c3-highcpu-4 by Google Cloud Platform

c3-highcpu-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0207 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,325
(All-cores)
1,621
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1310004
Name
c3-highcpu-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM
Family
c3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-02T07:47:13.563169Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0454 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0603 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0673 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0673 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0673 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0207 USD/h 0.1769 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0306 USD/h 0.1769 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0779 USD/h 0.1786 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0568 USD/h 0.1873 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0743 USD/h 0.1873 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1056 USD/h 0.1916 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1164 USD/h 0.1939 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0518 USD/h 0.197 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.021 USD/h 0.2007 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0739 USD/h 0.2007 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0723 USD/h 0.2045 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1227 USD/h 0.2045 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1075 USD/h 0.2099 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0587 USD/h 0.2126 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0656 USD/h 0.2184 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0772 USD/h 0.2184 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0299 USD/h 0.238 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0283 USD/h 0.2701 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0466 USD/h 0.2722 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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, 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, 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, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
2.1
Scalability
52.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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 with dedicated Intel Xeon cores, designed for lightweight single-threaded processing and basic web serving workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c3-highcpu-4 is a compute-optimized virtual machine featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs and 8 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor at 2.7 GHz on the x86_64 architecture. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. The instance demonstrates average single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1635.0, and benefits from advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and AMX. However, it exhibits weak multi-core scaling and poor memory bandwidth, as evidenced by its low Passmark memory score and uncached read speeds of 27.54 GB/sec. This resource density makes it qualitatively cost-effective for compute-focused tasks with low memory requirements. It is best suited for lightweight web serving, single-threaded data processing, and basic text manipulation workloads.

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.37Score
      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) 638,932 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.34 50.00% 50.00% -42.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,084,646 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.26 20.00% 20.00% -24.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 990 2,418 0.41 10.00% 10.00% -8.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 45,161 MB/sec 108,322 MB/sec 0.41 10.00% 10.00% -8.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,469 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,635

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,703

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6115
      Compression
      		 60832
      Encryption
      		 3505
      Extended Instructions
      		 4084
      Floating Point Maths
      		 11307
      Integer Maths
      		 15778
      Physics
      		 802
      Prime Numbers
      		 36
      Single Threaded
      		 2469
      String Sorting
      		 8152

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 990
      Database Operations
      		 2052
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22069
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10152
      Memory Write
      		 8653

      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

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      c3-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      c3-highcpu-8 816 GiB0
      c3-standard-8 832 GiB0
      c3-standard-8-lssd 832 GiB0
      c3-highmem-8 864 GiB0

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