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 0.026 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
2026-10-25T13:42:08.775391

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1013 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1015 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1018 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1018 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1018 USD/h 0.1701 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0584 USD/h 0.1769 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0735 USD/h 0.1769 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0534 USD/h 0.1786 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0607 USD/h 0.1786 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.078 USD/h 0.1786 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0604 USD/h 0.1854 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0309 USD/h 0.1871 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.026 USD/h 0.1873 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.052 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
0.0893 USD/h 0.1939 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1182 USD/h 0.197 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.032 USD/h 0.1973 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0572 USD/h 0.1973 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0535 USD/h 0.2007 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.061 USD/h 0.2007 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0906 USD/h 0.2007 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0616 USD/h 0.2045 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0636 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
0.1012 USD/h 0.2099 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.068 USD/h 0.2126 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0991 USD/h 0.2184 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1023 USD/h 0.2184 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1307 USD/h 0.2184 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.043 USD/h 0.2194 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0832 USD/h 0.2211 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1257 USD/h 0.2228 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0428 USD/h 0.2287 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0992 USD/h 0.238 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0803 USD/h 0.2432 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0994 USD/h 0.2701 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0387 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
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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 compute-optimized instance delivering strong single-core performance and advanced matrix extensions for memory-light, CPU-intensive workloads.

      Compute Optimized

      The Google Cloud Platform c4-highcpu-4 is a compute-optimized virtual machine instance featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs and 8.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8581C processor running at 2.3 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it includes a 260 MB L3 cache and supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX. While the instance delivers top-tier single-core performance in Geekbench and text processing benchmarks, its multi-core capabilities and memory bandwidth are relatively weak, as evidenced by low Passmark memory and multi-threaded decompression scores. Lacking local storage and GPUs, this instance is highly cost-efficient for compute-heavy, single-threaded workloads with low memory footprints. It is best suited for lightweight web serving, single-threaded data processing, and small-scale machine learning inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.51Score
      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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.47 50.00% 50.00% -31.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,376,358 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.37 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,085 2,416 0.46 10.00% 10.00% -7.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 78,139 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,630 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,319

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 5,163

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6,532
      Compression
      		 63,998
      Encryption
      		 3,804
      Extended Instructions
      		 4,500
      Floating Point Maths
      		 12,018
      Integer Maths
      		 16,861
      Physics
      		 837
      Prime Numbers
      		 38
      Single Threaded
      		 2,630
      String Sorting
      		 8,653

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,085
      Database Operations
      		 2,586
      Memory Latency
      		 62
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,933
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,217
      Memory Write
      		 9,139

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 234.78 254.38 1.08×
      bitops
      		 139,061 335,249 2.41×
      branch
      		 130,971 401,517 3.07×
      funccall
      		 705.22 1,878 2.66×
      funcret
      		 11,931 36,986 3.10×
      hash
      		 166,505 491,870 2.95×
      intmath
      		 60,980 146,483 2.40×
      nop
      		 247,961 394,843 1.59×
      prime
      		 451,759 1,084,137 2.40×
      rotate
      		 92,941 199,816 2.15×
      str
      		 854,171 2,429,289 2.84×
      wcs
      		 635,999 1,628,132 2.56×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,147 7,245 2.30×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 783.32 2,144 2.74×
      zlib
      		 55.04 179.66 3.26×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 41,922 116,236 2.77×
      clone
      		 452.49 912.81 2.02×
      context
      		 4,842 16,014 3.31×
      cpu-sched
      		 53.74 281.21 5.23×
      eventfd
      		 130,879 506,706 3.87×
      fault
      		 27,951 66,170 2.37×
      fork
      		 5,570 20,911 3.75×
      getrandom
      		 54,264 160,967 2.97×
      hrtimers
      		 361,133 518,255 1.44×
      mprotect
      		 1,116,527 1,323,632 1.19×
      mtx
      		 12,707,006 132,037,406 10.39×
      munmap
      		 4,461 14,827 3.32×
      null
      		 845,606 2,652,357 3.14×
      pipe
      		 839,207 3,354,473 4.00×
      priv-instr
      		 774,448 2,155,057 2.78×
      resched
      		 1,251,131 693,905 0.55×
      switch
      		 457,435 1,276,912 2.79×
      timermix
      		 201,260 656,421 3.26×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,659 11,224 1.30×
      tsc
      		 553,041 1,823,491 3.30×
      usersyscall
      		 661,168 1,848,812 2.80×
      vdso
      		 85,233,573 264,197,376 3.10×
      vfork
      		 42,098 124,580 2.96×
      x86syscall
      		 9,464,983 31,809,796 3.36×
      yield
      		 4,028,789 3,826,645 0.95×
      zero
      		 6,131,627 19,748,681 3.22×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,925 39,818 2.67×
      expmath
      		 3,273 9,552 2.92×
      fma
      		 1,206,377 3,165,434 2.62×
      fp
      		 203.17 546.75 2.69×
      fractal
      		 6 17.4 2.90×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,842 10,872 2.83×
      logmath
      		 4,921 15,242 3.10×
      matrix
      		 4,539 11,187 2.46×
      matrix-3d
      		 809.88 1,882 2.32×
      monte-carlo
      		 278.98 901.54 3.23×
      mpfr
      		 1,642 3,775 2.30×
      powmath
      		 1,827 5,535 3.03×
      trig
      		 2,548 6,646 2.61×
      veccmp
      		 23,523 54,064 2.30×
      vecfp
      		 1,420 3,604 2.54×
      vecmath
      		 3,728 10,359 2.78×
      vecshuf
      		 778.11 1,746 2.24×
      vecwide
      		 31,496 77,705 2.47×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8.2 20 2.44×
      bsearch
      		 266.68 699.13 2.62×
      bubblesort
      		 1 2.4 2.40×
      fibsearch
      		 305.52 754.59 2.47×
      heapsort
      		 9.6 25.6 2.67×
      hsearch
      		 7,636 19,460 2.55×
      insertionsort
      		 12 21 1.75×
      malloc
      		 2,834,198 11,192,058 3.95×
      mcontend
      		 162.5 743.63 4.58×
      mergesort
      		 28.6 82.6 2.89×
      qsort
      		 20.6 57.4 2.79×
      skiplist
      		 5,180 16,378 3.16×
      tree
      		 1.6 4.8 3.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 288,888 469,893 1.63×
      cachehammer
      		 228,098 736,865 3.23×
      cacheline
      		 49.31 205.76 4.17×
      l1cache
      		 1,057 789.18 0.75×
      memcpy
      		 424.11 782.36 1.84×
      memrate
      		 0.13 0.5 3.85×
      memthrash
      		 111.17 196.09 1.76×
      ptr-chase
      		 32,797,254 113,690,989 3.47×
      spinmem
      		 240.59 179.39 0.75×
      stream
      		 6.93 68.01 9.81×
      vm
      		 133,590 269,177 2.01×

      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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