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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 0.4607 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
12.9 TB Storage
Spare SCore
26581
(All-cores)
1622
(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
2026-07-29T01:14:38.088103

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.4607 USD/h 3.2927 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
1.2833 USD/h 3.2927 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
1.2833 USD/h 3.2927 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
1.2833 USD/h 3.2927 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.535 USD/h 3.4244 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.476 USD/h 3.4573 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
1.6698 USD/h 3.7085 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
1.1512 USD/h 3.7536 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.5157 USD/h 3.8853 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.8818 USD/h 3.8853 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.9223 USD/h 4.0621 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.5471 USD/h 4.1158 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.8463 USD/h 4.2284 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.673 USD/h 4.3134 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
1.4496 USD/h 4.3134 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.8342 USD/h 4.3136 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
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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 high-density memory and storage instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and massive local NVMe SSD capacity for data-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-32-highlssd is a memory-optimized and storage-focused server featuring 32 vCPUs, 256 GB of RAM, and 12,884 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor running at 2.7 GHz, this x86_64 instance includes Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512 support. Benchmark data indicates balanced performance, with a Passmark CPU score of 37,463.33, a Geekbench multi-core score of 14,066.0, and strong image processing capabilities. The server delivers a cached memory read bandwidth of 2,175.06 GB/sec and handles 35.61 million Redis SET operations per second. This high-density configuration provides qualitative cost efficiency by bundling massive local storage with a high memory-to-vCPU ratio. It is designed for memory-intensive databases, high-throughput data processing, and local caching workloads.

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    Average Price per Region

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.85Score
    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 1,896,415 ops/sec 2.54 50.00% 50.00% +59.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 23,319,543 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 2.02 20.00% 20.00% +15.10%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,182 2,411 0.905 10.00% 10.00% -0.99%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 124,321 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.16 10.00% 10.00% +1.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,422 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.03 10.00% 10.00% +0.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,707

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 14,066

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 37463
    Compression
    		 455370
    Encryption
    		 28199
    Extended Instructions
    		 31174
    Floating Point Maths
    		 90627
    Integer Maths
    		 127100
    Physics
    		 3502
    Prime Numbers
    		 210
    Single Threaded
    		 2422
    String Sorting
    		 61861

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2182
    Database Operations
    		 14624
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22419
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9362
    Memory Write
    		 8327

    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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