c4-highcpu-2 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highcpu-2 is a 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0139 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,217
(All-cores)
2,161
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1760002
Name
c4-highcpu-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-02T19:08:14.144358

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0507 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0508 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0509 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0509 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0509 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0292 USD/h 0.0885 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0332 USD/h 0.0885 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0241 USD/h 0.0893 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0304 USD/h 0.0893 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0389 USD/h 0.0893 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0272 USD/h 0.0927 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0139 USD/h 0.0936 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0157 USD/h 0.0937 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0235 USD/h 0.0937 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.03 USD/h 0.0937 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0337 USD/h 0.0937 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0346 USD/h 0.0937 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0326 USD/h 0.0958 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0445 USD/h 0.097 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0591 USD/h 0.0985 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0144 USD/h 0.0987 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0286 USD/h 0.0987 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0241 USD/h 0.1004 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0275 USD/h 0.1004 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0452 USD/h 0.1004 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0332 USD/h 0.1022 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0356 USD/h 0.1022 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0247 USD/h 0.1029 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0279 USD/h 0.1033 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0505 USD/h 0.1049 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.034 USD/h 0.1063 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0447 USD/h 0.1092 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0462 USD/h 0.1092 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0654 USD/h 0.1092 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0194 USD/h 0.1097 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0375 USD/h 0.1106 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0668 USD/h 0.1114 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0193 USD/h 0.1144 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0448 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0401 USD/h 0.1216 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0519 USD/h 0.1351 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0202 USD/h 0.1361 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
1
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 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 dual-vCPU compute instance featuring advanced Intel Xeon instruction sets and strong single-core performance for lightweight workloads.

      Compute Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform c4-highcpu-2 is an x86_64 compute-optimized server featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs from a single physical Intel Xeon 8581C core running at 2.3 GHz, paired with 4.0 GB of RAM. It contains no local storage or GPUs. Single-core performance is a notable strength, with Geekbench single-core scores reaching the top 10% and single-threaded compression tests performing in the top 25%. Conversely, multi-core and memory bandwidth benchmarks are weak to poor due to the low resource footprint. The processor supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX, making it capable of handling specialized cryptographic and lightweight vector operations. This server is best suited for single-threaded compute tasks, lightweight web serving, and basic utility workloads requiring dedicated CPU allocation without high memory demands.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.29Score
      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) 447,738 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.24 50.00% 50.00% -51.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,167,962 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.18 20.00% 20.00% -29.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 960 2,415 0.4 10.00% 10.00% -8.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,722 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.34 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,659 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,292

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,816

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3,395
      Compression
      		 32,836
      Encryption
      		 1,926
      Extended Instructions
      		 2,302
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6,166
      Integer Maths
      		 8,647
      Physics
      		 433
      Prime Numbers
      		 19
      Single Threaded
      		 2,659
      String Sorting
      		 4,366

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 961
      Database Operations
      		 1,347
      Memory Latency
      		 64
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,049
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,959
      Memory Write
      		 8,990

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 640.11 642.09 1.00×
      bitops
      		 128,632 155,913 1.21×
      branch
      		 120,987 187,179 1.55×
      funccall
      		 655.64 868.23 1.32×
      funcret
      		 10,856 17,066 1.57×
      hash
      		 154,052 223,993 1.45×
      intmath
      		 56,192 66,293 1.18×
      nop
      		 228,498 183,748 0.80×
      prime
      		 414,842 505,581 1.22×
      rotate
      		 86,218 93,333 1.08×
      str
      		 777,642 1,159,270 1.49×
      wcs
      		 601,988 734,872 1.22×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,932 3,400 1.16×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 731.27 959.58 1.31×
      zlib
      		 57.31 77.33 1.35×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 39,502 58,052 1.47×
      clone
      		 431.18 460.63 1.07×
      context
      		 4,508 7,444 1.65×
      cpu-sched
      		 62.5 128.19 2.05×
      eventfd
      		 102,521 239,551 2.34×
      fault
      		 26,091 32,979 1.26×
      fork
      		 7,635 11,512 1.51×
      getrandom
      		 51,066 75,033 1.47×
      hrtimers
      		 228,589 260,628 1.14×
      mprotect
      		 652,587 656,269 1.01×
      mtx
      		 14,138,140 67,045,967 4.74×
      munmap
      		 5,368 7,590 1.41×
      null
      		 783,563 1,226,544 1.57×
      pipe
      		 3,153,512 1,415,898 0.45×
      priv-instr
      		 729,407 1,052,432 1.44×
      resched
      		 381,469 235,079 0.62×
      switch
      		 262,175 592,411 2.26×
      timermix
      		 183,960 323,396 1.76×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,344 6,920 0.94×
      tsc
      		 504,306 845,139 1.68×
      usersyscall
      		 619,426 900,182 1.45×
      vdso
      		 78,301,488 121,812,357 1.56×
      vfork
      		 51,616 72,446 1.40×
      x86syscall
      		 8,698,620 14,595,327 1.68×
      yield
      		 2,011,963 1,755,874 0.87×
      zero
      		 5,608,938 9,016,207 1.61×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,022 18,345 1.31×
      expmath
      		 3,058 4,445 1.45×
      fma
      		 1,132,421 1,478,111 1.31×
      fp
      		 180 268.56 1.49×
      fractal
      		 5.6 8.2 1.46×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,524 5,078 1.44×
      logmath
      		 4,508 7,135 1.58×
      matrix
      		 4,660 4,954 1.06×
      matrix-3d
      		 767.33 897.19 1.17×
      monte-carlo
      		 257.5 410.08 1.59×
      mpfr
      		 1,517 1,785 1.18×
      powmath
      		 1,702 2,574 1.51×
      trig
      		 2,319 3,067 1.32×
      veccmp
      		 21,619 25,046 1.16×
      vecfp
      		 1,330 1,683 1.27×
      vecmath
      		 3,403 4,775 1.40×
      vecshuf
      		 714.8 817.94 1.14×
      vecwide
      		 30,089 36,462 1.21×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.6 9.2 1.21×
      bsearch
      		 249.96 308.68 1.23×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 1.2 1.50×
      fibsearch
      		 284.02 360 1.27×
      heapsort
      		 8.8 12 1.36×
      hsearch
      		 7,059 8,697 1.23×
      insertionsort
      		 11 9.8 0.89×
      malloc
      		 2,606,849 4,816,792 1.85×
      mcontend
      		 413.4 446.67 1.08×
      mergesort
      		 26.6 38.4 1.44×
      qsort
      		 19.2 26.6 1.39×
      skiplist
      		 4,732 7,476 1.58×
      tree
      		 1.6 2.2 1.38×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 255,267 284,562 1.11×
      cachehammer
      		 224,995 359,639 1.60×
      cacheline
      		 28.23 58.87 2.09×
      l1cache
      		 959.66 365.76 0.38×
      memcpy
      		 384.68 391.32 1.02×
      memrate
      		 0.13 0.24 1.85×
      memthrash
      		 79.02 96.26 1.22×
      ptr-chase
      		 31,567,731 53,343,109 1.69×
      spinmem
      		 188.19 81.79 0.43×
      stream
      		 6.6 17.2 2.61×
      vm
      		 112,223 184,367 1.64×

      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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