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 0.2641 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
6.44 TB Storage
Spare SCore
13,297
(All-cores)
1,622
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1742009
Name
z3-highmem-16-highlssd
API Reference Object
-
Description
16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, 2 Local SSDs
Family
z3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
26
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-17T07:38:24.303039

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.3146 USD/h 2.3039 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
1.2457 USD/h 2.3039 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
1.2457 USD/h 2.3039 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
1.2457 USD/h 2.3039 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.2854 USD/h 2.396 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.4 USD/h 2.4191 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.8701 USD/h 2.4191 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.9032 USD/h 2.5112 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.9915 USD/h 2.5973 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.7273 USD/h 2.6264 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.3697 USD/h 2.7186 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.4702 USD/h 2.7186 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.4902 USD/h 2.8398 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.3226 USD/h 2.8798 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.2641 USD/h 2.9326 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.738 USD/h 2.9559 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.603 USD/h 3.0181 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.3325 USD/h 3.0198 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
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    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 featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and massive bundled NVMe storage for high-throughput database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-16-highlssd is a memory-optimized server designed for data-intensive workloads. It features 16 dedicated vCPUs powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor running at 2.7 GHz, paired with 128 GB of RAM and a substantial 6442 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. The server lacks GPU acceleration but leverages advanced CPU instructions, including Intel AMX and AVX-512. Benchmarks show balanced performance, with a Passmark CPU score of 21549.51 and a strong LLM text generation speed of 264.49 tokens/sec for small models. With a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8 GB per core and massive bundled storage, this server is highly cost-efficient for memory-heavy databases, caching systems, and local data processing tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.1Score
    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 1,917,050 ops/sec 1.3 50.00% 50.00% +14.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,144,677 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 1 20.00% 20.00% 0.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,124 2,417 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 100,012 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.91 10.00% 10.00% -0.94%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,420 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

    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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