c4-highcpu-16 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highcpu-16 is a 16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1041 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
17,354
(All-cores)
2,143
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1760016
Name
c4-highcpu-16
Description
16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
26
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T01:49:54.617086

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.4053 USD/h 0.6804 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.4061 USD/h 0.6804 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.4073 USD/h 0.6804 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.4073 USD/h 0.6804 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.4073 USD/h 0.6804 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.2335 USD/h 0.7076 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.2942 USD/h 0.7077 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.2138 USD/h 0.7144 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.2429 USD/h 0.7144 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.3118 USD/h 0.7144 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.2415 USD/h 0.7417 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.1235 USD/h 0.7485 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1041 USD/h 0.7492 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.2079 USD/h 0.7492 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.2398 USD/h 0.7492 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.2698 USD/h 0.7492 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.2771 USD/h 0.7492 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.2606 USD/h 0.7664 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.3571 USD/h 0.7757 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.4727 USD/h 0.7879 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.128 USD/h 0.7893 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.2288 USD/h 0.7893 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.2139 USD/h 0.8029 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.2439 USD/h 0.8029 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.3624 USD/h 0.8029 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.2464 USD/h 0.8179 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.2545 USD/h 0.8179 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1976 USD/h 0.8233 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.2233 USD/h 0.8267 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.405 USD/h 0.8394 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.2722 USD/h 0.8505 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.3965 USD/h 0.8738 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.4092 USD/h 0.8738 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.5229 USD/h 0.8738 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.1718 USD/h 0.8777 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.3326 USD/h 0.8845 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.5029 USD/h 0.8914 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.171 USD/h 0.915 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.3967 USD/h 0.9518 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.3211 USD/h 0.973 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.3974 USD/h 1.0804 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1547 USD/h 1.0887 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8581C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, monitor, 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, hle, 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, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, tsxldtrk, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
8.1
Scalability
50.62

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 dedicated compute-optimized instance featuring advanced Intel Xeon matrix extensions for high-performance single-core and text processing workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      The Google Cloud Platform c4-highcpu-16 is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and 32 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8581C processor running at 2.3 GHz. With 8 physical cores and a 260 MB L3 cache, this instance is designed for CPU-intensive tasks. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks highlight top-tier single-core execution and text processing, alongside strong single-threaded compression capabilities. The processor supports advanced vector and matrix extensions (AVX-512 and AMX), making it highly capable for mathematical and machine learning inference workloads. With a 1:2 vCPU-to-RAM ratio, it offers a cost-effective profile for compute-heavy, memory-light applications such as text processing, software compilation, and web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.6Score
      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) 3,635,253 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.9 50.00% 50.00% +38.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 17,502,859 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.5 20.00% 20.00% +8.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,305 2,416 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 177,184 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.6 10.00% 10.00% +4.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,549 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,314

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 13,758

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 23,019
      Compression
      		 242,670
      Encryption
      		 14,639
      Extended Instructions
      		 18,287
      Floating Point Maths
      		 46,673
      Integer Maths
      		 65,792
      Physics
      		 3,243
      Prime Numbers
      		 143
      Single Threaded
      		 2,549
      String Sorting
      		 33,756

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,305
      Database Operations
      		 8,684
      Memory Latency
      		 60
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,316
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,557
      Memory Write
      		 8,984

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 246.49 212.48 0.86×
      bitops
      		 135,577 1,278,135 9.43×
      branch
      		 129,103 1,534,693 11.89×
      funccall
      		 689.67 6,943 10.07×
      funcret
      		 11,383 139,724 12.27×
      hash
      		 162,032 1,830,420 11.30×
      intmath
      		 59,193 537,758 9.08×
      nop
      		 248,231 1,508,633 6.08×
      prime
      		 432,441 4,056,881 9.38×
      rotate
      		 91,267 748,277 8.20×
      str
      		 860,121 9,628,398 11.19×
      wcs
      		 624,262 5,996,536 9.61×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,095 27,716 8.95×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 768.37 7,892 10.27×
      zlib
      		 54.93 656.76 11.96×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 39,055 293,411 7.51×
      clone
      		 483.65 3,397 7.02×
      context
      		 4,760 60,734 12.76×
      cpu-sched
      		 70.88 1,055 14.89×
      eventfd
      		 153,616 908,156 5.91×
      fault
      		 28,038 208,794 7.45×
      fork
      		 5,139 57,928 11.27×
      getrandom
      		 54,179 613,820 11.33×
      hrtimers
      		 478,697 2,105,525 4.40×
      mprotect
      		 1,207,513 4,967,895 4.11×
      mtx
      		 12,475,883 467,893,070 37.50×
      munmap
      		 4,189 47,179 11.26×
      null
      		 822,202 10,088,791 12.27×
      pipe
      		 845,255 12,417,598 14.69×
      priv-instr
      		 757,991 7,952,121 10.49×
      resched
      		 7,293,781 1,238,875 0.17×
      switch
      		 730,672 4,866,722 6.66×
      timermix
      		 195,742 2,540,791 12.98×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 11,998 39,449 3.29×
      tsc
      		 528,886 6,893,890 13.03×
      usersyscall
      		 649,794 6,944,345 10.69×
      vdso
      		 82,427,333 991,610,431 12.03×
      vfork
      		 38,482 270,021 7.02×
      x86syscall
      		 9,175,212 119,376,514 13.01×
      yield
      		 14,157,198 16,733,690 1.18×
      zero
      		 5,949,915 74,836,248 12.58×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,745 146,834 9.96×
      expmath
      		 3,215 36,222 11.27×
      fma
      		 1,199,969 12,126,666 10.11×
      fp
      		 196.17 2,173 11.08×
      fractal
      		 6 66.4 11.07×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,740 41,696 11.15×
      logmath
      		 4,743 58,363 12.30×
      matrix
      		 4,626 43,385 9.38×
      matrix-3d
      		 797.69 4,143 5.19×
      monte-carlo
      		 269.92 3,326 12.32×
      mpfr
      		 1,625 14,418 8.87×
      powmath
      		 1,793 21,092 11.77×
      trig
      		 2,451 24,946 10.18×
      veccmp
      		 22,795 205,240 9.00×
      vecfp
      		 1,404 13,672 9.74×
      vecmath
      		 3,598 39,042 10.85×
      vecshuf
      		 758.44 6,707 8.84×
      vecwide
      		 31,240 295,046 9.44×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8.2 74 9.02×
      bsearch
      		 270.81 2,874 10.61×
      bubblesort
      		 1 9.6 9.60×
      fibsearch
      		 291.09 2,804 9.63×
      heapsort
      		 9.2 96.2 10.46×
      hsearch
      		 7,492 73,108 9.76×
      insertionsort
      		 11.8 79.8 6.76×
      malloc
      		 2,663,405 29,763,390 11.17×
      mcontend
      		 117.63 2,792 23.74×
      mergesort
      		 28.4 313.39 11.03×
      qsort
      		 20.2 218.19 10.80×
      skiplist
      		 4,978 61,581 12.37×
      tree
      		 1.6 17.39 10.87×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 214,877 1,143,617 5.32×
      cachehammer
      		 216,906 2,582,160 11.90×
      cacheline
      		 63.17 1,006 15.92×
      l1cache
      		 1,007 2,923 2.90×
      memcpy
      		 406.35 3,055 7.52×
      memrate
      		 0.13 1.87 14.38×
      memthrash
      		 211.35 593.93 2.81×
      ptr-chase
      		 31,303,973 198,175,048 6.33×
      spinmem
      		 229.39 719.75 3.14×
      stream
      		 5.65 628.82 111.30×
      vm
      		 112,262 293,894 2.62×

      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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