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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 0.0217 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
4148
(All-cores)
1572
(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
2026-07-24T14:33:20.915596

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0217 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
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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

      A dedicated compute instance featuring high-frequency Intel Xeon processors for single-threaded workloads requiring balanced memory allocation.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c2-standard-4 is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance configured with 4 dedicated vCPUs across 2 physical Intel Xeon cores running at 3.1 GHz. It features 16.0 GB of RAM, a 24 MB L3 cache, and lacks bundled local storage or GPU hardware. Performance benchmarks show average single-core capabilities, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1309.0 and a stress-ng single-core score of 1572.39. However, multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics fall into the lower percentiles, as evidenced by a Geekbench multi-core score of 2855.0 and uncached read bandwidth of 28.26 GB/sec. This hardware profile is suited for single-threaded compute tasks, light web serving, and text processing, but presents performance tradeoffs for memory-intensive applications, multi-threaded compilations, or high-throughput database operations.

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.297Score
      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 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.213 50.00% 50.00% -53.80%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,549,551 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.221 20.00% 20.00% -26.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,071 2,411 0.859 10.00% 10.00% -1.51%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 33,461 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.312 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,200 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.931 10.00% 10.00% -0.71%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,309

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,855

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 4762
      Compression
      		 61562
      Encryption
      		 1900
      Extended Instructions
      		 3545
      Floating Point Maths
      		 7410
      Integer Maths
      		 13787
      Physics
      		 494
      Prime Numbers
      		 24
      Single Threaded
      		 2200
      String Sorting
      		 7241

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2071
      Database Operations
      		 1546
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 26247
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10744
      Memory Write
      		 9964

      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

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      c2-standard-8 832 GiB0
      c2-standard-16 1664 GiB0
      c2-standard-30 30120 GiB0
      c2-standard-60 60240 GiB0

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