n2-standard-16 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-standard-16 is a 16 vCPUs 64 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.077 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
15,061
(All-cores)
1,839
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
901016
Name
n2-standard-16
Description
16 vCPUs 64 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18.43
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-04T00:40:08.373836

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.466 USD/h 0.7769 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.466 USD/h 0.7769 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.466 USD/h 0.7769 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.4662 USD/h 0.7769 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.5125 USD/h 0.8546 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.193 USD/h 0.8547 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.2804 USD/h 0.8547 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.077 USD/h 0.8553 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.2745 USD/h 0.8553 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.4097 USD/h 0.8553 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.4142 USD/h 0.8554 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.2282 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.4842 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.3256 USD/h 0.8996 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.1071 USD/h 0.9013 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.2276 USD/h 0.9013 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1556 USD/h 0.9168 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.2357 USD/h 0.9168 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0924 USD/h 0.9332 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.3232 USD/h 0.9332 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.3471 USD/h 0.9332 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.3563 USD/h 0.9332 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.3928 USD/h 0.937 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.3071 USD/h 0.9401 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1945 USD/h 0.944 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.4026 USD/h 0.9584 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2877 USD/h 0.9967 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.2609 USD/h 0.9977 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.2773 USD/h 0.9977 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.1401 USD/h 1.001 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1992 USD/h 1.001 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.55 USD/h 1.001 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.1852 USD/h 1.0023 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.3706 USD/h 1.0178 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.5333 USD/h 1.0447 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.2767 USD/h 1.0871 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.5035 USD/h 1.1024 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.284 USD/h 1.111 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.2985 USD/h 1.2333 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.2054 USD/h 1.2431 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
8.2
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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 balanced general-purpose virtual machine offering dedicated Intel Xeon processing and standard memory density for multi-threaded workloads.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-standard-16 is a general-purpose virtual machine featuring 16 vCPUs and 64 GB of RAM, powered by a dedicated 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processor. Operating on the x86_64 architecture with 8 physical cores and hyper-threading, it supports AVX-512 instructions but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks position this instance in the average tier for most compute and memory tasks, including a multi-core stress-ng score of 15060.78 and static web serving throughput of 12.34 GB/sec. However, it exhibits weak performance in single-threaded compression and medium-model LLM inference. Given its balanced resource allocation and qualitative cost profile, the instance is suited for general-purpose workloads, software compilation, and database operations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.78Score
      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) 1,442,408 ops/sec 1,930,206 ops/sec 0.74 50.00% 50.00% -14.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 8,715,033 ops/sec 11,792,140 ops/sec 0.72 20.00% 20.00% -6.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,488 2,412 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 91,410 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,015 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,173

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 7,239

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 15,562
      Compression
      		 222,260
      Encryption
      		 6,836
      Extended Instructions
      		 12,998
      Floating Point Maths
      		 26,702
      Integer Maths
      		 49,645
      Physics
      		 1,494
      Prime Numbers
      		 72
      Single Threaded
      		 2,015
      String Sorting
      		 25,840

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,488
      Database Operations
      		 5,689
      Memory Latency
      		 54
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,109
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,891
      Memory Write
      		 9,652

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 237.89 229.12 0.96×
      bitops
      		 108,362 993,785 9.17×
      branch
      		 154,223 1,867,169 12.11×
      funccall
      		 542.69 4,479 8.25×
      funcret
      		 11,336 129,049 11.38×
      hash
      		 125,961 1,444,858 11.47×
      intmath
      		 22,150 267,000 12.05×
      nop
      		 191,317 1,322,750 6.91×
      prime
      		 315,184 2,819,855 8.95×
      rotate
      		 96,613 1,066,013 11.03×
      str
      		 734,387 6,284,501 8.56×
      wcs
      		 463,992 4,078,575 8.79×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,435 19,014 7.81×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 597.33 5,520 9.24×
      zlib
      		 43.38 634.31 14.62×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 29,078 219,849 7.56×
      clone
      		 329.35 2,271 6.90×
      context
      		 2,587 24,013 9.28×
      cpu-sched
      		 64.86 988.18 15.24×
      eventfd
      		 50,316 443,835 8.82×
      fault
      		 10,700 105,320 9.84×
      fork
      		 3,914 33,805 8.64×
      getrandom
      		 44,736 436,428 9.76×
      hrtimers
      		 266,316 1,591,840 5.98×
      mprotect
      		 1,042,054 2,567,820 2.46×
      mtx
      		 8,266,681 420,253,051 50.84×
      munmap
      		 2,546 24,226 9.52×
      null
      		 289,338 2,413,440 8.34×
      pipe
      		 858,990 5,337,473 6.21×
      priv-instr
      		 558,546 5,037,506 9.02×
      resched
      		 3,063,844 657,478 0.21×
      switch
      		 85,605 2,642,880 30.87×
      timermix
      		 185,917 2,159,920 11.62×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 10,661 28,232 2.65×
      tsc
      		 995,941 11,110,967 11.16×
      usersyscall
      		 385,039 3,435,231 8.92×
      vdso
      		 83,098,870 934,514,108 11.25×
      vfork
      		 26,975 175,886 6.52×
      x86syscall
      		 3,289,445 27,735,940 8.43×
      yield
      		 8,440,575 9,134,778 1.08×
      zero
      		 2,006,733 17,094,094 8.52×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 15,729 147,427 9.37×
      expmath
      		 2,677 32,593 12.17×
      fma
      		 548,133 7,134,254 13.02×
      fp
      		 124.8 1,236 9.91×
      fractal
      		 5 57.8 11.56×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,801 34,923 12.47×
      logmath
      		 4,532 53,406 11.78×
      matrix
      		 3,031 38,307 12.64×
      matrix-3d
      		 627.43 2,979 4.75×
      monte-carlo
      		 139.37 1,237 8.88×
      mpfr
      		 1,209 10,392 8.60×
      powmath
      		 1,583 19,370 12.23×
      trig
      		 1,710 18,119 10.59×
      veccmp
      		 15,536 129,556 8.34×
      vecfp
      		 1,295 12,807 9.89×
      vecmath
      		 2,198 27,580 12.55×
      vecshuf
      		 564.07 4,842 8.58×
      vecwide
      		 22,724 205,376 9.04×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.2 67.2 9.33×
      bsearch
      		 241.19 2,233 9.26×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 6.4 8.00×
      fibsearch
      		 244.57 2,242 9.17×
      heapsort
      		 8.8 83.2 9.45×
      hsearch
      		 5,025 50,399 10.03×
      insertionsort
      		 8.2 64 7.80×
      malloc
      		 2,137,828 25,128,283 11.75×
      mcontend
      		 125.74 3,599 28.62×
      mergesort
      		 23.2 249.39 10.75×
      qsort
      		 14.8 135.6 9.16×
      skiplist
      		 4,880 55,511 11.37×
      tree
      		 1.4 9.59 6.85×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 344,584 701,519 2.04×
      cachehammer
      		 377,501 5,239,516 13.88×
      cacheline
      		 34.57 602.04 17.42×
      l1cache
      		 227.7 1,956 8.59×
      memcpy
      		 347.26 2,983 8.59×
      memrate
      		 1.37 9.16 6.69×
      memthrash
      		 118.29 567.97 4.80×
      ptr-chase
      		 25,953,208 167,649,362 6.46×
      spinmem
      		 219.79 681.12 3.10×
      stream
      		 33.59 4,428 131.82×
      vm
      		 55,761 293,828 5.27×

      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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