c3-highmem-4 by Google Cloud Platform

c3-highmem-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0249 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,321
(All-cores)
1,619
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1330004
Name
c3-highmem-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM
Family
c3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
33
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-11T15:44:14.721806

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0574 USD/h 0.2646 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0939 USD/h 0.2646 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0939 USD/h 0.2646 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0939 USD/h 0.2646 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0982 USD/h 0.2646 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0249 USD/h 0.2752 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0428 USD/h 0.2752 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1667 USD/h 0.2778 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0562 USD/h 0.2914 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0649 USD/h 0.2914 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1269 USD/h 0.2914 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1335 USD/h 0.298 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.181 USD/h 0.3017 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0885 USD/h 0.3064 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0308 USD/h 0.3122 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0583 USD/h 0.3122 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1142 USD/h 0.3122 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1108 USD/h 0.3181 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1908 USD/h 0.3181 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.029 USD/h 0.3215 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1648 USD/h 0.3265 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1371 USD/h 0.3398 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0321 USD/h 0.3558 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0395 USD/h 0.4202 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0652 USD/h 0.4234 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
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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

      An x86_64 memory-optimized instance featuring a high memory-to-core ratio for memory-bound workloads requiring moderate single-core performance.

      Google Cloud Platform c3-highmem-4 is an x86_64 memory-optimized instance featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs and 32.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor at 2.7 GHz. It provides a high memory-to-core ratio of 8.0 GB per vCPU but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks show average single-core CPU capabilities and single-threaded compression speeds, alongside weak multi-core scaling and memory bandwidth. The processor includes advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and AMX for specialized workloads. This instance is suited for memory-bound applications, small caching layers, and database operations where memory capacity is prioritized over high parallel compute performance.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.41Score
      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) 645,223 ops/sec 1,926,573 ops/sec 0.34 50.00% 50.00% -42.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,127,566 ops/sec 11,810,473 ops/sec 0.26 20.00% 20.00% -24.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,888 2,406 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 55,944 MB/sec 108,674 MB/sec 0.51 10.00% 10.00% -6.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,468 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,719

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,828

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6,120
      Compression
      		 60,013
      Encryption
      		 3,524
      Extended Instructions
      		 4,115
      Floating Point Maths
      		 11,333
      Integer Maths
      		 15,870
      Physics
      		 804
      Prime Numbers
      		 36
      Single Threaded
      		 2,468
      String Sorting
      		 8,174

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,888
      Database Operations
      		 2,043
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,303
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,515
      Memory Write
      		 8,198

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 182.58 220.46 1.21×
      bitops
      		 124,264 298,329 2.40×
      branch
      		 115,790 359,472 3.10×
      funccall
      		 624.14 1,616 2.59×
      funcret
      		 10,429 33,453 3.21×
      hash
      		 148,177 433,811 2.93×
      intmath
      		 54,280 127,894 2.36×
      nop
      		 223,266 367,479 1.65×
      prime
      		 399,441 947,955 2.37×
      rotate
      		 83,643 178,293 2.13×
      str
      		 756,518 2,227,261 2.94×
      wcs
      		 589,831 1,394,139 2.36×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,829 5,427 1.92×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 698.24 1,820 2.61×
      zlib
      		 45.95 141.68 3.08×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 40,308 115,148 2.86×
      clone
      		 394.16 748.49 1.90×
      context
      		 3,901 12,747 3.27×
      cpu-sched
      		 68.41 235.66 3.44×
      eventfd
      		 51,194 403,721 7.89×
      fault
      		 24,610 56,076 2.28×
      fork
      		 5,821 18,182 3.12×
      getrandom
      		 49,118 143,566 2.92×
      hrtimers
      		 170,953 426,773 2.50×
      mprotect
      		 915,109 1,081,460 1.18×
      mtx
      		 11,598,133 113,220,222 9.76×
      munmap
      		 4,438 12,616 2.84×
      null
      		 607,339 1,801,933 2.97×
      pipe
      		 631,518 2,684,537 4.25×
      priv-instr
      		 663,751 1,820,883 2.74×
      resched
      		 967,432 513,793 0.53×
      switch
      		 77,013 982,859 12.76×
      timermix
      		 176,899 597,407 3.38×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,445 10,664 1.43×
      tsc
      		 486,779 1,630,366 3.35×
      usersyscall
      		 553,723 1,528,100 2.76×
      vdso
      		 75,553,776 234,967,133 3.11×
      vfork
      		 37,872 102,960 2.72×
      x86syscall
      		 6,772,475 21,592,364 3.19×
      yield
      		 2,961,210 2,987,242 1.01×
      zero
      		 4,760,371 14,953,780 3.14×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,574 34,873 2.57×
      expmath
      		 2,928 8,585 2.93×
      fma
      		 1,160,970 3,262,083 2.81×
      fp
      		 257.88 804.19 3.12×
      fractal
      		 5.8 17 2.93×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,370 9,797 2.91×
      logmath
      		 4,363 13,776 3.16×
      matrix
      		 4,904 11,947 2.44×
      matrix-3d
      		 648.88 1,164 1.79×
      monte-carlo
      		 215.42 699.78 3.25×
      mpfr
      		 1,451 3,263 2.25×
      powmath
      		 1,623 4,950 3.05×
      trig
      		 2,208 5,873 2.66×
      veccmp
      		 20,552 47,015 2.29×
      vecfp
      		 1,836 4,275 2.33×
      vecmath
      		 3,226 9,308 2.88×
      vecshuf
      		 3,218 12,174 3.78×
      vecwide
      		 63,380 163,400 2.58×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.4 17.6 2.38×
      bsearch
      		 236.02 594.36 2.52×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 2.4 3.00×
      fibsearch
      		 267.46 684.96 2.56×
      heapsort
      		 8.4 23.2 2.76×
      hsearch
      		 6,872 17,050 2.48×
      insertionsort
      		 10.4 18.6 1.79×
      malloc
      		 2,503,462 9,709,147 3.88×
      mcontend
      		 123.41 703.66 5.70×
      mergesort
      		 25.8 74 2.87×
      qsort
      		 18.4 51.2 2.78×
      skiplist
      		 4,562 14,444 3.17×
      tree
      		 1.4 4 2.86×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 274,084 362,687 1.32×
      cachehammer
      		 217,021 761,274 3.51×
      cacheline
      		 45.53 181.01 3.98×
      l1cache
      		 907.81 722.44 0.80×
      memcpy
      		 370.06 723.21 1.95×
      memrate
      		 0.17 0.62 3.65×
      memthrash
      		 57.33 161.26 2.81×
      ptr-chase
      		 27,755,417 58,530,633 2.11×
      spinmem
      		 167.59 54.98 0.33×
      stream
      		 14.11 132.42 9.38×
      vm
      		 89,866 260,158 2.89×

      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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