z3-highmem-176-standardlssd by Google Cloud Platform

z3-highmem-176-standardlssd is a 176 vCPUs, 1408 GB RAM, 12 Local SSDs server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 176 vCPUs, 1408 GiB of memory and 38.7 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 2.3436 USD per hour.
176 vCPU
1408 GiB Memory
38.7 TB Storage
Spare SCore
145,909
(All-cores)
1,621
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1742018
Name
z3-highmem-176-standardlssd
Description
176 vCPUs, 1408 GB RAM, 12 Local SSDs
Family
z3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-07T00:35:37.917832

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
2.86 USD/h 22.0548 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
13.0827 USD/h 22.0548 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
13.0827 USD/h 22.0548 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
13.0827 USD/h 22.0548 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
2.3436 USD/h 22.937 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
3.6243 USD/h 23.1576 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
6.017 USD/h 23.1576 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
9.1327 USD/h 24.0397 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
8.1333 USD/h 24.8549 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
6.2812 USD/h 25.1425 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
4.4689 USD/h 26.0247 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
4.7065 USD/h 26.0247 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
4.0281 USD/h 27.1944 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
4.1034 USD/h 27.5685 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
7.4098 USD/h 28.3062 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
2.5558 USD/h 28.3789 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
5.7742 USD/h 28.8918 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
2.7241 USD/h 28.9029 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
176
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
88
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
4 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
176 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
210 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
90
Scalability
51.14

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
1 TB
Memory Amount Actual
1 TB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    38652 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 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 platform featuring massive local NVMe storage and high-throughput multi-core processing for data-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseCompute Optimized

    Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-176-standardlssd is a memory-optimized server featuring 176 vCPUs across 88 physical Intel Xeon 8481C cores and 1408 GB of RAM. The instance includes 38652 GB of local NVMe SSD storage distributed across 12 drives, with no GPU acceleration. Benchmarks show top-tier multi-core CPU performance, exceptional memory bandwidth, and high-throughput Redis operations, while single-core metrics remain in the average tier. The processor supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX, enhancing cryptographic and matrix operations. This server is designed for memory-intensive and storage-heavy workloads, making it highly suitable for large databases, in-memory caches, and multi-threaded data processing tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    6.2Score
    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) 22,316,897 ops/sec 1,936,298 ops/sec 12 50.00% 50.00% +250.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 110,282,347 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 9.2 20.00% 20.00% +56.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,184 2,407 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 473,259 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 4.3 10.00% 10.00% +16.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,423 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,700

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 17,580

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 102,550
    Compression
    		 2,342,589
    Encryption
    		 150,263
    Extended Instructions
    		 162,022
    Floating Point Maths
    		 496,997
    Integer Maths
    		 696,471
    Physics
    		 13,881
    Prime Numbers
    		 978
    Single Threaded
    		 2,423
    String Sorting
    		 309,439

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,184
    Database Operations
    		 30,693
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,364
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,349
    Memory Write
    		 7,141

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 153.94 46.32 0.30×
    bitops
    		 124,808 13,129,327 105.20×
    branch
    		 116,003 15,814,955 136.33×
    funccall
    		 623.36 66,738 107.06×
    funcret
    		 10,472 1,458,887 139.31×
    hash
    		 148,654 19,028,748 128.01×
    intmath
    		 54,312 5,594,092 103.00×
    nop
    		 224,736 16,166,204 71.93×
    prime
    		 400,641 37,727,274 94.17×
    rotate
    		 83,744 7,849,995 93.74×
    str
    		 774,005 86,996,344 112.40×
    wcs
    		 549,835 52,811,578 96.05×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,834 231,128 81.56×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 699.41 69,440 99.28×
    zlib
    		 61.89 7,062 114.10×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 21,686 211,534 9.75×
    clone
    		 479.73 14,848 30.95×
    context
    		 4,380 633,544 144.63×
    cpu-sched
    		 62.62 10,443 166.77×
    eventfd
    		 56,888 2,400,634 42.20×
    fault
    		 25,235 180,166 7.14×
    fork
    		 4,857 54,683 11.26×
    getrandom
    		 49,704 5,971,634 120.14×
    hrtimers
    		 299,218 18,597,807 62.15×
    mprotect
    		 589,465 15,683,882 26.61×
    mtx
    		 11,606,609 4,316,814,436 371.93×
    munmap
    		 3,814 66,657 17.48×
    null
    		 749,240 100,978,830 134.77×
    pipe
    		 670,831 87,802,177 130.89×
    priv-instr
    		 697,030 8,611,494 12.35×
    resched
    		 9,949,494 21,972,127 2.21×
    switch
    		 75,548 40,510,396 536.22×
    timermix
    		 197,892 26,742,630 135.14×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,502 148,843 27.05×
    tsc
    		 488,270 70,555,592 144.50×
    usersyscall
    		 592,351 8,686,736 14.66×
    vdso
    		 75,694,594 10,284,634,012 135.87×
    vfork
    		 26,745 112,701 4.21×
    x86syscall
    		 8,376,511 1,226,754,921 146.45×
    yield
    		 153,344,807 171,293,593 1.12×
    zero
    		 5,410,325 740,859,486 136.93×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 13,594 1,489,503 109.57×
    expmath
    		 2,931 366,985 125.19×
    fma
    		 1,160,111 128,967,000 111.17×
    fp
    		 258.18 33,789 130.87×
    fractal
    		 5.8 729.94 125.85×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,380 419,588 124.13×
    logmath
    		 4,364 602,115 137.96×
    matrix
    		 5,061 481,006 95.04×
    matrix-3d
    		 666.57 14,975 22.47×
    monte-carlo
    		 246.99 33,078 133.93×
    mpfr
    		 1,454 129,038 88.78×
    powmath
    		 1,629 212,144 130.20×
    trig
    		 2,216 234,199 105.67×
    veccmp
    		 20,622 1,922,861 93.25×
    vecfp
    		 1,839 188,701 102.61×
    vecmath
    		 3,234 391,962 121.21×
    vecshuf
    		 3,220 529,161 164.32×
    vecwide
    		 63,655 6,648,308 104.44×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 7.4 726.58 98.19×
    bsearch
    		 234.56 26,020 110.93×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 70.4 88.00×
    fibsearch
    		 263.81 27,223 103.19×
    heapsort
    		 8.4 897.78 106.88×
    hsearch
    		 6,828 674,180 98.73×
    insertionsort
    		 10.6 784.79 74.04×
    malloc
    		 2,559,341 110,537,719 43.19×
    mcontend
    		 52.86 23,611 446.66×
    mergesort
    		 25.6 2,884 112.65×
    qsort
    		 18.4 1,995 108.40×
    skiplist
    		 4,572 619,077 135.42×
    tree
    		 1.4 105.57 75.41×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 226,691 10,917,358 48.16×
    cachehammer
    		 186,714 9,368,597 50.18×
    cacheline
    		 56.76 2,409 42.43×
    l1cache
    		 904.27 23,875 26.40×
    memcpy
    		 372.53 31,039 83.32×
    memrate
    		 0.12 16.54 137.83×
    memthrash
    		 405.27 1,133 2.80×
    ptr-chase
    		 29,768,297 1,367,829,586 45.95×
    spinmem
    		 218.19 8,047 36.88×
    stream
    		 3.47 15,419 4443.59×
    vm
    		 94,983 310,944 3.27×

    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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