logo

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 0.0413 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
8307
(All-cores)
1574
(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
2026-08-14T04:26:56.990872

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0413 USD/h 0.4594 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0694 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
132.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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 compute-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and AVX-512 support for high-throughput CPU-bound workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      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.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.518Score
      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 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.427 50.00% 50.00% -34.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 5,110,129 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.44 20.00% 20.00% -15.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,563 2,416 1.06 10.00% 10.00% +0.58%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,729 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.498 10.00% 10.00% -6.73%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,260 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.956 10.00% 10.00% -0.45%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,317

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,970

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 9362
      Compression
      		 123880
      Encryption
      		 3823
      Extended Instructions
      		 7333
      Floating Point Maths
      		 14930
      Integer Maths
      		 27768
      Physics
      		 968
      Prime Numbers
      		 52
      Single Threaded
      		 2260
      String Sorting
      		 14514

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2563
      Database Operations
      		 3150
      Memory Latency
      		 49
      Memory Read Cached
      		 26658
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11461
      Memory Write
      		 10592

      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-4 416 GiB0
      c2-standard-16 1664 GiB0
      c2-standard-30 30120 GiB0
      c2-standard-60 60240 GiB0

      Similar Servers

      INSTANCEVENDORvCPUsMEMORYGPUs

      c2-standard-8 FAQs