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 0.0129 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
2026-07-08T02:47:34.835408

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
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
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0509 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0292 USD/h 0.0885 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0368 USD/h 0.0885 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0222 USD/h 0.0893 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0304 USD/h 0.0893 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.039 USD/h 0.0893 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0302 USD/h 0.0927 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0129 USD/h 0.0936 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0131 USD/h 0.0937 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0263 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
0.0451 USD/h 0.097 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0587 USD/h 0.0985 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0153 USD/h 0.0987 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0286 USD/h 0.0987 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.027 USD/h 0.1004 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0294 USD/h 0.1004 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0414 USD/h 0.1004 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0243 USD/h 0.1022 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0304 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
0.0506 USD/h 0.1049 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.034 USD/h 0.1063 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0446 USD/h 0.1092 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0501 USD/h 0.1092 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0655 USD/h 0.1092 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0187 USD/h 0.1097 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0464 USD/h 0.1106 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0665 USD/h 0.1114 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0216 USD/h 0.1144 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0501 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0401 USD/h 0.1216 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0433 USD/h 0.1351 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0139 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
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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 compute-optimized virtual machine delivering top-tier single-core performance and advanced vector instructions for lightweight, single-threaded workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-highcpu-2 is a compute-optimized virtual machine featuring 2 vCPUs and 4.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8581C processor at 2.3 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it allocates one physical core with hyper-threading and a 260 MB L3 cache. The instance lacks local storage and bundled GPUs. Benchmarks show exceptional single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 2292.0 placing it in the top 10%, alongside strong single-threaded compression speeds. However, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth are weak, with large-block read bandwidth limited to 20.28 GB/sec. This resource profile makes the instance highly cost-efficient for single-threaded tasks, text processing, and lightweight web serving, though it is poorly suited for memory-intensive or highly parallelized workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.274Score
      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 2,031,101 ops/sec 0.22 50.00% 50.00% -53.10%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,167,962 ops/sec 12,409,308 ops/sec 0.175 20.00% 20.00% -29.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 961.1 2,418 0.398 10.00% 10.00% -8.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,722 MB/sec 108,315 MB/sec 0.339 10.00% 10.00% -10.30%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,659 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.12 10.00% 10.00% +1.14%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,292

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,816

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3395
      Compression
      		 32836
      Encryption
      		 1926
      Extended Instructions
      		 2302
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6166
      Integer Maths
      		 8647
      Physics
      		 433
      Prime Numbers
      		 19
      Single Threaded
      		 2659
      String Sorting
      		 4366

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 961
      Database Operations
      		 1347
      Memory Latency
      		 64
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24049
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9959
      Memory Write
      		 8990

      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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      c4-highmem-4 431 GiB0
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