c2-standard-4 by Google Cloud Platform

c2-standard-4 is a Compute Optimized: 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0236 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
4,148
(All-cores)
1,572
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
801004
Name
c2-standard-4
Description
Compute Optimized: 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
c2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-22T18:36:06.136348

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0236 USD/h 0.2297 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0301 USD/h 0.3341 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
3.1 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
25 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
25 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, 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, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512_vnni, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
2.6
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      Compute-optimized instance featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs, Intel Xeon high clock speeds, 16 GB RAM, and AVX-512 extensions for single-threaded processing.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c2-standard-4 is a compute-optimized x86_64 instance featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs from 2 physical Intel Xeon cores running at 3.1 GHz, paired with 16.0 GB of system memory. It incorporates AVX-512 instruction extensions and a 24 MB L3 cache, but includes no local SSD storage or discrete GPUs. Benchmark results demonstrate reliable average single-core CPU performance, achieving a stress-ng score of 1572.39 and a Geekbench single-core score of 1309.0. However, multi-core throughput and memory bandwidth fall in lower benchmark percentiles due to the 2-core hardware physical footprint. Static web serving throughput reaches 4.11 GB/sec, while Redis execution completes 4.1 million SET operations per second. The server provides strong per-core single-thread efficiency, making it well-suited for lightweight batch utilities, single-threaded software compilation, small-scale web applications, and basic background task workers.

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.29Score
      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) 404,164 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.21 50.00% 50.00% -54.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,549,551 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.21 20.00% 20.00% -27.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,071 2,416 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 33,461 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.3 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,200 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,309

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,855

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 4,762
      Compression
      		 61,562
      Encryption
      		 1,900
      Extended Instructions
      		 3,545
      Floating Point Maths
      		 7,410
      Integer Maths
      		 13,787
      Physics
      		 494
      Prime Numbers
      		 24
      Single Threaded
      		 2,200
      String Sorting
      		 7,241

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,071
      Database Operations
      		 1,546
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 26,247
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,744
      Memory Write
      		 9,964

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 285.81 304.95 1.07×
      bitops
      		 120,730 277,245 2.30×
      branch
      		 171,312 520,335 3.04×
      funccall
      		 605.43 1,246 2.06×
      funcret
      		 12,454 36,081 2.90×
      hash
      		 139,878 404,357 2.89×
      intmath
      		 25,035 73,884 2.95×
      nop
      		 212,569 369,126 1.74×
      prime
      		 347,567 779,587 2.24×
      rotate
      		 107,907 296,742 2.75×
      str
      		 818,970 1,788,305 2.18×
      wcs
      		 534,556 1,117,603 2.09×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,709 5,303 1.96×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 669.51 1,633 2.44×
      zlib
      		 49.09 192.91 3.93×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 34,025 77,274 2.27×
      clone
      		 353.14 680.07 1.93×
      context
      		 2,851 6,695 2.35×
      cpu-sched
      		 70.54 247.27 3.51×
      eventfd
      		 47,058 252,319 5.36×
      fault
      		 12,318 31,839 2.58×
      fork
      		 4,701 13,232 2.81×
      getrandom
      		 49,902 121,136 2.43×
      hrtimers
      		 209,974 372,628 1.77×
      mprotect
      		 653,066 725,570 1.11×
      mtx
      		 11,988,283 137,843,445 11.50×
      munmap
      		 3,349 8,246 2.46×
      null
      		 325,340 672,769 2.07×
      pipe
      		 785,613 1,662,891 2.12×
      priv-instr
      		 617,363 1,417,753 2.30×
      resched
      		 686,997 357,830 0.52×
      switch
      		 78,584 769,319 9.79×
      timermix
      		 199,636 579,934 2.90×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,932 9,891 1.25×
      tsc
      		 1,113,085 3,099,392 2.78×
      usersyscall
      		 427,748 961,660 2.25×
      vdso
      		 92,464,909 260,249,065 2.81×
      vfork
      		 31,184 77,049 2.47×
      x86syscall
      		 3,660,736 7,684,463 2.10×
      yield
      		 2,373,010 2,623,441 1.11×
      zero
      		 2,233,640 4,711,573 2.11×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 18,019 41,656 2.31×
      expmath
      		 2,986 9,126 3.06×
      fma
      		 624,418 2,025,080 3.24×
      fp
      		 140.39 342.47 2.44×
      fractal
      		 5.4 16.2 3.00×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,113 9,717 3.12×
      logmath
      		 5,059 14,869 2.94×
      matrix
      		 3,344 10,630 3.18×
      matrix-3d
      		 576.5 1,014 1.76×
      monte-carlo
      		 151.06 343.61 2.27×
      mpfr
      		 1,350 2,901 2.15×
      powmath
      		 1,768 5,402 3.06×
      trig
      		 1,905 5,047 2.65×
      veccmp
      		 17,323 36,065 2.08×
      vecfp
      		 1,456 3,668 2.52×
      vecmath
      		 2,438 7,689 3.15×
      vecshuf
      		 629.33 1,352 2.15×
      vecwide
      		 28,621 57,773 2.02×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8 18.4 2.30×
      bsearch
      		 269.08 607.66 2.26×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 1.6 2.00×
      fibsearch
      		 273.08 619.71 2.27×
      heapsort
      		 9.8 23.2 2.37×
      hsearch
      		 5,457 13,711 2.51×
      insertionsort
      		 9 18 2.00×
      malloc
      		 2,150,131 8,445,262 3.93×
      mcontend
      		 201.73 974.21 4.83×
      mergesort
      		 26 70 2.69×
      qsort
      		 16.6 38.2 2.30×
      skiplist
      		 5,432 15,427 2.84×
      tree
      		 1.4 3.8 2.71×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 372,702 530,829 1.42×
      cachehammer
      		 399,114 1,459,763 3.66×
      cacheline
      		 27.82 108.69 3.91×
      l1cache
      		 253.16 547.38 2.16×
      memcpy
      		 386.92 828.22 2.14×
      memrate
      		 1.37 3.08 2.25×
      memthrash
      		 59.19 160.75 2.72×
      ptr-chase
      		 22,335,766 48,944,680 2.19×
      spinmem
      		 243.59 203.78 0.84×
      stream
      		 44.93 449.15 10.00×
      vm
      		 59,155 240,157 4.06×

      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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