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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 0.0213 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3325
(All-cores)
1621
(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
2026-08-18T23:10:49.661081

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0458 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.053 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.053 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.053 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0548 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0279 USD/h 0.1769 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0915 USD/h 0.1786 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0517 USD/h 0.1873 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0678 USD/h 0.1873 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0837 USD/h 0.1916 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1164 USD/h 0.1939 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0577 USD/h 0.197 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0213 USD/h 0.2007 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0674 USD/h 0.2007 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0408 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
0.1084 USD/h 0.2099 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0535 USD/h 0.2126 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0436 USD/h 0.2184 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.069 USD/h 0.2184 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0301 USD/h 0.238 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0286 USD/h 0.2701 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0426 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
105

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 dedicated compute-optimized instance featuring Intel Xeon processors and advanced instruction sets for memory-lean, CPU-bound workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c3-highcpu-4 is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs and 8 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor running at 2.7 GHz. It contains 2 physical cores with hyper-threading, a 105 MB L3 cache, and lacks local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks show average single-core CPU execution and single-threaded compression speeds, though multi-core scaling and memory bandwidth reside in the lower percentiles. The processor supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX, which assist with vector calculations and cryptography. This instance provides a cost-effective option for dedicated compute tasks with low memory requirements. It is best suited for lightweight web serving, single-threaded processing, and basic containerized microservices.

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.374Score
      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 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.334 50.00% 50.00% -42.20%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,084,646 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.266 20.00% 20.00% -23.30%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 989.9 2,416 0.41 10.00% 10.00% -8.53%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 45,161 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.419 10.00% 10.00% -8.33%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,469 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.04 10.00% 10.00% +0.39%

      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

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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      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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