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 0.0948 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
2026-09-10T17:08:02.662341

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1084 USD/h 0.8232 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.4268 USD/h 0.8232 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.4268 USD/h 0.8232 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.4268 USD/h 0.8232 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0983 USD/h 0.8561 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1368 USD/h 0.8643 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.3457 USD/h 0.8643 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.3589 USD/h 0.8972 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.3946 USD/h 0.9271 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2734 USD/h 0.9384 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0948 USD/h 0.9713 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1621 USD/h 0.9713 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1694 USD/h 1.0155 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1349 USD/h 1.029 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2668 USD/h 1.0571 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.1237 USD/h 1.0783 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.2156 USD/h 1.0783 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1533 USD/h 1.0784 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
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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 x86_64 server featuring high-capacity local NVMe storage and dedicated Intel Xeon processing for database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-8-highlssd is an x86_64 memory-optimized server configured with 8 dedicated vCPUs, 64 GB of RAM, and a bundled 3221 GB NVMe local SSD. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor running at 2.7 GHz, it features 4 physical cores and a 105 MB L3 cache. The instance delivers average performance across standard benchmarks, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 6517.0 and a Redis SET throughput of 8.92 million operations per second. Its hardware profile is optimized for memory-heavy and storage-intensive tasks, though it shows performance trade-offs in complex computations such as medium-sized LLM text generation. This server is best suited for databases, caching layers, and applications requiring high-density memory combined with fast local storage.

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.642Score
    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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.613 50.00% 50.00% -21.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,116,474 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.524 20.00% 20.00% -12.10%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,027 2,418 0.838 10.00% 10.00% -1.75%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 63,573 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.588 10.00% 10.00% -5.17%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,419 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,694

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,517

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11641
    Compression
    		 116172
    Encryption
    		 7077
    Extended Instructions
    		 7995
    Floating Point Maths
    		 22637
    Integer Maths
    		 31567
    Physics
    		 1525
    Prime Numbers
    		 71
    Single Threaded
    		 2419
    String Sorting
    		 15955

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2027
    Database Operations
    		 3908
    Memory Latency
    		 73
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22422
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9298
    Memory Write
    		 8153

    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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