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c3-highcpu-8 by Google Cloud Platform

c3-highcpu-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0425 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
6628
(All-cores)
1622
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1310008
Name
c3-highcpu-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
c3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
24
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-26T01:22:09.871396

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0834 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0834 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0834 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0966 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1044 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0562 USD/h 0.3538 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1508 USD/h 0.3572 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1093 USD/h 0.3746 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1431 USD/h 0.3746 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1318 USD/h 0.3832 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2327 USD/h 0.3878 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0951 USD/h 0.3939 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0425 USD/h 0.4014 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1423 USD/h 0.4014 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0779 USD/h 0.409 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.2454 USD/h 0.409 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1975 USD/h 0.4197 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1129 USD/h 0.4253 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0655 USD/h 0.4369 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1315 USD/h 0.4369 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0702 USD/h 0.4759 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0572 USD/h 0.5402 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0898 USD/h 0.5443 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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
4.1
Scalability
102.5

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 compute-optimized x86_64 virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and advanced matrix extensions for lean, CPU-intensive workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c3-highcpu-8 is a compute-optimized instance featuring 8 vCPUs and 16 GB of RAM on an x86_64 architecture. Powered by a 2.7 GHz Intel Xeon 8481C processor with 4 physical cores and hyper-threading, it provides dedicated CPU allocation and a 105 MB L3 cache. The instance lacks local storage and GPUs. Performance benchmarks generally fall within the average tier, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 6628.0 and a static web serving throughput of 13.01 GB/sec. It supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX for cryptography and vector math. However, tradeoffs include weak multi-threaded bzip3 decompression and low text generation speeds on 7B LLM models. This instance is configured for compute-heavy workloads such as software compilation, web serving, and database operations that require a lean memory footprint.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.677Score
      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) 1,288,828 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.68 50.00% 50.00% -17.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,204,374 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.538 20.00% 20.00% -11.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,925 2,411 0.799 10.00% 10.00% -2.22%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 62,069 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.578 10.00% 10.00% -5.33%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,472 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.05 10.00% 10.00% +0.49%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,728

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,628

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 11808
      Compression
      		 119151
      Encryption
      		 7072
      Extended Instructions
      		 8295
      Floating Point Maths
      		 22678
      Integer Maths
      		 31773
      Physics
      		 1534
      Prime Numbers
      		 71
      Single Threaded
      		 2472
      String Sorting
      		 16235

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1925
      Database Operations
      		 3981
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22377
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10410
      Memory Write
      		 8727

      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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