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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 0.0524 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
6654
(All-cores)
1623
(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
2026-08-07T17:38:41.199213

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1427 USD/h 0.5292 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1427 USD/h 0.5292 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1427 USD/h 0.5292 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1428 USD/h 0.5292 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1704 USD/h 0.5292 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0719 USD/h 0.5504 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.083 USD/h 0.5504 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.2464 USD/h 0.5557 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0524 USD/h 0.5827 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1614 USD/h 0.5827 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.2114 USD/h 0.5827 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.2255 USD/h 0.5961 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.362 USD/h 0.6033 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0661 USD/h 0.6245 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0884 USD/h 0.6245 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.2102 USD/h 0.6245 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1272 USD/h 0.6362 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.3817 USD/h 0.6362 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0609 USD/h 0.643 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2918 USD/h 0.6529 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1121 USD/h 0.6796 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.1312 USD/h 0.7117 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1328 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
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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 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

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      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) 1,293,640 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.677 50.00% 50.00% -17.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,250,209 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.538 20.00% 20.00% -11.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,083 2,416 0.862 10.00% 10.00% -1.47%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 59,095 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.548 10.00% 10.00% -5.84%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,471 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.05 10.00% 10.00% +0.49%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,706

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,586

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 11820
      Compression
      		 119178
      Encryption
      		 7030
      Extended Instructions
      		 8294
      Floating Point Maths
      		 22691
      Integer Maths
      		 31800
      Physics
      		 1546
      Prime Numbers
      		 72
      Single Threaded
      		 2471
      String Sorting
      		 16307

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2083
      Database Operations
      		 4055
      Memory Latency
      		 71
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22384
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9787
      Memory Write
      		 8528

      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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