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z3-highmem-16-highlssd by Google Cloud Platform

z3-highmem-16-highlssd is a 16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, 2 Local SSDs server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 6.44 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2304 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
6.44 TB Storage
Spare SCore
13297
(All-cores)
1622
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1742009
Name
z3-highmem-16-highlssd
Description
16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, 2 Local SSDs
Family
z3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
26
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-02T06:39:17.994126

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.2304 USD/h 1.6463 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.6416 USD/h 1.6463 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.6416 USD/h 1.6463 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.6416 USD/h 1.6463 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.2675 USD/h 1.7122 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.238 USD/h 1.7286 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.6915 USD/h 1.7286 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.7178 USD/h 1.7945 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.8349 USD/h 1.8543 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.5756 USD/h 1.8768 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.2579 USD/h 1.9427 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.4409 USD/h 1.9427 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.4612 USD/h 2.0311 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.2736 USD/h 2.0579 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.4232 USD/h 2.1142 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.3365 USD/h 2.1567 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.7248 USD/h 2.1567 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.4171 USD/h 2.1568 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8481C
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
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
105 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, vmx, 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, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, arat, vnmi, 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
    6442 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized server combining dedicated Intel Xeon processing with massive local NVMe SSD storage for high-throughput database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-16-highlssd is a memory-optimized and storage-intensive server instance designed for demanding data workloads. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C x86_64 processor running at 2.7 GHz, it provides 16 dedicated vCPUs across 8 physical cores and a large 105 MB L3 cache. The instance is configured with 128 GB of RAM and a substantial 6442 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, with no GPU accelerators. Benchmark results indicate average CPU and memory performance, highlighted by a Geekbench multi-core score of 10293.0 and a strong text generation speed of 264.49 tokens per second on small LLM models. With its high memory-to-vCPU ratio and massive local storage, this instance is highly cost-efficient for memory-heavy and I/O-intensive applications. It is ideally suited for database operations, caching layers, and high-throughput web serving.

    Economics

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    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.11Score
    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) 2,359,588 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.24 50.00% 50.00% +11.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,144,677 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.05 20.00% 20.00% +0.98%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,124 2,411 0.881 10.00% 10.00% -1.26%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 100,012 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.931 10.00% 10.00% -0.71%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,420 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,691

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 10,293

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 21550
    Compression
    		 228453
    Encryption
    		 14100
    Extended Instructions
    		 15575
    Floating Point Maths
    		 45343
    Integer Maths
    		 63584
    Physics
    		 2603
    Prime Numbers
    		 135
    Single Threaded
    		 2420
    String Sorting
    		 31551

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2124
    Database Operations
    		 7661
    Memory Latency
    		 73
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22341
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9264
    Memory Write
    		 8288

    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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