z3-highmem-22-standardlssd by Google Cloud Platform

z3-highmem-22-standardlssd is a 22 vCPUs, 176 GB RAM, 2 Local SSDs server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 22 vCPUs, 176 GiB of memory and 6.44 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3369 USD per hour.
22 vCPU
176 GiB Memory
6.44 TB Storage
Spare SCore
18,279
(All-cores)
1,623
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1742015
Name
z3-highmem-22-standardlssd
Description
22 vCPUs, 176 GB RAM, 2 Local SSDs
Family
z3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T21:12:47.940199

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.3794 USD/h 2.9212 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
1.5002 USD/h 2.9212 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
1.5002 USD/h 2.9212 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
1.5002 USD/h 2.9212 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.3437 USD/h 3.0381 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.4817 USD/h 3.0673 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
1.1294 USD/h 3.0673 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
1.1723 USD/h 3.1841 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
1.194 USD/h 3.2926 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.9221 USD/h 3.3302 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.5154 USD/h 3.4471 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.6555 USD/h 3.4471 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.5912 USD/h 3.6015 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.4496 USD/h 3.6515 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.3369 USD/h 3.7413 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.9833 USD/h 3.7487 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.7647 USD/h 3.8268 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.4001 USD/h 3.8286 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
    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 instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and high-capacity local NVMe SSD storage for demanding database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-22-standardlssd is an x86_64 server instance designed for memory-intensive and storage-heavy workloads. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor operating at 2.7 GHz, it provides 22 dedicated vCPUs across 11 physical cores, paired with 176 GB of system memory and 6442 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. The CPU architecture supports advanced instruction sets such as AVX-512 and Intel AMX for matrix operations. In performance tests, the instance delivers average multi-core CPU and memory bandwidth results, but shows strong capability in small-model LLM text generation at 321.65 tokens per second. With a high memory-to-vCPU ratio and substantial local storage, this instance is optimized for database operations, Redis caching, software compilation, and memory-bound data processing tasks.

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.3Score
    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) 3,219,105 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.7 50.00% 50.00% +30.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,931,715 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.3 20.00% 20.00% +5.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,032 2,416 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 108,009 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,418 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,658

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 11,688

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 27,969
    Compression
    		 312,424
    Encryption
    		 19,328
    Extended Instructions
    		 21,754
    Floating Point Maths
    		 62,316
    Integer Maths
    		 87,389
    Physics
    		 2,953
    Prime Numbers
    		 159
    Single Threaded
    		 2,418
    String Sorting
    		 42,880

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,032
    Database Operations
    		 9,861
    Memory Latency
    		 77
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,421
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8,778
    Memory Write
    		 7,527

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 216.57 176.33 0.81×
    bitops
    		 124,814 1,653,555 13.25×
    branch
    		 116,008 1,985,908 17.12×
    funccall
    		 624.3 8,811 14.11×
    funcret
    		 10,438 181,661 17.40×
    hash
    		 148,457 2,390,882 16.10×
    intmath
    		 54,090 706,264 13.06×
    nop
    		 222,564 1,983,284 8.91×
    prime
    		 399,678 5,177,720 12.95×
    rotate
    		 83,700 987,236 11.79×
    str
    		 758,267 12,950,041 17.08×
    wcs
    		 578,693 7,757,350 13.40×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,836 29,937 10.56×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 703.13 10,043 14.28×
    zlib
    		 49.72 925.63 18.62×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 41,623 369,668 8.88×
    clone
    		 447.52 3,672 8.20×
    context
    		 4,381 79,886 18.23×
    cpu-sched
    		 67.36 1,424 21.15×
    eventfd
    		 58,276 840,826 14.43×
    fault
    		 25,031 256,043 10.23×
    fork
    		 5,756 67,476 11.72×
    getrandom
    		 49,478 797,581 16.12×
    hrtimers
    		 172,043 2,755,732 16.02×
    mprotect
    		 1,181,608 6,200,834 5.25×
    mtx
    		 10,656,469 604,399,455 56.72×
    munmap
    		 4,334 52,134 12.03×
    null
    		 750,486 12,930,869 17.23×
    pipe
    		 679,682 15,343,431 22.57×
    priv-instr
    		 698,893 10,063,757 14.40×
    resched
    		 9,441,647 2,247,176 0.24×
    switch
    		 80,673 5,756,346 71.35×
    timermix
    		 194,398 3,674,017 18.90×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 7,922 43,330 5.47×
    tsc
    		 485,877 8,801,980 18.12×
    usersyscall
    		 596,120 8,836,669 14.82×
    vdso
    		 72,240,317 1,199,145,718 16.60×
    vfork
    		 34,802 264,908 7.61×
    x86syscall
    		 8,384,061 154,900,721 18.48×
    yield
    		 19,183,390 20,892,719 1.09×
    zero
    		 5,408,866 96,161,830 17.78×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 13,591 192,729 14.18×
    expmath
    		 2,940 47,299 16.09×
    fma
    		 1,162,917 17,934,325 15.42×
    fp
    		 258.61 4,419 17.09×
    fractal
    		 5.8 93.01 16.04×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,395 54,169 15.95×
    logmath
    		 4,373 75,956 17.37×
    matrix
    		 4,901 61,351 12.52×
    matrix-3d
    		 659.21 3,393 5.15×
    monte-carlo
    		 246.88 4,373 17.71×
    mpfr
    		 1,452 17,866 12.30×
    powmath
    		 1,624 27,244 16.78×
    trig
    		 2,218 32,459 14.64×
    veccmp
    		 20,606 267,901 13.00×
    vecfp
    		 1,838 23,353 12.70×
    vecmath
    		 3,233 51,416 15.90×
    vecshuf
    		 3,226 66,536 20.63×
    vecwide
    		 63,556 905,800 14.25×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 7.4 97 13.11×
    bsearch
    		 241.79 3,386 14.00×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 13.2 16.50×
    fibsearch
    		 264.87 3,460 13.06×
    heapsort
    		 8.4 123.4 14.69×
    hsearch
    		 7,077 96,670 13.66×
    insertionsort
    		 10.6 105.2 9.92×
    malloc
    		 2,508,408 35,044,191 13.97×
    mcontend
    		 96.44 3,421 35.47×
    mergesort
    		 25.8 407.59 15.80×
    qsort
    		 18.4 281.39 15.29×
    skiplist
    		 4,566 79,724 17.46×
    tree
    		 1.4 17.59 12.56×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 282,702 807,357 2.86×
    cachehammer
    		 204,194 3,274,568 16.04×
    cacheline
    		 64.16 1,264 19.71×
    l1cache
    		 918.4 3,895 4.24×
    memcpy
    		 372.86 3,872 10.39×
    memrate
    		 0.12 2.35 19.58×
    memthrash
    		 191.97 664.86 3.46×
    ptr-chase
    		 29,395,189 193,338,715 6.58×
    spinmem
    		 214.99 988.22 4.60×
    stream
    		 14.6 2,014 137.97×
    vm
    		 102,137 294,289 2.88×

    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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