c4-highcpu-8 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highcpu-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0572 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
8,777
(All-cores)
2,153
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1760008
Name
c4-highcpu-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-29T10:40:58.513079

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.2027 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.2031 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.2036 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.2036 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.2036 USD/h 0.3402 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1168 USD/h 0.3538 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1397 USD/h 0.3538 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.1016 USD/h 0.3572 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.1215 USD/h 0.3572 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1637 USD/h 0.3572 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.1147 USD/h 0.3708 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0587 USD/h 0.3742 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0572 USD/h 0.3746 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0988 USD/h 0.3746 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.1199 USD/h 0.3746 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1349 USD/h 0.3746 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1385 USD/h 0.3746 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1303 USD/h 0.3832 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1875 USD/h 0.3878 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.2363 USD/h 0.3939 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0608 USD/h 0.3946 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.1144 USD/h 0.3946 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1016 USD/h 0.4014 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.1159 USD/h 0.4014 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1903 USD/h 0.4014 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1208 USD/h 0.409 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1355 USD/h 0.409 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0988 USD/h 0.4116 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1116 USD/h 0.4134 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2126 USD/h 0.4197 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1361 USD/h 0.4253 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1883 USD/h 0.4369 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1944 USD/h 0.4369 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2615 USD/h 0.4369 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0816 USD/h 0.4389 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.158 USD/h 0.4423 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.264 USD/h 0.4457 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0812 USD/h 0.4575 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1884 USD/h 0.4759 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.1605 USD/h 0.4865 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1888 USD/h 0.5402 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0735 USD/h 0.5443 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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
4.1
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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 x86_64 instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing, top-tier single-core performance, and a balanced two-gigabytes-per-vCPU memory configuration.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-highcpu-8 is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance featuring 8 vCPUs and 16 GB of RAM, powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8581C processor running at 2.3 GHz. With 4 physical cores and 2 threads per core, the instance delivers strong single-core performance, scoring in the top 10% in Geekbench single-core and text processing benchmarks. Single-threaded compression tasks also perform in the top 25% tier. However, multi-core benchmarks and memory bandwidth fall into the average range, and the 2.0 GB of RAM per vCPU limits memory-intensive applications. The instance lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. It is best suited for compute-bound workloads like software compilation, text processing, single-threaded data compression, and static web serving, offering a cost-efficient profile for tasks prioritizing raw single-thread CPU execution over high memory capacity.

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      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.94Score
      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) 1,819,749 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.95 50.00% 50.00% -2.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 8,752,064 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.73 20.00% 20.00% -6.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,072 2,416 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 145,786 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,550 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,317

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 8,819

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 12,272
      Compression
      		 122,773
      Encryption
      		 7,287
      Extended Instructions
      		 8,998
      Floating Point Maths
      		 23,323
      Integer Maths
      		 32,876
      Physics
      		 1,640
      Prime Numbers
      		 72
      Single Threaded
      		 2,550
      String Sorting
      		 16,865

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,072
      Database Operations
      		 4,635
      Memory Latency
      		 60
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,864
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,993
      Memory Write
      		 9,152

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 242.71 206.17 0.85×
      bitops
      		 134,308 640,913 4.77×
      branch
      		 126,161 773,038 6.13×
      funccall
      		 693.32 3,534 5.10×
      funcret
      		 11,440 71,774 6.27×
      hash
      		 162,992 939,730 5.77×
      intmath
      		 59,460 284,298 4.78×
      nop
      		 232,916 738,061 3.17×
      prime
      		 416,819 2,017,262 4.84×
      rotate
      		 90,102 376,030 4.17×
      str
      		 788,846 4,963,212 6.29×
      wcs
      		 592,781 3,025,225 5.10×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,098 14,208 4.59×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 773.27 3,924 5.07×
      zlib
      		 48.86 293.16 6.00×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 40,598 193,055 4.76×
      clone
      		 476.41 1,811 3.80×
      context
      		 4,766 31,250 6.56×
      cpu-sched
      		 69.85 486.75 6.97×
      eventfd
      		 154,699 993,338 6.42×
      fault
      		 27,359 109,432 4.00×
      fork
      		 5,229 35,239 6.74×
      getrandom
      		 54,359 314,559 5.79×
      hrtimers
      		 136,186 928,250 6.82×
      mprotect
      		 1,165,798 2,587,676 2.22×
      mtx
      		 11,845,543 198,492,557 16.76×
      munmap
      		 4,027 25,781 6.40×
      null
      		 786,761 4,949,602 6.29×
      pipe
      		 820,363 6,331,698 7.72×
      priv-instr
      		 747,988 4,185,460 5.60×
      resched
      		 2,976,654 1,016,425 0.34×
      switch
      		 370,514 2,484,883 6.71×
      timermix
      		 196,167 1,302,598 6.64×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 12,193 19,758 1.62×
      tsc
      		 535,247 3,551,089 6.63×
      usersyscall
      		 651,452 3,618,411 5.55×
      vdso
      		 82,965,419 514,086,851 6.20×
      vfork
      		 36,600 174,222 4.76×
      x86syscall
      		 8,778,184 58,779,142 6.70×
      yield
      		 7,045,047 7,103,013 1.01×
      zero
      		 5,643,272 36,074,837 6.39×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,889 74,386 5.00×
      expmath
      		 3,239 18,753 5.79×
      fma
      		 1,198,775 6,202,245 5.17×
      fp
      		 185.75 1,117 6.01×
      fractal
      		 6 34.2 5.70×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,738 21,376 5.72×
      logmath
      		 4,778 30,027 6.28×
      matrix
      		 4,681 22,160 4.73×
      matrix-3d
      		 807.29 2,847 3.53×
      monte-carlo
      		 268.8 1,735 6.45×
      mpfr
      		 1,625 7,520 4.63×
      powmath
      		 1,711 10,380 6.07×
      trig
      		 2,458 12,916 5.25×
      veccmp
      		 23,030 106,247 4.61×
      vecfp
      		 1,400 6,738 4.81×
      vecmath
      		 3,432 19,170 5.59×
      vecshuf
      		 718.57 3,290 4.58×
      vecwide
      		 30,247 147,309 4.87×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8 37.8 4.72×
      bsearch
      		 260.58 1,417 5.44×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 4.8 6.00×
      fibsearch
      		 296.38 1,451 4.90×
      heapsort
      		 9.2 49.6 5.39×
      hsearch
      		 7,568 37,792 4.99×
      insertionsort
      		 11.8 40 3.39×
      malloc
      		 2,535,020 19,532,818 7.71×
      mcontend
      		 127.43 1,447 11.36×
      mergesort
      		 28.4 162 5.70×
      qsort
      		 19.8 110 5.56×
      skiplist
      		 4,772 30,047 6.30×
      tree
      		 1.6 9.2 5.75×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 193,321 668,060 3.46×
      cachehammer
      		 212,777 1,301,986 6.12×
      cacheline
      		 65.73 495.52 7.54×
      l1cache
      		 982.11 1,513 1.54×
      memcpy
      		 412.46 1,527 3.70×
      memrate
      		 0.12 0.92 7.67×
      memthrash
      		 176.81 322.25 1.82×
      ptr-chase
      		 28,831,654 103,944,806 3.61×
      spinmem
      		 237.98 388.34 1.63×
      stream
      		 5.4 196.45 36.38×
      vm
      		 102,244 292,290 2.86×

      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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