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 0.0355 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
6,628
(All-cores)
1,622
(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
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T01:49:54.615092

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0861 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1206 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1275 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1275 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1275 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0355 USD/h 0.3538 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.058 USD/h 0.3538 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.2073 USD/h 0.3572 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0974 USD/h 0.3746 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1557 USD/h 0.3746 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.181 USD/h 0.3832 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2327 USD/h 0.3878 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1086 USD/h 0.3939 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0361 USD/h 0.4014 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1549 USD/h 0.4014 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1662 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
0.2136 USD/h 0.4197 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.123 USD/h 0.4253 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1312 USD/h 0.4369 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2055 USD/h 0.4369 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0567 USD/h 0.4759 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0536 USD/h 0.5402 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0976 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
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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 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

      0.67Score
      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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.68 50.00% 50.00% -18.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,204,374 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.52 20.00% 20.00% -12.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,925 2,416 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 62,069 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.56 10.00% 10.00% -5.60%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,472 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,728

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,628

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 11,808
      Compression
      		 119,151
      Encryption
      		 7,072
      Extended Instructions
      		 8,295
      Floating Point Maths
      		 22,678
      Integer Maths
      		 31,773
      Physics
      		 1,534
      Prime Numbers
      		 71
      Single Threaded
      		 2,472
      String Sorting
      		 16,235

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,925
      Database Operations
      		 3,981
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,377
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,410
      Memory Write
      		 8,727

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 211.86 185.66 0.88×
      bitops
      		 124,469 597,906 4.80×
      branch
      		 115,882 720,727 6.22×
      funccall
      		 625.36 3,232 5.17×
      funcret
      		 10,588 65,852 6.22×
      hash
      		 148,397 868,819 5.85×
      intmath
      		 54,311 255,943 4.71×
      nop
      		 224,098 736,156 3.28×
      prime
      		 399,880 1,889,538 4.73×
      rotate
      		 83,727 357,948 4.28×
      str
      		 758,099 4,522,486 5.97×
      wcs
      		 582,815 2,940,160 5.04×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,836 10,872 3.83×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 684.73 3,665 5.35×
      zlib
      		 53.49 311.91 5.83×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 40,195 199,212 4.96×
      clone
      		 550.88 1,755 3.19×
      context
      		 3,906 25,484 6.52×
      cpu-sched
      		 61.62 480.52 7.80×
      eventfd
      		 50,707 759,639 14.98×
      fault
      		 25,004 106,485 4.26×
      fork
      		 5,950 32,034 5.38×
      getrandom
      		 49,031 286,952 5.85×
      hrtimers
      		 260,315 859,153 3.30×
      mprotect
      		 1,065,864 2,136,338 2.00×
      mtx
      		 11,739,417 247,065,165 21.05×
      munmap
      		 4,385 23,845 5.44×
      null
      		 605,774 3,604,471 5.95×
      pipe
      		 649,622 5,286,073 8.14×
      priv-instr
      		 663,927 3,523,472 5.31×
      resched
      		 2,432,633 846,972 0.35×
      switch
      		 70,733 1,969,859 27.85×
      timermix
      		 180,128 1,190,879 6.61×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 10,360 17,501 1.69×
      tsc
      		 488,062 3,267,867 6.70×
      usersyscall
      		 559,555 2,994,432 5.35×
      vdso
      		 75,622,297 471,812,035 6.24×
      vfork
      		 37,196 160,364 4.31×
      x86syscall
      		 6,718,998 42,979,990 6.40×
      yield
      		 6,548,133 6,412,556 0.98×
      zero
      		 4,759,014 29,600,000 6.22×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,592 70,189 5.16×
      expmath
      		 2,598 16,167 6.22×
      fma
      		 1,161,800 6,520,432 5.61×
      fp
      		 258.87 1,611 6.22×
      fractal
      		 5.8 33.8 5.83×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,810 18,021 6.41×
      logmath
      		 4,370 27,596 6.32×
      matrix
      		 4,949 23,206 4.69×
      matrix-3d
      		 664.12 1,957 2.95×
      monte-carlo
      		 215.47 1,380 6.41×
      mpfr
      		 1,449 6,506 4.49×
      powmath
      		 1,542 9,623 6.24×
      trig
      		 2,177 11,518 5.29×
      veccmp
      		 20,621 94,755 4.60×
      vecfp
      		 1,837 8,508 4.63×
      vecmath
      		 3,229 18,678 5.78×
      vecshuf
      		 3,219 24,305 7.55×
      vecwide
      		 63,535 332,700 5.24×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.4 35.2 4.76×
      bsearch
      		 236.28 1,223 5.18×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 4.8 6.00×
      fibsearch
      		 262.5 1,379 5.25×
      heapsort
      		 8.4 45.6 5.43×
      hsearch
      		 6,865 34,060 4.96×
      insertionsort
      		 10.4 37.4 3.60×
      malloc
      		 2,554,177 16,690,648 6.53×
      mcontend
      		 119.55 1,393 11.65×
      mergesort
      		 25.6 148.4 5.80×
      qsort
      		 18.4 103 5.60×
      skiplist
      		 4,568 28,919 6.33×
      tree
      		 1.4 8 5.71×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 292,943 501,014 1.71×
      cachehammer
      		 220,847 1,551,623 7.03×
      cacheline
      		 59.15 490.57 8.29×
      l1cache
      		 909.87 1,425 1.57×
      memcpy
      		 368.81 1,377 3.73×
      memrate
      		 0.17 1.23 7.24×
      memthrash
      		 113.26 298.69 2.64×
      ptr-chase
      		 28,924,650 89,245,825 3.09×
      spinmem
      		 168.79 227.79 1.35×
      stream
      		 14.91 454.27 30.47×
      vm
      		 96,584 292,111 3.02×

      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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