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t2a-standard-16 by Google Cloud Platform

t2a-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 0.2156 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
28983
(All-cores)
1813
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1220005
Name
t2a-standard-16
Description
16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM
Family
t2a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
15
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-23T04:55:44.660353

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.2623 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.3864 USD/h 0.6471 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2156 USD/h 0.7597 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Ampere
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N1
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, lrcpc, dcpop, asimddp, ssbs
Ecpus
16
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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 ARM-based instance featuring sixteen dedicated cores and balanced memory, optimized for multi-threaded workloads and web serving applications.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform t2a-standard-16 is an ARM-based general-purpose server instance featuring 16 dedicated physical cores powered by an Ampere Neoverse-N1 processor running at 3.0 GHz. It is configured with 64.0 GB of RAM, translating to 4.0 GB of memory per core, and contains no local storage or GPU accelerators. Benchmark data indicates average multi-core performance, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 9311.0 and a stress-ng multi-core score of 28983.31. However, single-core performance is a primary tradeoff, with Geekbench single-core and text processing scores falling into the bottom 25% tier. Memory bandwidth is stable, supporting 129.41 GB/sec for uncached large-block reads. This resource profile is suited for multi-threaded workloads, static web serving, and database operations, but is less optimal for single-threaded processing or intensive cryptographic tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.998Score
      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) 2,043,321 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.08 50.00% 50.00% +3.92%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,437,523 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.08 20.00% 20.00% +1.55%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,932 2,411 0.801 10.00% 10.00% -2.19%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 138,564 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.29 10.00% 10.00% +2.58%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,321 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.559 10.00% 10.00% -5.65%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,078

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 9,311

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 11603
      Compression
      		 90393
      Encryption
      		 2588
      Extended Instructions
      		 11897
      Floating Point Maths
      		 57256
      Integer Maths
      		 75425
      Physics
      		 1944
      Prime Numbers
      		 118
      Single Threaded
      		 1321
      String Sorting
      		 54221

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1932
      Database Operations
      		 10119
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 11291
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8925
      Memory Write
      		 14852

      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

      Alternatives

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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      t2a-standard-2 28 GiB0
      t2a-standard-4 416 GiB0
      t2a-standard-8 832 GiB0
      t2a-standard-32 32128 GiB0
      t2a-standard-48 48192 GiB0

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