c3-standard-4-lssd by Google Cloud Platform

c3-standard-4-lssd is a 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, 1 local SSD server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 402 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0488 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
402 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3,323
(All-cores)
1,618
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1301004
Name
c3-standard-4-lssd
Description
4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, 1 local SSD
Family
c3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-26T10:06:56.795136Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0961 USD/h 0.2427 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1006 USD/h 0.2427 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1006 USD/h 0.2427 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1006 USD/h 0.2427 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0784 USD/h 0.2468 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.111 USD/h 0.2569 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0488 USD/h 0.259 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1085 USD/h 0.2631 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0545 USD/h 0.267 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0823 USD/h 0.2672 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1461 USD/h 0.2723 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1617 USD/h 0.2791 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0527 USD/h 0.2864 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1115 USD/h 0.2872 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1595 USD/h 0.2939 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0923 USD/h 0.3075 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0504 USD/h 0.3123 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1152 USD/h 0.3123 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0542 USD/h 0.3818 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0652 USD/h 0.3883 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
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    402 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A balanced general-purpose instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing and integrated local NVMe SSD storage for data-intensive workloads.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    The Google Cloud Platform c3-standard-4-lssd is a general-purpose instance configured with 4 vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM, powered by a 2.7 GHz Intel Xeon 8481C processor. It features a bundled 402 GB local NVMe SSD, offering integrated high-speed storage, while lacking GPU resources. Performance benchmarks indicate average single-core capabilities, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1714.0 and static web serving throughput of 6.5 GB/sec. However, multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics are weaker, as shown by a multi-core stress-ng score of 3323.04 and a large-block memory read speed of 29.2 GB/sec. The processor supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and AMX. This instance is best suited for general-purpose applications, static web serving, and lightweight database operations requiring local SSD storage.

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.392Score
    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) 626,961 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.327 50.00% 50.00% -42.80%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,890,921 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.246 20.00% 20.00% -24.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,752 2,418 0.725 10.00% 10.00% -3.16%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 54,684 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.505 10.00% 10.00% -6.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,474 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.05 10.00% 10.00% +0.49%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,714

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,812

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 6113
    Compression
    		 59981
    Encryption
    		 3529
    Extended Instructions
    		 4091
    Floating Point Maths
    		 11336
    Integer Maths
    		 15872
    Physics
    		 788
    Prime Numbers
    		 36
    Single Threaded
    		 2474
    String Sorting
    		 8156

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1752
    Database Operations
    		 2016
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22400
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9425
    Memory Write
    		 8252

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    c3-highcpu-4 48 GiB0
    c3-standard-4 416 GiB0
    c3-highmem-4 432 GiB0
    c3-highcpu-8 816 GiB0
    c3-standard-8 832 GiB0
    c3-standard-8-lssd 832 GiB0
    c3-highmem-8 864 GiB0

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