n4-highmem-16 by Google Cloud Platform

n4-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 0.1559 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
12,846
(All-cores)
1,564
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1750012
Name
n4-highmem-16
Description
16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM
Family
n4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-03T01:22:20.375435

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.3066 USD/h 0.9522 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.5387 USD/h 0.9522 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.5688 USD/h 0.9522 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.5688 USD/h 0.9522 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.5688 USD/h 0.9522 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.2534 USD/h 0.9902 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.3086 USD/h 0.9902 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.2345 USD/h 0.9998 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.2458 USD/h 0.9998 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.4151 USD/h 0.9998 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.4417 USD/h 1.0379 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.3402 USD/h 1.0474 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.169 USD/h 1.0484 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.2196 USD/h 1.0484 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.2515 USD/h 1.0484 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.3548 USD/h 1.0484 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.4821 USD/h 1.0484 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.5549 USD/h 1.0724 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.4005 USD/h 1.0855 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.4191 USD/h 1.1025 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.254 USD/h 1.1045 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.3282 USD/h 1.1045 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.2322 USD/h 1.1235 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.2558 USD/h 1.1235 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.6404 USD/h 1.1235 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1844 USD/h 1.1446 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.6221 USD/h 1.1446 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.5092 USD/h 1.1521 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.5069 USD/h 1.1569 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.5845 USD/h 1.1747 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.5489 USD/h 1.1902 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.4495 USD/h 1.2228 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.614 USD/h 1.2228 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.6688 USD/h 1.2228 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.3793 USD/h 1.2378 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.5517 USD/h 1.2473 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.3712 USD/h 1.2804 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1559 USD/h 1.332 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.4004 USD/h 1.3616 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.2589 USD/h 1.5119 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.2937 USD/h 1.5235 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
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 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 memory-optimized virtual machine featuring a high memory-to-vCPU ratio and advanced matrix extensions for memory-intensive workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n4-highmem-16 is an x86_64 memory-optimized instance featuring 16 vCPUs (8 physical Intel cores) and 128 GB of RAM, providing 8 GB of memory per core. The processor includes a 260 MB L3 cache and supports Intel AMX and AVX-512 instruction sets. It lacks local storage and GPU acceleration. In benchmarks, the instance delivers a multi-core stress-ng score of 12846.34, a Redis SET throughput of 17.18 million operations per second, and a cached memory read bandwidth of 1084.69 GB/sec. The high memory-to-vCPU ratio makes it a cost-efficient option for memory-intensive workloads that do not require high compute-to-RAM scaling. It is well-suited for in-memory databases, caching layers, software compilation, and light CPU-based machine learning inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.15Score
      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) 2,327,094 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.21 50.00% 50.00% +10.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 11,371,279 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.973 20.00% 20.00% -0.55%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,899 2,418 0.785 10.00% 10.00% -2.39%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 225,927 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 2.09 10.00% 10.00% +7.65%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,374 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,836

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 10,971

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 21396
      Compression
      		 228513
      Encryption
      		 13590
      Extended Instructions
      		 17144
      Floating Point Maths
      		 43530
      Integer Maths
      		 60895
      Physics
      		 3008
      Prime Numbers
      		 127
      Single Threaded
      		 2374
      String Sorting
      		 31050

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1899
      Database Operations
      		 7314
      Memory Latency
      		 76
      Memory Read Cached
      		 21491
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7057
      Memory Write
      		 6646

      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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