z3-highmem-22-highlssd by Google Cloud Platform

z3-highmem-22-highlssd is a 22 vCPUs, 176 GB RAM, 3 Local SSDs server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 22 vCPUs, 176 GiB of memory and 9.66 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3719 USD per hour.
22 vCPU
176 GiB Memory
9.66 TB Storage
Spare SCore
18,271
(All-cores)
1,623
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1742010
Name
z3-highmem-22-highlssd
Description
22 vCPUs, 176 GB RAM, 3 Local SSDs
Family
z3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
28
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T13:42:08.792378

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.4222 USD/h 3.25 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
1.6691 USD/h 3.25 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
1.6691 USD/h 3.25 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
1.6691 USD/h 3.25 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.3824 USD/h 3.38 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.536 USD/h 3.4125 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
1.2188 USD/h 3.4125 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
1.2651 USD/h 3.5425 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
1.3292 USD/h 3.6641 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
1.026 USD/h 3.705 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.5738 USD/h 3.835 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.7291 USD/h 3.835 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.6574 USD/h 4.0059 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.5001 USD/h 4.0625 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.3719 USD/h 4.1293 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
1.0934 USD/h 4.1695 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.8506 USD/h 4.2575 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.4453 USD/h 4.2601 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
22
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
11
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
528 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
352 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
22 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
11.3
Scalability
51.36

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
176 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
176 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    9663 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 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 high-density memory and storage configuration featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing and massive local NVMe SSD capacity for demanding database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-22-highlssd is a memory-optimized server configured with 22 dedicated vCPUs and 176.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor at 2.7 GHz. It features a substantial local storage capacity of 9663 GB across three NVMe SSDs, with no integrated GPUs. Performance benchmarks show solid mid-range capabilities, including a PassMark CPU score of 28161.46 and a Redis SET throughput of 24.07 million operations per second. It also exhibits strong text generation speeds of 298.77 tokens per second for small LLM models. This instance is highly efficient for workloads requiring a balance of high memory capacity and fast, dense local storage without the overhead of external disks. It is best suited for database operations, caching systems, and high-throughput data processing.

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.4Score
    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) 3,240,570 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.7 50.00% 50.00% +30.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 17,470,511 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.4 20.00% 20.00% +7.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,137 2,416 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 115,062 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,416 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,686

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 11,804

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 28,161
    Compression
    		 318,311
    Encryption
    		 19,291
    Extended Instructions
    		 21,746
    Floating Point Maths
    		 62,332
    Integer Maths
    		 87,147
    Physics
    		 3,133
    Prime Numbers
    		 169
    Single Threaded
    		 2,416
    String Sorting
    		 42,985

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,137
    Database Operations
    		 10,343
    Memory Latency
    		 73
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,286
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,210
    Memory Write
    		 8,314

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 213.79 172.47 0.81×
    bitops
    		 124,573 1,653,454 13.27×
    branch
    		 115,975 1,985,640 17.12×
    funccall
    		 623.57 8,928 14.32×
    funcret
    		 10,587 181,410 17.14×
    hash
    		 148,399 2,391,292 16.11×
    intmath
    		 54,031 712,628 13.19×
    nop
    		 222,289 2,006,831 9.03×
    prime
    		 400,033 5,180,194 12.95×
    rotate
    		 83,705 983,794 11.75×
    str
    		 786,748 12,434,481 15.80×
    wcs
    		 579,177 7,785,822 13.44×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,834 29,917 10.56×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 703.79 10,047 14.28×
    zlib
    		 32.74 882.47 26.95×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 41,390 363,795 8.79×
    clone
    		 458.63 3,456 7.53×
    context
    		 4,379 79,844 18.23×
    cpu-sched
    		 65.63 1,416 21.57×
    eventfd
    		 56,937 836,281 14.69×
    fault
    		 25,024 245,571 9.81×
    fork
    		 5,634 67,144 11.92×
    getrandom
    		 49,536 798,110 16.11×
    hrtimers
    		 247,393 2,700,443 10.92×
    mprotect
    		 1,098,181 6,201,538 5.65×
    mtx
    		 13,141,486 634,733,952 48.30×
    munmap
    		 4,288 51,290 11.96×
    null
    		 750,083 12,927,734 17.24×
    pipe
    		 698,786 16,042,955 22.96×
    priv-instr
    		 698,833 10,167,788 14.55×
    resched
    		 9,489,033 1,476,427 0.16×
    switch
    		 85,153 5,753,865 67.57×
    timermix
    		 198,933 3,627,430 18.23×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 10,206 41,956 4.11×
    tsc
    		 487,460 8,806,329 18.07×
    usersyscall
    		 592,881 8,923,690 15.05×
    vdso
    		 72,228,648 1,202,428,522 16.65×
    vfork
    		 34,951 274,443 7.85×
    x86syscall
    		 8,378,219 154,886,312 18.49×
    yield
    		 18,898,955 20,541,984 1.09×
    zero
    		 5,408,921 96,218,011 17.79×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 13,579 193,240 14.23×
    expmath
    		 2,924 47,303 16.18×
    fma
    		 1,161,373 17,955,939 15.46×
    fp
    		 258.42 4,412 17.07×
    fractal
    		 5.8 93.01 16.04×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,381 54,208 16.03×
    logmath
    		 4,371 75,917 17.37×
    matrix
    		 5,069 61,972 12.23×
    matrix-3d
    		 669.93 3,239 4.83×
    monte-carlo
    		 246.94 4,373 17.71×
    mpfr
    		 1,453 17,923 12.34×
    powmath
    		 1,626 27,254 16.76×
    trig
    		 2,213 32,360 14.62×
    veccmp
    		 20,563 266,807 12.98×
    vecfp
    		 1,838 23,376 12.72×
    vecmath
    		 3,230 51,458 15.93×
    vecshuf
    		 3,221 66,562 20.66×
    vecwide
    		 63,535 903,279 14.22×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 7.4 96.8 13.08×
    bsearch
    		 241.66 3,334 13.80×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 13.2 16.50×
    fibsearch
    		 266.41 3,488 13.09×
    heapsort
    		 8.4 123.4 14.69×
    hsearch
    		 6,871 93,862 13.66×
    insertionsort
    		 10.6 104.6 9.87×
    malloc
    		 2,487,458 34,639,206 13.93×
    mcontend
    		 100.33 3,479 34.68×
    mergesort
    		 25.8 407.19 15.78×
    qsort
    		 18.4 282.59 15.36×
    skiplist
    		 4,565 79,707 17.46×
    tree
    		 1.4 17.59 12.56×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 278,534 800,767 2.87×
    cachehammer
    		 204,904 3,272,979 15.97×
    cacheline
    		 61.32 1,234 20.12×
    l1cache
    		 906.64 3,869 4.27×
    memcpy
    		 371.38 3,988 10.74×
    memrate
    		 0.12 2.34 19.50×
    memthrash
    		 213.5 641.67 3.01×
    ptr-chase
    		 29,297,984 193,259,967 6.60×
    spinmem
    		 213.19 943.7 4.43×
    stream
    		 14.58 1,993 136.70×
    vm
    		 102,790 294,272 2.86×

    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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