n2-highmem-16 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-highmem-16 is a 16 vCPUs 128 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1038 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
14,822
(All-cores)
1,409
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
902016
Name
n2-highmem-16
Description
16 vCPUs 128 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17.75
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-07T06:21:44.813173

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.6287 USD/h 1.0481 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.6287 USD/h 1.0481 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.6287 USD/h 1.0481 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.6289 USD/h 1.0481 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.6915 USD/h 1.1529 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.2603 USD/h 1.153 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.3785 USD/h 1.153 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1038 USD/h 1.1538 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.3703 USD/h 1.1538 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.5527 USD/h 1.1538 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.5588 USD/h 1.1539 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.6531 USD/h 1.1803 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.3077 USD/h 1.1804 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.4393 USD/h 1.2136 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.1445 USD/h 1.2158 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.3071 USD/h 1.2158 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.2098 USD/h 1.2368 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.318 USD/h 1.2368 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1247 USD/h 1.2588 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.4359 USD/h 1.2588 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.4684 USD/h 1.2589 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.4808 USD/h 1.2589 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.5299 USD/h 1.264 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.4144 USD/h 1.2683 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.2623 USD/h 1.2735 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.5432 USD/h 1.2929 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.3878 USD/h 1.3435 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.3518 USD/h 1.346 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.374 USD/h 1.346 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.1888 USD/h 1.3503 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2687 USD/h 1.3503 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.7418 USD/h 1.3503 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.2498 USD/h 1.3521 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.4998 USD/h 1.3731 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.7195 USD/h 1.4093 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.3733 USD/h 1.4665 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.6792 USD/h 1.4871 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.3831 USD/h 1.4988 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.4025 USD/h 1.6637 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.2771 USD/h 1.677 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
10.5
Scalability
65.62

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 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 high-memory virtual server featuring an eight-to-one RAM-to-vCPU ratio for memory-intensive enterprise applications and database workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highmem-16 is an x86_64 virtual machine featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and 128 GB of RAM, establishing a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8 GB per core. Powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.8 GHz across 8 physical cores, the instance includes AVX-512 support but lacks bundled local storage and GPU accelerators. Benchmark data places its multi-core CPU performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently in the average tier, while single-core performance is relatively weak. This hardware profile is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-bound workloads that do not require local NVMe storage. It is well-suited for database hosting, caching layers, enterprise applications, and memory-intensive data processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.79Score
      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) 1,428,803 ops/sec 1,930,206 ops/sec 0.74 50.00% 50.00% -14.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 8,842,053 ops/sec 11,792,140 ops/sec 0.73 20.00% 20.00% -6.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,679 2,407 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 98,527 MB/sec 108,555 MB/sec 0.9 10.00% 10.00% -1.00%
      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: 1,427

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 8,666

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 15,630
      Compression
      		 216,322
      Encryption
      		 6,853
      Extended Instructions
      		 13,066
      Floating Point Maths
      		 26,748
      Integer Maths
      		 49,758
      Physics
      		 1,584
      Prime Numbers
      		 81
      Single Threaded
      		 1,994
      String Sorting
      		 25,871

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,679
      Database Operations
      		 5,733
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,163
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,174
      Memory Write
      		 10,546

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 276.76 297.23 1.07×
      bitops
      		 126,838 1,031,334 8.13×
      branch
      		 133,107 1,687,060 12.67×
      funccall
      		 616.12 5,036 8.17×
      funcret
      		 11,061 126,498 11.44×
      hash
      		 147,105 1,694,405 11.52×
      intmath
      		 59,368 584,926 9.85×
      nop
      		 183,278 1,301,652 7.10×
      prime
      		 383,318 3,326,001 8.68×
      rotate
      		 94,877 812,165 8.56×
      str
      		 870,266 7,322,518 8.41×
      wcs
      		 583,883 4,210,706 7.21×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,723 20,397 7.49×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 695.79 6,913 9.94×
      zlib
      		 46.61 665.83 14.29×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 40,506 311,969 7.70×
      clone
      		 461.95 2,557 5.54×
      context
      		 4,589 55,627 12.12×
      cpu-sched
      		 68.43 1,036 15.13×
      eventfd
      		 49,814 572,674 11.50×
      fault
      		 16,147 148,955 9.22×
      fork
      		 5,435 46,686 8.59×
      getrandom
      		 47,994 437,036 9.11×
      hrtimers
      		 126,612 1,578,205 12.46×
      mprotect
      		 1,250,345 4,144,182 3.31×
      mtx
      		 13,687,124 438,819,495 32.06×
      munmap
      		 3,745 33,938 9.06×
      null
      		 689,725 6,936,716 10.06×
      pipe
      		 842,221 9,376,173 11.13×
      priv-instr
      		 792,682 7,841,846 9.89×
      resched
      		 5,643,167 904,745 0.16×
      switch
      		 72,796 3,771,028 51.80×
      timermix
      		 178,253 2,336,942 13.11×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 9,428 30,957 3.28×
      tsc
      		 744,738 8,797,047 11.81×
      usersyscall
      		 594,002 5,990,100 10.08×
      vdso
      		 89,093,264 910,830,179 10.22×
      vfork
      		 36,196 227,867 6.30×
      x86syscall
      		 7,920,455 87,947,348 11.10×
      yield
      		 13,403,920 13,864,084 1.03×
      zero
      		 4,245,144 39,865,740 9.39×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,379 147,768 10.28×
      expmath
      		 2,797 32,773 11.72×
      fma
      		 619,578 8,617,740 13.91×
      fp
      		 193.94 1,581 8.15×
      fractal
      		 4.8 57 11.88×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,981 35,268 11.83×
      logmath
      		 4,701 54,397 11.57×
      matrix
      		 3,408 40,825 11.98×
      matrix-3d
      		 646.91 3,668 5.67×
      monte-carlo
      		 237.28 2,586 10.90×
      mpfr
      		 1,369 11,721 8.56×
      powmath
      		 1,638 19,439 11.87×
      trig
      		 1,909 19,386 10.16×
      veccmp
      		 19,822 152,206 7.68×
      vecfp
      		 1,480 14,582 9.85×
      vecmath
      		 3,161 36,199 11.45×
      vecshuf
      		 645.81 5,607 8.68×
      vecwide
      		 30,958 286,030 9.24×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.8 64 8.21×
      bsearch
      		 239.38 2,593 10.83×
      bubblesort
      		 1 6.4 6.40×
      fibsearch
      		 279.97 2,771 9.90×
      heapsort
      		 9.2 84 9.13×
      hsearch
      		 7,018 64,330 9.17×
      insertionsort
      		 10.2 48 4.71×
      malloc
      		 2,434,411 24,512,521 10.07×
      mcontend
      		 121.91 3,307 27.13×
      mergesort
      		 26 288.79 11.11×
      qsort
      		 20 167 8.35×
      skiplist
      		 5,276 61,454 11.65×
      tree
      		 1.4 12.79 9.14×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 342,329 865,025 2.53×
      cachehammer
      		 364,230 5,279,696 14.50×
      cacheline
      		 61.89 1,010 16.32×
      l1cache
      		 271.32 1,964 7.24×
      memcpy
      		 393.73 3,095 7.86×
      memrate
      		 1.77 10.27 5.80×
      memthrash
      		 201.16 635.19 3.16×
      ptr-chase
      		 15,002,715 165,095,942 11.00×
      spinmem
      		 147.99 448.95 3.03×
      stream
      		 58.23 6,250 107.33×
      vm
      		 106,966 294,037 2.75×

      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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