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 0.5188 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
2026-10-06T01:45:00.080184

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.5716 USD/h 4.6077 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
2.6227 USD/h 4.6077 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
2.6227 USD/h 4.6077 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
2.6227 USD/h 4.6077 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.5188 USD/h 4.792 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.7613 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
2.0868 USD/h 5.1945 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
1.4546 USD/h 5.2528 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.6718 USD/h 5.4371 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.8545 USD/h 5.4371 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
1.0324 USD/h 5.6797 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.6793 USD/h 5.7597 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.5476 USD/h 5.8652 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
1.3421 USD/h 5.9117 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
1.206 USD/h 6.0361 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.6997 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
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 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

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    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 1,916,704 ops/sec 2.5 50.00% 50.00% +58.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 23,319,543 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 1.9 20.00% 20.00% +14.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,182 2,417 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 124,321 MB/sec 108,361 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
    		 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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