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 2.652 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
2026-09-22T20:48:00.264924Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
3.0329 USD/h 22.0548 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
13.2119 USD/h 22.0548 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
13.2119 USD/h 22.0548 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
13.2119 USD/h 22.0548 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
2.7576 USD/h 22.937 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
3.6574 USD/h 23.1576 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
8.6781 USD/h 23.1576 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
9.0079 USD/h 24.0397 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
11.0574 USD/h 24.8549 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
6.9606 USD/h 25.1425 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
2.652 USD/h 26.0247 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
4.5336 USD/h 26.0247 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
4.7325 USD/h 27.1944 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
3.2575 USD/h 27.5685 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
7.1219 USD/h 28.3062 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
2.9395 USD/h 28.3789 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
5.7742 USD/h 28.8918 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
3.7091 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
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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.

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    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    6.14Score
    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 1,919,696 ops/sec 11.6 50.00% 50.00% +241.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 110,282,347 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 9.4 20.00% 20.00% +56.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,184 2,418 0.903 10.00% 10.00% -1.02%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 473,259 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 4.37 10.00% 10.00% +15.90%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,423 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,700

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 17,580

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 102550
    Compression
    		 2342589
    Encryption
    		 150263
    Extended Instructions
    		 162022
    Floating Point Maths
    		 496997
    Integer Maths
    		 696471
    Physics
    		 13881
    Prime Numbers
    		 978
    Single Threaded
    		 2423
    String Sorting
    		 309439

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2184
    Database Operations
    		 30693
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22364
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9349
    Memory Write
    		 7141

    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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