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
2026-09-08T18:13:58.304770

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
0.1591 USD/h 0.6309 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.1808 USD/h 0.6309 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.3255 USD/h 0.6309 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0568 USD/h 0.6315 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1954 USD/h 0.6315 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.2783 USD/h 0.6315 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.2796 USD/h 0.6315 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1624 USD/h 0.646 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.3447 USD/h 0.646 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.2446 USD/h 0.6641 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0728 USD/h 0.6653 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.2072 USD/h 0.6653 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1283 USD/h 0.6768 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.1591 USD/h 0.6768 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.062 USD/h 0.6889 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.2296 USD/h 0.6889 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.2344 USD/h 0.6889 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.2408 USD/h 0.6889 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.2814 USD/h 0.6918 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.2415 USD/h 0.694 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1613 USD/h 0.6969 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.3003 USD/h 0.7076 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2029 USD/h 0.7366 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.2068 USD/h 0.7366 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.2509 USD/h 0.7366 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.1052 USD/h 0.739 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1484 USD/h 0.739 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.354 USD/h 0.739 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.1382 USD/h 0.7399 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2638 USD/h 0.7514 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.4395 USD/h 0.7713 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.2406 USD/h 0.8025 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.3756 USD/h 0.8139 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.2023 USD/h 0.8202 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1836 USD/h 0.9105 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1452 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
132.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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

      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

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.773Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.745 50.00% 50.00% -13.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 8,714,245 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.746 20.00% 20.00% -5.69%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,224 2,418 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 83,471 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.772 10.00% 10.00% -2.55%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,994 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.843 10.00% 10.00% -1.69%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,158

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 7,164

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 15418
      Compression
      		 221521
      Encryption
      		 6814
      Extended Instructions
      		 13003
      Floating Point Maths
      		 26644
      Integer Maths
      		 49520
      Physics
      		 1441
      Prime Numbers
      		 65
      Single Threaded
      		 1994
      String Sorting
      		 25840

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2224
      Database Operations
      		 5671
      Memory Latency
      		 55
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24162
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10583
      Memory Write
      		 9865

      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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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      n2-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n2-standard-4 416 GiB0
      n2-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-8 88 GiB0

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