c3-standard-4 by Google Cloud Platform

c3-standard-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0211 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,316
(All-cores)
1,619
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1300004
Name
c3-standard-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
c3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T05:25:12.767033

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.051 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0714 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0756 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0756 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0756 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0211 USD/h 0.2097 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0344 USD/h 0.2097 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1228 USD/h 0.2117 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0235 USD/h 0.2218 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0577 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0737 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0923 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1073 USD/h 0.2271 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1379 USD/h 0.2298 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0505 USD/h 0.2339 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0214 USD/h 0.2379 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0918 USD/h 0.2379 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0985 USD/h 0.2424 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1454 USD/h 0.2424 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1266 USD/h 0.2487 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0729 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1218 USD/h 0.2589 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0478 USD/h 0.2621 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0318 USD/h 0.3201 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0579 USD/h 0.3226 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
Scalability
50

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

      Dedicated four vCPU instance with 16 GB RAM, Intel AMX acceleration, and stable single-core performance for lightweight cloud workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c3-standard-4 is a compute instance featuring 4 vCPUs derived from 2 physical Intel Xeon 8481C cores operating at 2.7 GHz, paired with 16 GB of system memory. Built on an x86_64 architecture, the processor incorporates a 105 MB L3 cache and advanced instruction extensions such as Intel AMX and AVX-512. The instance does not include bundled local storage or discrete GPUs. Benchmark results indicate balanced single-core execution, with single-threaded stress-ng scoring 1618.89 and Geekbench single-core reaching 1713.0. Multi-core scaling and uncached memory bandwidth fall into lower performance brackets due to the two physical core limit. Static web serving throughput achieves 6.68 GB/sec, while small LLM text generation reaches 112.11 tokens/sec. The instance delivers a cost-efficient profile for moderate single-threaded applications, basic web hosting, lightweight API services, and general background task processing where dedicated CPU resources are required without heavy multi-threaded demand.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.4Score
      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) 639,190 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.34 50.00% 50.00% -42.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,063,221 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.26 20.00% 20.00% -24.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,737 2,416 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 54,802 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.5 10.00% 10.00% -6.70%
      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: 1,713

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,813

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6,118
      Compression
      		 60,803
      Encryption
      		 3,507
      Extended Instructions
      		 4,090
      Floating Point Maths
      		 11,320
      Integer Maths
      		 15,855
      Physics
      		 800
      Prime Numbers
      		 36
      Single Threaded
      		 2,468
      String Sorting
      		 8,136

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,737
      Database Operations
      		 2,014
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,174
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,158
      Memory Write
      		 7,957

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 209.5 187.67 0.90×
      bitops
      		 124,224 298,431 2.40×
      branch
      		 115,714 359,190 3.10×
      funccall
      		 624.38 1,646 2.64×
      funcret
      		 10,410 32,922 3.16×
      hash
      		 148,167 432,874 2.92×
      intmath
      		 54,234 130,151 2.40×
      nop
      		 223,294 368,188 1.65×
      prime
      		 397,531 948,506 2.39×
      rotate
      		 83,517 178,918 2.14×
      str
      		 755,844 2,348,527 3.11×
      wcs
      		 574,037 1,464,173 2.55×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,831 5,419 1.91×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 699.07 1,870 2.68×
      zlib
      		 68.45 164.99 2.41×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 40,222 115,109 2.86×
      clone
      		 415.42 751.91 1.81×
      context
      		 3,895 12,733 3.27×
      cpu-sched
      		 54.63 251.78 4.61×
      eventfd
      		 50,640 400,962 7.92×
      fault
      		 24,749 56,229 2.27×
      fork
      		 5,867 18,512 3.16×
      getrandom
      		 48,817 143,501 2.94×
      hrtimers
      		 164,475 457,900 2.78×
      mprotect
      		 933,570 1,084,890 1.16×
      mtx
      		 10,693,634 105,906,936 9.90×
      munmap
      		 4,434 12,520 2.82×
      null
      		 605,814 1,798,341 2.97×
      pipe
      		 750,901 2,674,958 3.56×
      priv-instr
      		 662,186 1,771,324 2.67×
      resched
      		 978,278 525,692 0.54×
      switch
      		 86,720 981,304 11.32×
      timermix
      		 185,062 580,987 3.14×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,914 10,405 1.31×
      tsc
      		 486,920 1,630,037 3.35×
      usersyscall
      		 552,084 1,505,180 2.73×
      vdso
      		 75,502,036 234,842,917 3.11×
      vfork
      		 37,773 100,905 2.67×
      x86syscall
      		 6,745,811 21,582,667 3.20×
      yield
      		 2,986,545 3,553,745 1.19×
      zero
      		 4,730,146 14,943,297 3.16×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,556 35,373 2.61×
      expmath
      		 2,595 8,059 3.11×
      fma
      		 1,160,273 3,290,390 2.84×
      fp
      		 258.24 805.25 3.12×
      fractal
      		 5.8 17 2.93×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,803 8,980 3.20×
      logmath
      		 4,363 13,763 3.15×
      matrix
      		 5,049 11,585 2.29×
      matrix-3d
      		 666.45 1,183 1.78×
      monte-carlo
      		 215.43 690.36 3.20×
      mpfr
      		 1,449 3,255 2.25×
      powmath
      		 1,542 4,795 3.11×
      trig
      		 2,178 5,770 2.65×
      veccmp
      		 20,507 47,454 2.31×
      vecfp
      		 1,834 4,263 2.32×
      vecmath
      		 3,225 9,295 2.88×
      vecshuf
      		 3,215 12,082 3.76×
      vecwide
      		 63,404 165,241 2.61×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.4 17.8 2.41×
      bsearch
      		 235.69 589.71 2.50×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 2.4 3.00×
      fibsearch
      		 269.06 688.59 2.56×
      heapsort
      		 8.4 23.2 2.76×
      hsearch
      		 6,867 17,009 2.48×
      insertionsort
      		 10.4 19 1.83×
      malloc
      		 2,475,899 9,806,700 3.96×
      mcontend
      		 163.54 688.24 4.21×
      mergesort
      		 25.6 74.2 2.90×
      qsort
      		 18.4 51.4 2.79×
      skiplist
      		 4,560 14,450 3.17×
      tree
      		 1.4 4 2.86×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 274,227 371,363 1.35×
      cachehammer
      		 216,159 770,448 3.56×
      cacheline
      		 43.01 172.82 4.02×
      l1cache
      		 905.92 713.5 0.79×
      memcpy
      		 370.75 745.88 2.01×
      memrate
      		 0.17 0.62 3.65×
      memthrash
      		 53.09 158.72 2.99×
      ptr-chase
      		 28,739,695 59,190,289 2.06×
      spinmem
      		 167.39 142.79 0.85×
      stream
      		 14.31 132.48 9.26×
      vm
      		 96,171 260,490 2.71×

      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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