 9.2 83.6 9.09×
      hsearch
      		 7,075 64,271 9.08×
      insertionsort
      		 10.2 48 4.71×
      malloc
      		 2,355,974 24,727,694 10.50×
      mcontend
      		 126.47 3,351 26.50×
      mergesort
      		 26 290.39 11.17×
      qsort
      		 20 167.19 8.36×
      skiplist
      		 5,277 61,521 11.66×
      tree
      		 1.4 12.79 9.14×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 409,060 1,077,281 2.63×
      cachehammer
      		 359,680 5,274,790 14.67×
      cacheline
      		 70.88 1,013 14.29×
      l1cache
      		 271.76 1,968 7.24×
      memcpy
      		 392.49 3,093 7.88×
      memrate
      		 1.77 9.48 5.36×
      memthrash
      		 162.49 599.38 3.69×
      ptr-chase
      		 16,397,648 164,496,649 10.03×
      spinmem
      		 147.39 438.77 2.98×
      stream
      		 58.02 6,256 107.83×
      vm
      		 102,185 294,001 2.88×

      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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