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 0.2607 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
2026-09-10T10:51:33.863149

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.2981 USD/h 2.2637 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
1.1737 USD/h 2.2637 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
1.1737 USD/h 2.2637 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
1.1737 USD/h 2.2637 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.2704 USD/h 2.3542 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.3762 USD/h 2.3769 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.9507 USD/h 2.3769 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.9869 USD/h 2.4674 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
1.085 USD/h 2.5496 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.7519 USD/h 2.5806 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.2607 USD/h 2.6712 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.4457 USD/h 2.6712 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.4657 USD/h 2.7927 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.3709 USD/h 2.8296 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.7338 USD/h 2.907 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.3401 USD/h 2.9654 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.5929 USD/h 2.9654 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.4215 USD/h 2.9656 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
102.73

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
176 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
176 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized server combining dedicated Intel Xeon processing with 9.6 TB of high-speed local NVMe SSD storage for data-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-22-highlssd is a memory-optimized and storage-focused server instance designed for data-intensive workloads. It is equipped with an Intel Xeon 8481C processor offering 22 vCPUs (11 physical cores) running at 2.7 GHz, paired with 176.0 GB of RAM and 9663 GB of local NVMe SSD storage across three drives. The CPU architecture supports advanced vector and matrix extensions, facilitating efficient cryptographic and integer operations. Benchmark data indicates solid performance, with a Passmark CPU score of 28161.46, a Redis SET performance of 24.07 million operations per second, and strong text generation speeds of 298.77 tokens per second on small LLM models. Lacking a dedicated GPU, this instance is qualitatively cost-effective for high-IOPS database hosting, large-scale caching, and memory-intensive enterprise applications requiring substantial, low-latency local storage.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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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 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.69 50.00% 50.00% +30.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 17,470,511 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.5 20.00% 20.00% +8.45%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,137 2,418 0.884 10.00% 10.00% -1.23%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 115,062 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 1.06 10.00% 10.00% +0.58%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,416 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,686

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 11,804

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 28161
    Compression
    		 318311
    Encryption
    		 19291
    Extended Instructions
    		 21746
    Floating Point Maths
    		 62332
    Integer Maths
    		 87147
    Physics
    		 3133
    Prime Numbers
    		 169
    Single Threaded
    		 2416
    String Sorting
    		 42985

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2137
    Database Operations
    		 10343
    Memory Latency
    		 73
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22286
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9210
    Memory Write
    		 8314

    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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