z3-highmem-32-highlssd by Google Cloud Platform

z3-highmem-32-highlssd is a 32 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM, 4 Local SSDs server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 12.9 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.5146 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
12.9 TB Storage
Spare SCore
26,581
(All-cores)
1,622
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1742011
Name
z3-highmem-32-highlssd
Description
32 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM, 4 Local SSDs
Family
z3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T04:16:31.593269

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.5691 USD/h 4.6077 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
2.6029 USD/h 4.6077 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
2.6029 USD/h 4.6077 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
2.6029 USD/h 4.6077 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.5146 USD/h 4.792 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.7212 USD/h 4.8381 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
1.7403 USD/h 4.8381 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
1.8064 USD/h 5.0224 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
1.7907 USD/h 5.1945 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
1.3814 USD/h 5.2528 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.8942 USD/h 5.4371 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.9819 USD/h 5.4371 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.8856 USD/h 5.6797 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.7795 USD/h 5.7597 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.5282 USD/h 5.8652 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
1.4735 USD/h 5.9117 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
1.206 USD/h 6.0361 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.5987 USD/h 6.0396 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 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
16.4
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    12884 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 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 combining dedicated Intel Xeon processing with massive local NVMe SSD storage for data-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-32-highlssd is a memory-optimized server configured with 32 vCPUs and 256 GB of RAM, driven by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor with a 2.7 GHz clock speed. This instance features 12,884 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, making it highly capable for storage-intensive workloads. It supports advanced instruction sets including AVX-512 and Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Performance benchmarks indicate average multi-core CPU capabilities alongside strong results in image processing and small-model LLM inference. The high ratio of memory to vCPUs, combined with massive local storage capacity, provides a cost-efficient profile for resource-dense deployments. This server is designed for demanding workloads such as large-scale databases, in-memory caching, and data-intensive analytical processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.8Score
    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) 4,813,196 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 2.5 50.00% 50.00% +58.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 23,319,543 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.9 20.00% 20.00% +14.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,182 2,416 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 124,321 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,422 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,707

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 14,066

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 37,463
    Compression
    		 455,370
    Encryption
    		 28,199
    Extended Instructions
    		 31,174
    Floating Point Maths
    		 90,627
    Integer Maths
    		 127,100
    Physics
    		 3,502
    Prime Numbers
    		 210
    Single Threaded
    		 2,422
    String Sorting
    		 61,861

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,182
    Database Operations
    		 14,624
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,419
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,362
    Memory Write
    		 8,327

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 201.33 164.98 0.82×
    bitops
    		 124,565 2,408,747 19.34×
    branch
    		 115,946 2,886,372 24.89×
    funccall
    		 623.86 12,905 20.68×
    funcret
    		 10,478 268,444 25.62×
    hash
    		 148,622 3,479,660 23.41×
    intmath
    		 54,083 1,031,112 19.07×
    nop
    		 222,546 2,920,607 13.12×
    prime
    		 399,804 7,514,227 18.79×
    rotate
    		 83,739 1,423,128 16.99×
    str
    		 725,712 18,820,905 25.93×
    wcs
    		 572,429 11,302,630 19.75×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,836 43,523 15.34×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 682.51 14,195 20.80×
    zlib
    		 41.93 1,274 30.39×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 39,348 405,563 10.31×
    clone
    		 491.42 4,278 8.71×
    context
    		 4,379 116,026 26.50×
    cpu-sched
    		 69.13 2,069 29.93×
    eventfd
    		 56,636 1,121,129 19.80×
    fault
    		 24,723 296,237 11.98×
    fork
    		 5,522 88,543 16.03×
    getrandom
    		 49,622 1,160,800 23.39×
    hrtimers
    		 132,884 3,992,804 30.05×
    mprotect
    		 1,172,411 8,934,087 7.62×
    mtx
    		 12,076,052 861,901,268 71.37×
    munmap
    		 4,271 70,037 16.40×
    null
    		 748,357 18,687,594 24.97×
    pipe
    		 699,028 24,646,894 35.26×
    priv-instr
    		 691,037 13,807,188 19.98×
    resched
    		 12,457,130 2,974,433 0.24×
    switch
    		 78,030 8,440,357 108.17×
    timermix
    		 195,382 5,272,605 26.99×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 9,730 57,206 5.88×
    tsc
    		 487,654 12,805,614 26.26×
    usersyscall
    		 592,711 12,417,544 20.95×
    vdso
    		 72,258,113 1,746,440,606 24.17×
    vfork
    		 34,115 280,238 8.21×
    x86syscall
    		 8,377,152 225,194,840 26.88×
    yield
    		 26,777,503 31,466,434 1.18×
    zero
    		 5,411,649 138,647,647 25.62×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 13,586 280,655 20.66×
    expmath
    		 2,938 68,828 23.42×
    fma
    		 1,162,324 26,078,162 22.44×
    fp
    		 258.51 6,449 24.95×
    fractal
    		 5.8 135.43 23.35×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,381 78,759 23.29×
    logmath
    		 4,371 110,470 25.27×
    matrix
    		 5,067 95,577 18.86×
    matrix-3d
    		 668.05 3,463 5.18×
    monte-carlo
    		 246.94 6,462 26.17×
    mpfr
    		 1,449 26,023 17.96×
    powmath
    		 1,625 39,674 24.41×
    trig
    		 2,218 47,191 21.28×
    veccmp
    		 20,604 391,173 18.98×
    vecfp
    		 1,838 34,306 18.67×
    vecmath
    		 3,231 74,747 23.13×
    vecshuf
    		 3,220 96,881 30.08×
    vecwide
    		 63,516 1,326,890 20.89×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 7.4 141 19.05×
    bsearch
    		 241.54 4,872 20.17×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 19.2 24.00×
    fibsearch
    		 264.55 4,934 18.65×
    heapsort
    		 8.4 179.6 21.38×
    hsearch
    		 7,047 141,378 20.06×
    insertionsort
    		 10.6 153.2 14.45×
    malloc
    		 2,510,525 44,859,808 17.87×
    mcontend
    		 101.32 4,960 48.95×
    mergesort
    		 25.8 594.19 23.03×
    qsort
    		 18.4 410.39 22.30×
    skiplist
    		 4,568 115,842 25.36×
    tree
    		 1.4 22.78 16.27×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 270,245 980,250 3.63×
    cachehammer
    		 202,136 4,153,313 20.55×
    cacheline
    		 62.96 2,732 43.40×
    l1cache
    		 895.53 5,634 6.29×
    memcpy
    		 372.81 5,659 15.18×
    memrate
    		 0.12 3.38 28.17×
    memthrash
    		 226.68 788.69 3.48×
    ptr-chase
    		 29,153,662 263,759,470 9.05×
    spinmem
    		 215.99 1,449 6.71×
    stream
    		 14.18 2,945 207.70×
    vm
    		 93,106 295,677 3.18×

    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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