c2-standard-8 by Google Cloud Platform

c2-standard-8 is a Compute Optimized: 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0495 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
8,307
(All-cores)
1,574
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
801008
Name
c2-standard-8
Description
Compute Optimized: 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM
Family
c2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-11T15:44:14.720751

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0591 USD/h 0.4176 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.184 USD/h 0.4176 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.184 USD/h 0.4176 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.184 USD/h 0.4176 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0495 USD/h 0.4594 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.2756 USD/h 0.4594 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.091 USD/h 0.4597 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1847 USD/h 0.4597 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.2459 USD/h 0.4598 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1342 USD/h 0.4703 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.2567 USD/h 0.4703 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1057 USD/h 0.4835 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0712 USD/h 0.5016 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0818 USD/h 0.5016 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1386 USD/h 0.5016 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1655 USD/h 0.5016 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.3091 USD/h 0.5152 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0924 USD/h 0.5357 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1467 USD/h 0.5357 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.2509 USD/h 0.5357 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1179 USD/h 0.538 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1389 USD/h 0.538 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1642 USD/h 0.5471 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.302 USD/h 0.5843 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.2465 USD/h 0.5925 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0743 USD/h 0.5972 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1093 USD/h 0.6629 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0601 USD/h 0.6682 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
3.1 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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
5.3
Scalability
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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

      A compute-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and AVX-512 support for high-throughput CPU-bound workloads.

      Google Cloud Platform c2-standard-8 is a compute-optimized instance featuring 8 vCPUs and 32 GB of RAM, powered by a dedicated 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon processor with x86_64 architecture. It provides 4 physical cores with hyper-threading, a 24 MB L3 cache, and support for AVX-512 instructions. The instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Benchmark results show average performance across most workloads, including a stress-ng multi-core score of 8306.94, a Redis SET throughput of 8.05 million operations per second, and a static web serving speed of 7.07 GB/sec. However, multi-threaded bzip3 decompression is a relative weak point. This instance is designed for compute-intensive workloads such as software compilation, database operations, and web serving where dedicated CPU performance is required without the overhead of local storage.

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      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.52Score
      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) 816,785 ops/sec 1,926,573 ops/sec 0.43 50.00% 50.00% -34.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 5,110,129 ops/sec 11,810,473 ops/sec 0.42 20.00% 20.00% -16.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,563 2,406 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,729 MB/sec 108,674 MB/sec 0.49 10.00% 10.00% -6.90%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,260 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,317

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,970

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 9,362
      Compression
      		 123,880
      Encryption
      		 3,823
      Extended Instructions
      		 7,333
      Floating Point Maths
      		 14,930
      Integer Maths
      		 27,768
      Physics
      		 968
      Prime Numbers
      		 52
      Single Threaded
      		 2,260
      String Sorting
      		 14,514

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,563
      Database Operations
      		 3,150
      Memory Latency
      		 49
      Memory Read Cached
      		 26,658
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,461
      Memory Write
      		 10,592

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 252.86 268.02 1.06×
      bitops
      		 120,854 556,215 4.60×
      branch
      		 172,055 1,045,106 6.07×
      funccall
      		 606.71 2,505 4.13×
      funcret
      		 12,702 72,304 5.69×
      hash
      		 140,739 811,477 5.77×
      intmath
      		 24,973 149,162 5.97×
      nop
      		 213,720 739,830 3.46×
      prime
      		 348,688 1,565,268 4.49×
      rotate
      		 108,019 596,337 5.52×
      str
      		 843,737 3,484,303 4.13×
      wcs
      		 525,561 2,240,208 4.26×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,726 10,643 3.90×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 648.31 3,088 4.76×
      zlib
      		 57.59 350.8 6.09×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 33,961 143,845 4.24×
      clone
      		 365.38 1,321 3.62×
      context
      		 2,851 13,493 4.73×
      cpu-sched
      		 74.78 504.32 6.74×
      eventfd
      		 49,774 480,769 9.66×
      fault
      		 12,680 62,121 4.90×
      fork
      		 4,766 23,346 4.90×
      getrandom
      		 49,982 243,058 4.86×
      hrtimers
      		 368,103 1,048,844 2.85×
      mprotect
      		 887,051 1,429,296 1.61×
      mtx
      		 12,424,516 250,632,822 20.17×
      munmap
      		 3,315 15,918 4.80×
      null
      		 332,345 1,354,569 4.08×
      pipe
      		 814,515 3,241,173 3.98×
      priv-instr
      		 617,104 2,820,811 4.57×
      resched
      		 1,654,869 647,145 0.39×
      switch
      		 101,330 1,538,287 15.18×
      timermix
      		 199,132 1,173,691 5.89×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,888 17,277 1.94×
      tsc
      		 1,114,671 6,213,962 5.57×
      usersyscall
      		 433,915 1,911,412 4.41×
      vdso
      		 92,450,870 517,982,733 5.60×
      vfork
      		 31,026 122,449 3.95×
      x86syscall
      		 3,641,981 15,192,458 4.17×
      yield
      		 4,630,403 4,560,901 0.98×
      zero
      		 2,249,603 9,576,536 4.26×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 18,109 83,546 4.61×
      expmath
      		 3,004 18,337 6.10×
      fma
      		 624,771 4,065,664 6.51×
      fp
      		 144 689.3 4.79×
      fractal
      		 5.4 32.4 6.00×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,118 19,448 6.24×
      logmath
      		 5,065 29,908 5.91×
      matrix
      		 3,358 21,402 6.37×
      matrix-3d
      		 639.5 1,870 2.92×
      monte-carlo
      		 150.89 687.24 4.55×
      mpfr
      		 1,344 5,815 4.33×
      powmath
      		 1,772 10,824 6.11×
      trig
      		 1,908 10,140 5.31×
      veccmp
      		 17,445 72,272 4.14×
      vecfp
      		 1,459 7,239 4.96×
      vecmath
      		 2,444 15,429 6.31×
      vecshuf
      		 630.29 2,706 4.29×
      vecwide
      		 27,862 116,991 4.20×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8 38.2 4.78×
      bsearch
      		 267.59 1,244 4.65×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 3.2 4.00×
      fibsearch
      		 273.15 1,252 4.58×
      heapsort
      		 9.6 46.4 4.83×
      hsearch
      		 5,431 27,557 5.07×
      insertionsort
      		 9.2 36.6 3.98×
      malloc
      		 2,354,278 17,382,419 7.38×
      mcontend
      		 150.48 1,902 12.64×
      mergesort
      		 26 139.8 5.38×
      qsort
      		 16.6 76.8 4.63×
      skiplist
      		 5,402 30,812 5.70×
      tree
      		 1.4 6.4 4.57×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 396,864 790,382 1.99×
      cachehammer
      		 401,393 2,884,511 7.19×
      cacheline
      		 33.65 283.13 8.41×
      l1cache
      		 254.09 1,094 4.30×
      memcpy
      		 387.89 1,671 4.31×
      memrate
      		 1.37 6.15 4.49×
      memthrash
      		 148.42 312.88 2.11×
      ptr-chase
      		 29,296,425 94,431,369 3.22×
      spinmem
      		 237.99 362.77 1.52×
      stream
      		 47.71 1,807 37.87×
      vm
      		 59,148 291,715 4.93×

      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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