n4-highcpu-16 by Google Cloud Platform

n4-highcpu-16 is a 16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.086 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
14,630
(All-cores)
1,781
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1750020
Name
n4-highcpu-16
Description
16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM
Family
n4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
20
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-21T13:11:47.825451

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.187 USD/h 0.6123 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.3455 USD/h 0.6123 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.3465 USD/h 0.6123 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.3465 USD/h 0.6123 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.3465 USD/h 0.6123 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1543 USD/h 0.6368 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.17 USD/h 0.6368 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.1356 USD/h 0.6429 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1578 USD/h 0.6429 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.2536 USD/h 0.6429 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.2436 USD/h 0.6674 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.2073 USD/h 0.6736 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0981 USD/h 0.6742 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1339 USD/h 0.6742 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.1618 USD/h 0.6742 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.2503 USD/h 0.6742 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.2944 USD/h 0.6742 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.3381 USD/h 0.6897 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2697 USD/h 0.698 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.2695 USD/h 0.709 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.1398 USD/h 0.7103 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.2315 USD/h 0.7103 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.141 USD/h 0.7225 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1415 USD/h 0.7225 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.4303 USD/h 0.7225 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1577 USD/h 0.7361 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.4201 USD/h 0.7361 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.3111 USD/h 0.7409 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.3259 USD/h 0.744 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.4133 USD/h 0.7554 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.353 USD/h 0.7654 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.3026 USD/h 0.7863 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.4136 USD/h 0.7863 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.4504 USD/h 0.7863 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.2555 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.3716 USD/h 0.8021 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.2387 USD/h 0.8234 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.086 USD/h 0.8566 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.2207 USD/h 0.8756 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1429 USD/h 0.9723 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1792 USD/h 0.9797 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, smx, est, ssse3, sdbg, fma, cx16, xtpr, pdcm, pcid, dca, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, cat_l3, cat_l2, cdp_l3, cdp_l2, ssbd, mba, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, cqm_llc, cqm_occup_llc, cqm_mbm_total, cqm_mbm_local, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, tsxldtrk, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
8.2
Scalability
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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

      A compute-dense x86_64 server featuring sixteen dedicated vCPUs and advanced matrix extensions for efficient processing of compute-bound workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n4-highcpu-16 is an x86_64 compute-optimized server featuring 16 dedicated Intel vCPUs (8 physical cores) and 32.0 GB of RAM, yielding a 2.0 GB per vCPU ratio. Lacking local storage and GPU accelerators, it relies on network storage. The processor features a 260 MB L3 cache and supports Intel AMX and AVX-512 instructions. In benchmarks, it achieves a Geekbench multi-core score of 11411.0, a stress-ng multi-core score of 14630.37, and processes Redis SET operations at 17.79 million operations per second. It also handles small-model LLM prompt processing at 1272.6 tokens per second. This instance is designed for compute-bound tasks, including software compilation, static web serving, and lightweight AI inference, offering a resource-dense profile that minimizes memory overhead costs.

      Economics

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.17Score
      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) 2,334,154 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 1.22 50.00% 50.00% +10.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,237,722 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 1.04 20.00% 20.00% +0.79%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,889 2,418 0.781 10.00% 10.00% -2.44%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 229,801 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 2.12 10.00% 10.00% +7.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,386 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.01 10.00% 10.00% +0.10%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,886

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 11,411

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 21470
      Compression
      		 229746
      Encryption
      		 13593
      Extended Instructions
      		 17007
      Floating Point Maths
      		 43584
      Integer Maths
      		 61382
      Physics
      		 3003
      Prime Numbers
      		 128
      Single Threaded
      		 2386
      String Sorting
      		 31334

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1889
      Database Operations
      		 7533
      Memory Latency
      		 74
      Memory Read Cached
      		 21477
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7076
      Memory Write
      		 6862

      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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