c3-highmem-8 by Google Cloud Platform

c3-highmem-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0498 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
6,654
(All-cores)
1,623
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1330008
Name
c3-highmem-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM
Family
c3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-06T09:26:41.532854

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1208 USD/h 0.5292 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.187 USD/h 0.5292 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1978 USD/h 0.5292 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1978 USD/h 0.5292 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1978 USD/h 0.5292 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0498 USD/h 0.5504 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0814 USD/h 0.5504 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.3334 USD/h 0.5557 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1021 USD/h 0.5827 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1368 USD/h 0.5827 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.2417 USD/h 0.5827 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.2543 USD/h 0.5961 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.362 USD/h 0.6033 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1686 USD/h 0.6128 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0649 USD/h 0.6245 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.111 USD/h 0.6245 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.2404 USD/h 0.6245 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.2332 USD/h 0.6362 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.3817 USD/h 0.6362 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0579 USD/h 0.643 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.3471 USD/h 0.6529 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2886 USD/h 0.6796 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0673 USD/h 0.7117 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0831 USD/h 0.8404 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1372 USD/h 0.8468 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
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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 memory-optimized x86_64 instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and high memory density for database and caching workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c3-highmem-8 is an x86_64 memory-optimized server instance featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs and 64 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor running at 2.7 GHz. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. The hardware configuration delivers a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8 GB per core, supported by advanced CPU instructions like AVX-512 and AMX. Benchmark results indicate average performance across most metrics, including a Geekbench multi-core score of 6586.0 and a Redis SET throughput of 8.86 million operations per second. However, performance tradeoffs are present, with weak results in multi-threaded bzip3 decompression and medium-model LLM text generation. This instance is suited for memory-intensive applications, database operations, and caching workloads that benefit from dedicated compute resources and high memory density without requiring local NVMe storage.

      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) 1,293,640 ops/sec 1,936,298 ops/sec 0.68 50.00% 50.00% -18.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,250,209 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 0.53 20.00% 20.00% -12.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,083 2,407 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 59,095 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,471 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,706

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,586

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 11,820
      Compression
      		 119,178
      Encryption
      		 7,030
      Extended Instructions
      		 8,294
      Floating Point Maths
      		 22,691
      Integer Maths
      		 31,800
      Physics
      		 1,546
      Prime Numbers
      		 72
      Single Threaded
      		 2,471
      String Sorting
      		 16,307

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,083
      Database Operations
      		 4,055
      Memory Latency
      		 71
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,384
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,787
      Memory Write
      		 8,528

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 218.05 191.27 0.88×
      bitops
      		 124,639 598,091 4.80×
      branch
      		 115,925 721,245 6.22×
      funccall
      		 626.29 3,269 5.22×
      funcret
      		 10,461 67,056 6.41×
      hash
      		 148,646 868,012 5.84×
      intmath
      		 54,336 259,427 4.77×
      nop
      		 224,530 735,809 3.28×
      prime
      		 400,845 1,896,381 4.73×
      rotate
      		 83,734 358,811 4.29×
      str
      		 711,029 4,524,775 6.36×
      wcs
      		 584,593 2,825,613 4.83×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,838 10,859 3.83×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 684.59 3,674 5.37×
      zlib
      		 51.97 323.06 6.22×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 44,662 215,241 4.82×
      clone
      		 468.52 1,438 3.07×
      context
      		 4,380 29,031 6.63×
      cpu-sched
      		 65.65 514.21 7.83×
      eventfd
      		 52,010 784,690 15.09×
      fault
      		 25,042 108,711 4.34×
      fork
      		 5,942 32,348 5.44×
      getrandom
      		 49,663 289,340 5.83×
      hrtimers
      		 199,095 947,447 4.76×
      mprotect
      		 1,149,997 2,296,422 2.00×
      mtx
      		 11,982,015 227,509,995 18.99×
      munmap
      		 4,495 24,330 5.41×
      null
      		 748,100 4,729,467 6.32×
      pipe
      		 728,342 5,419,263 7.44×
      priv-instr
      		 697,073 3,750,013 5.38×
      resched
      		 2,659,174 893,571 0.34×
      switch
      		 83,295 2,116,101 25.40×
      timermix
      		 195,946 1,285,369 6.56×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 9,844 17,696 1.80×
      tsc
      		 488,157 3,219,858 6.60×
      usersyscall
      		 592,914 3,268,602 5.51×
      vdso
      		 75,641,008 471,428,953 6.23×
      vfork
      		 36,954 163,238 4.42×
      x86syscall
      		 8,385,844 56,411,860 6.73×
      yield
      		 6,219,697 6,880,847 1.11×
      zero
      		 5,380,299 35,505,063 6.60×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,597 70,184 5.16×
      expmath
      		 2,601 16,202 6.23×
      fma
      		 1,162,258 6,525,786 5.61×
      fp
      		 259.19 1,610 6.21×
      fractal
      		 5.8 34 5.86×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,811 18,071 6.43×
      logmath
      		 4,367 27,620 6.32×
      matrix
      		 4,781 22,408 4.69×
      matrix-3d
      		 677.12 1,979 2.92×
      monte-carlo
      		 247 1,611 6.52×
      mpfr
      		 1,455 6,516 4.48×
      powmath
      		 1,544 9,641 6.25×
      trig
      		 2,188 11,628 5.31×
      veccmp
      		 20,855 94,660 4.54×
      vecfp
      		 1,836 8,512 4.64×
      vecmath
      		 3,236 18,690 5.78×
      vecshuf
      		 3,226 24,264 7.52×
      vecwide
      		 63,584 334,318 5.26×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.4 35.2 4.76×
      bsearch
      		 234.83 1,222 5.20×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 4.8 6.00×
      fibsearch
      		 261.63 1,357 5.19×
      heapsort
      		 8.4 45.2 5.38×
      hsearch
      		 6,852 34,081 4.97×
      insertionsort
      		 10.6 37.8 3.57×
      malloc
      		 2,522,736 17,257,830 6.84×
      mcontend
      		 137.69 1,354 9.83×
      mergesort
      		 25.8 148.4 5.75×
      qsort
      		 18.4 103.2 5.61×
      skiplist
      		 4,573 29,031 6.35×
      tree
      		 1.4 8 5.71×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 279,508 497,879 1.78×
      cachehammer
      		 216,577 1,543,194 7.13×
      cacheline
      		 60.77 492.32 8.10×
      l1cache
      		 909.46 1,417 1.56×
      memcpy
      		 371.76 1,427 3.84×
      memrate
      		 0.17 1.23 7.24×
      memthrash
      		 167.25 305.03 1.82×
      ptr-chase
      		 29,288,979 89,266,992 3.05×
      spinmem
      		 208.99 329.38 1.58×
      stream
      		 14.7 476.33 32.40×
      vm
      		 96,388 292,160 3.03×

      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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