c4-highcpu-4 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highcpu-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0234 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
4,095
(All-cores)
2,060
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1760004
Name
c4-highcpu-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-10T10:51:33.849644

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.097 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.097 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.097 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.097 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1015 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0584 USD/h 0.1769 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0774 USD/h 0.1769 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0468 USD/h 0.1786 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0607 USD/h 0.1786 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0709 USD/h 0.1786 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0636 USD/h 0.1854 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0234 USD/h 0.1871 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0276 USD/h 0.1873 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.05 USD/h 0.1873 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0599 USD/h 0.1873 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0674 USD/h 0.1873 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0693 USD/h 0.1873 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0651 USD/h 0.1916 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0819 USD/h 0.1939 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1118 USD/h 0.197 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0323 USD/h 0.1973 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0572 USD/h 0.1973 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0491 USD/h 0.2007 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.056 USD/h 0.2007 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0752 USD/h 0.2007 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0512 USD/h 0.2045 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0641 USD/h 0.2045 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0494 USD/h 0.2058 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0558 USD/h 0.2067 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0921 USD/h 0.2099 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.068 USD/h 0.2126 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.085 USD/h 0.2184 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.091 USD/h 0.2184 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1255 USD/h 0.2184 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0357 USD/h 0.2194 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0977 USD/h 0.2211 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.121 USD/h 0.2228 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0411 USD/h 0.2287 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0911 USD/h 0.238 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0803 USD/h 0.2432 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0912 USD/h 0.2701 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0292 USD/h 0.2722 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
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
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
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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-focused virtual machine delivering strong single-core performance and advanced instruction sets for text processing and lightweight workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-highcpu-4 is a compute-optimized virtual machine featuring 4 vCPUs and 8 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8581C processor at 2.3 GHz, this x86_64 instance provides 2 physical cores with hyper-threading and a 260 MB L3 cache. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Benchmarks highlight top-tier single-core and text-processing capabilities, alongside strong single-threaded compression performance. Conversely, multi-core scaling and memory bandwidth are relatively weak, with memory performance ranking in the bottom 10%. This profile makes the instance highly efficient for single-threaded tasks, text processing, and lightweight web serving, while presenting clear tradeoffs for memory-heavy databases or dense multi-threaded workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.509Score
      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) 902,218 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.471 50.00% 50.00% -31.40%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,376,358 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.375 20.00% 20.00% -17.80%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,085 2,418 0.449 10.00% 10.00% -7.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 78,139 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.723 10.00% 10.00% -3.19%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,630 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.11 10.00% 10.00% +1.05%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,319

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 5,163

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6532
      Compression
      		 63998
      Encryption
      		 3804
      Extended Instructions
      		 4500
      Floating Point Maths
      		 12018
      Integer Maths
      		 16861
      Physics
      		 837
      Prime Numbers
      		 38
      Single Threaded
      		 2630
      String Sorting
      		 8653

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1085
      Database Operations
      		 2586
      Memory Latency
      		 62
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22933
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10217
      Memory Write
      		 9139

      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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