z3-highmem-8-highlssd by Google Cloud Platform

z3-highmem-8-highlssd is a 8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 1 Local SSDs server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 3.22 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1321 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
3.22 TB Storage
Spare SCore
6,645
(All-cores)
1,621
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1742008
Name
z3-highmem-8-highlssd
Description
8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 1 Local SSDs
Family
z3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
24
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T21:12:47.940384

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1496 USD/h 1.1519 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.5916 USD/h 1.1519 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.5916 USD/h 1.1519 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.5916 USD/h 1.1519 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1355 USD/h 1.198 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.19 USD/h 1.2095 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.4351 USD/h 1.2095 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.4516 USD/h 1.2556 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.471 USD/h 1.2986 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.3637 USD/h 1.3132 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.2033 USD/h 1.3593 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.2584 USD/h 1.3593 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.233 USD/h 1.4199 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1773 USD/h 1.4399 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.1321 USD/h 1.4663 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.3876 USD/h 1.4779 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.3015 USD/h 1.509 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1578 USD/h 1.5099 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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
4.1
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    3221 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 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 server featuring an Intel Xeon processor, 64 GB of RAM, and 3.2 TB of high-speed local NVMe storage.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-8-highlssd is an x86_64 server instance configured with 8 vCPUs, 64 GB of RAM, and a 3221 GB local NVMe SSD. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor running at 2.7 GHz, it features 4 physical cores with hyper-threading and a 105 MB L3 cache. The instance delivers average performance across standard benchmarks, including a Geekbench multi-core score of 6517.0 and a Redis SET throughput of 8.92 million operations per second. It supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX. While memory bandwidth and database operations perform in the middle tier, text generation for medium 7B LLM models is a notable bottleneck, scoring in the bottom 25% at 7.36 tokens per second. This server is designed for memory-optimized and storage-intensive workloads, such as database hosting, caching, and data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.64Score
    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) 1,175,776 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.63 50.00% 50.00% -21.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,116,474 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.51 20.00% 20.00% -13.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,027 2,416 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 63,573 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.58 10.00% 10.00% -5.30%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,419 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,694

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,517

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11,641
    Compression
    		 116,172
    Encryption
    		 7,077
    Extended Instructions
    		 7,995
    Floating Point Maths
    		 22,637
    Integer Maths
    		 31,567
    Physics
    		 1,525
    Prime Numbers
    		 71
    Single Threaded
    		 2,419
    String Sorting
    		 15,955

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,027
    Database Operations
    		 3,908
    Memory Latency
    		 73
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,422
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,298
    Memory Write
    		 8,153

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 211.51 185.56 0.88×
    bitops
    		 124,432 599,128 4.81×
    branch
    		 115,920 721,360 6.22×
    funccall
    		 625.36 3,255 5.21×
    funcret
    		 10,461 65,998 6.31×
    hash
    		 148,344 869,065 5.86×
    intmath
    		 54,058 261,619 4.84×
    nop
    		 221,983 725,716 3.27×
    prime
    		 399,162 1,889,047 4.73×
    rotate
    		 83,674 360,724 4.31×
    str
    		 787,186 4,478,219 5.69×
    wcs
    		 577,002 2,828,066 4.90×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,833 10,874 3.84×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 676.88 3,610 5.33×
    zlib
    		 48.13 315.15 6.55×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 44,891 218,829 4.87×
    clone
    		 463.39 1,415 3.05×
    context
    		 4,375 29,022 6.63×
    cpu-sched
    		 66.94 551.43 8.24×
    eventfd
    		 57,454 816,134 14.20×
    fault
    		 25,178 109,954 4.37×
    fork
    		 5,867 33,418 5.70×
    getrandom
    		 49,560 289,818 5.85×
    hrtimers
    		 128,293 1,048,548 8.17×
    mprotect
    		 1,071,055 2,282,838 2.13×
    mtx
    		 11,164,730 222,902,405 19.96×
    munmap
    		 4,366 24,038 5.51×
    null
    		 749,718 4,697,732 6.27×
    pipe
    		 672,985 5,830,473 8.66×
    priv-instr
    		 691,305 3,828,605 5.54×
    resched
    		 2,795,874 627,609 0.22×
    switch
    		 82,303 2,030,749 24.67×
    timermix
    		 195,958 1,297,183 6.62×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 9,855 17,553 1.78×
    tsc
    		 487,581 3,196,146 6.56×
    usersyscall
    		 590,937 3,309,628 5.60×
    vdso
    		 72,231,448 436,370,927 6.04×
    vfork
    		 36,221 163,170 4.50×
    x86syscall
    		 8,374,740 56,249,263 6.72×
    yield
    		 6,011,246 6,365,636 1.06×
    zero
    		 5,408,984 34,972,653 6.47×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 13,560 70,215 5.18×
    expmath
    		 2,932 17,156 5.85×
    fma
    		 1,160,969 6,523,666 5.62×
    fp
    		 258.79 1,610 6.22×
    fractal
    		 5.8 33.8 5.83×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,389 19,645 5.80×
    logmath
    		 4,371 27,596 6.31×
    matrix
    		 4,988 22,919 4.59×
    matrix-3d
    		 673.33 1,962 2.91×
    monte-carlo
    		 246.89 1,629 6.60×
    mpfr
    		 1,448 6,524 4.51×
    powmath
    		 1,623 9,850 6.07×
    trig
    		 2,221 11,779 5.30×
    veccmp
    		 20,643 95,748 4.64×
    vecfp
    		 1,838 8,543 4.65×
    vecmath
    		 3,227 18,647 5.78×
    vecshuf
    		 3,220 24,176 7.51×
    vecwide
    		 63,557 325,385 5.12×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 7.4 35.4 4.78×
    bsearch
    		 239 1,264 5.29×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 4.8 6.00×
    fibsearch
    		 265.04 1,360 5.13×
    heapsort
    		 8.4 45.6 5.43×
    hsearch
    		 7,063 34,131 4.83×
    insertionsort
    		 10.6 38 3.58×
    malloc
    		 2,479,255 16,935,804 6.83×
    mcontend
    		 131.11 1,341 10.23×
    mergesort
    		 25.8 148.4 5.75×
    qsort
    		 18.4 102.8 5.59×
    skiplist
    		 4,570 28,925 6.33×
    tree
    		 1.4 8 5.71×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 274,705 495,450 1.80×
    cachehammer
    		 201,166 1,352,925 6.73×
    cacheline
    		 55.56 499.86 9.00×
    l1cache
    		 916.5 1,436 1.57×
    memcpy
    		 372.17 1,488 4.00×
    memrate
    		 0.12 0.92 7.67×
    memthrash
    		 128.71 301.54 2.34×
    ptr-chase
    		 29,284,766 87,010,629 2.97×
    spinmem
    		 221.99 330.56 1.49×
    stream
    		 14.28 467.06 32.71×
    vm
    		 92,372 292,149 3.16×

    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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