c3-standard-8 by Google Cloud Platform

c3-standard-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0421 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
6,645
(All-cores)
1,622
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1300008
Name
c3-standard-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM
Family
c3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-23T22:06:25.420630

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.102 USD/h 0.4032 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1429 USD/h 0.4032 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1511 USD/h 0.4032 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1511 USD/h 0.4032 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1511 USD/h 0.4032 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0688 USD/h 0.4193 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0421 USD/h 0.4194 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.2457 USD/h 0.4234 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.047 USD/h 0.4435 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1155 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1474 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1846 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.2146 USD/h 0.4541 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2758 USD/h 0.4597 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.101 USD/h 0.4677 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0428 USD/h 0.4758 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1836 USD/h 0.4758 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1969 USD/h 0.4847 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.2908 USD/h 0.4847 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2531 USD/h 0.4974 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1458 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2436 USD/h 0.5178 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0956 USD/h 0.5242 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0636 USD/h 0.6403 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1158 USD/h 0.6451 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
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

      A balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors, advanced instruction sets, and a 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c3-standard-8 is a general-purpose virtual machine featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs and 32 GB of RAM, powered by a 2.7 GHz Intel Xeon 8481C processor. Built on the x86_64 architecture with 4 physical cores and hyper-threading, this instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks place the server consistently in the average tier, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1689.0 and a multi-core score of 6526.0. The processor supports advanced instruction sets such as AVX-512 and Intel AMX, facilitating efficient cryptography and vector operations. Memory performance is robust, delivering a cached read bandwidth of 544.66 GB/sec. With a balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio, the c3-standard-8 is well-suited for general-purpose workloads, including static web serving, Redis caching, database operations, and software compilation.

      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) 1,286,703 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.68 50.00% 50.00% -18.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,152,487 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.52 20.00% 20.00% -12.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,980 2,416 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 59,475 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,475 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,689

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,526

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 11,778
      Compression
      		 118,908
      Encryption
      		 6,995
      Extended Instructions
      		 8,245
      Floating Point Maths
      		 22,679
      Integer Maths
      		 31,781
      Physics
      		 1,511
      Prime Numbers
      		 71
      Single Threaded
      		 2,475
      String Sorting
      		 16,248

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,980
      Database Operations
      		 3,907
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,274
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,156
      Memory Write
      		 7,859

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 209.11 177.62 0.85×
      bitops
      		 124,675 598,311 4.80×
      branch
      		 115,645 719,182 6.22×
      funccall
      		 629.08 3,239 5.15×
      funcret
      		 10,411 65,683 6.31×
      hash
      		 148,455 868,633 5.85×
      intmath
      		 54,232 258,852 4.77×
      nop
      		 224,810 736,942 3.28×
      prime
      		 399,241 1,889,269 4.73×
      rotate
      		 83,683 356,799 4.26×
      str
      		 756,840 4,519,531 5.97×
      wcs
      		 577,857 2,807,971 4.86×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,675 10,842 4.05×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 682.22 3,659 5.36×
      zlib
      		 51.28 318 6.20×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 44,444 214,419 4.82×
      clone
      		 433.88 1,518 3.50×
      context
      		 4,377 28,952 6.61×
      cpu-sched
      		 67.59 500.81 7.41×
      eventfd
      		 57,202 809,573 14.15×
      fault
      		 24,695 105,839 4.29×
      fork
      		 5,716 30,795 5.39×
      getrandom
      		 49,586 288,749 5.82×
      hrtimers
      		 300,370 995,202 3.31×
      mprotect
      		 1,099,679 2,283,701 2.08×
      mtx
      		 11,906,326 219,823,366 18.46×
      munmap
      		 4,273 23,625 5.53×
      null
      		 747,576 4,714,511 6.31×
      pipe
      		 704,042 5,822,831 8.27×
      priv-instr
      		 697,120 3,784,326 5.43×
      resched
      		 2,651,654 930,612 0.35×
      switch
      		 87,386 2,116,491 24.22×
      timermix
      		 196,596 1,296,673 6.60×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 9,590 17,197 1.79×
      tsc
      		 488,263 3,269,554 6.70×
      usersyscall
      		 594,699 3,293,710 5.54×
      vdso
      		 75,648,175 471,918,286 6.24×
      vfork
      		 36,695 160,560 4.38×
      x86syscall
      		 8,378,522 56,345,557 6.72×
      yield
      		 7,634,889 7,089,852 0.93×
      zero
      		 5,376,301 34,890,749 6.49×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,573 69,065 5.09×
      expmath
      		 2,602 16,154 6.21×
      fma
      		 1,160,839 6,523,720 5.62×
      fp
      		 259.11 1,603 6.19×
      fractal
      		 5.8 33.8 5.83×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,804 18,017 6.42×
      logmath
      		 4,364 27,544 6.31×
      matrix
      		 4,834 23,243 4.81×
      matrix-3d
      		 644.28 1,841 2.86×
      monte-carlo
      		 246.95 1,590 6.44×
      mpfr
      		 1,448 6,474 4.47×
      powmath
      		 1,544 9,647 6.25×
      trig
      		 2,176 11,542 5.30×
      veccmp
      		 21,023 94,481 4.49×
      vecfp
      		 1,837 8,571 4.66×
      vecmath
      		 3,226 18,653 5.78×
      vecshuf
      		 3,222 24,201 7.51×
      vecwide
      		 63,533 336,329 5.29×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.4 35.2 4.76×
      bsearch
      		 235.46 1,257 5.34×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 4.8 6.00×
      fibsearch
      		 265.97 1,368 5.14×
      heapsort
      		 8.4 44.8 5.33×
      hsearch
      		 6,872 33,928 4.94×
      insertionsort
      		 10.6 37.8 3.57×
      malloc
      		 2,362,007 16,716,231 7.08×
      mcontend
      		 140.51 1,343 9.56×
      mergesort
      		 25.8 148 5.74×
      qsort
      		 18.4 102.2 5.55×
      skiplist
      		 4,572 28,916 6.32×
      tree
      		 1.4 7.2 5.14×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 237,412 453,398 1.91×
      cachehammer
      		 212,558 1,475,574 6.94×
      cacheline
      		 54.28 464.74 8.56×
      l1cache
      		 912.66 1,418 1.55×
      memcpy
      		 370.32 1,428 3.86×
      memrate
      		 0.17 1.23 7.24×
      memthrash
      		 171.76 299.13 1.74×
      ptr-chase
      		 15,128,621 76,277,938 5.04×
      spinmem
      		 206.79 375.97 1.82×
      stream
      		 13.87 457 32.95×
      vm
      		 92,476 292,161 3.16×

      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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      c3-standard-8-lssd 832 GiB0
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