c4-highmem-16 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highmem-16 is a 16 vCPUs, 124 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 124 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1707 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
124 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
13,918
(All-cores)
1,772
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1761016
Name
c4-highmem-16
Description
16 vCPUs, 124 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
25
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-08T15:43:43.040728

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.6211 USD/h 1.0427 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.6225 USD/h 1.0427 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.6241 USD/h 1.0427 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.6241 USD/h 1.0427 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.6241 USD/h 1.0427 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.3579 USD/h 1.0844 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.4069 USD/h 1.0845 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.2955 USD/h 1.0948 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.3723 USD/h 1.0948 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.4766 USD/h 1.0948 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.3341 USD/h 1.1366 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.1707 USD/h 1.147 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1928 USD/h 1.1481 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.2875 USD/h 1.1481 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.3675 USD/h 1.1481 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.4134 USD/h 1.1481 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.4247 USD/h 1.1481 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.3993 USD/h 1.1744 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.5458 USD/h 1.1887 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.7244 USD/h 1.2074 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.177 USD/h 1.2095 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.3507 USD/h 1.2095 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.5507 USD/h 1.2303 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.2959 USD/h 1.2304 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.3375 USD/h 1.2304 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.5538 USD/h 1.2304 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.4074 USD/h 1.2534 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.4361 USD/h 1.2534 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.3028 USD/h 1.2616 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.3421 USD/h 1.2669 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.6192 USD/h 1.2864 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.4171 USD/h 1.3034 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.5483 USD/h 1.3391 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.5659 USD/h 1.3391 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.8013 USD/h 1.3391 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.2375 USD/h 1.3451 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.46 USD/h 1.3555 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.8195 USD/h 1.366 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.2365 USD/h 1.4021 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.5487 USD/h 1.4586 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.492 USD/h 1.4911 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.6362 USD/h 1.6557 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.2475 USD/h 1.6683 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 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
7.9
Scalability
49.38

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
124 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
124 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 memory-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and high memory density for database and text processing workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-highmem-16 is a memory-optimized instance featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and 124 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8581C processor running at 2.3 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it provides 8 physical cores with hyper-threading and a 260 MB L3 cache. The instance does not include local storage or GPUs. Performance benchmarks show top-tier single-core and text processing capabilities, alongside strong single-threaded compression speeds. Multi-core performance and memory bandwidth remain in the average tier. With a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 7.75 GB per core, this instance offers qualitative resource density for memory-intensive workloads. It is highly suited for database operations, text processing, software compilation, and small-to-medium scale LLM inference tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.5Score
      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) 3,462,911 ops/sec 1,922,940 ops/sec 1.8 50.00% 50.00% +34.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 17,046,295 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 1.4 20.00% 20.00% +7.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,163 2,406 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 152,916 MB/sec 108,657 MB/sec 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,729 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,250

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 13,151

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 24,574
      Compression
      		 259,462
      Encryption
      		 15,647
      Extended Instructions
      		 19,201
      Floating Point Maths
      		 49,828
      Integer Maths
      		 70,404
      Physics
      		 3,484
      Prime Numbers
      		 154
      Single Threaded
      		 2,729
      String Sorting
      		 36,148

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,163
      Database Operations
      		 8,434
      Memory Latency
      		 63
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,397
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7,534
      Memory Write
      		 7,241

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 248.92 196.67 0.79×
      bitops
      		 136,793 1,278,417 9.35×
      branch
      		 128,870 1,530,369 11.88×
      funccall
      		 694.14 6,818 9.82×
      funcret
      		 11,466 140,157 12.22×
      hash
      		 163,618 1,844,714 11.27×
      intmath
      		 59,570 548,672 9.21×
      nop
      		 246,968 1,497,803 6.06×
      prime
      		 439,932 4,041,009 9.19×
      rotate
      		 91,592 748,909 8.18×
      str
      		 869,878 9,630,062 11.07×
      wcs
      		 637,695 6,251,995 9.80×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,109 27,772 8.93×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 776.21 7,936 10.22×
      zlib
      		 47.17 761.35 16.14×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 39,284 294,922 7.51×
      clone
      		 483.92 2,986 6.17×
      context
      		 4,790 60,623 12.66×
      cpu-sched
      		 60.37 1,066 17.66×
      eventfd
      		 154,300 910,455 5.90×
      fault
      		 29,347 214,032 7.29×
      fork
      		 5,321 58,610 11.02×
      getrandom
      		 54,344 616,870 11.35×
      hrtimers
      		 161,660 2,149,366 13.30×
      mprotect
      		 1,171,402 4,952,862 4.23×
      mtx
      		 11,785,182 419,523,478 35.60×
      munmap
      		 4,217 47,793 11.33×
      null
      		 827,744 10,090,033 12.19×
      pipe
      		 850,203 11,523,245 13.55×
      priv-instr
      		 773,701 8,060,122 10.42×
      resched
      		 7,336,031 1,310,857 0.18×
      switch
      		 816,895 4,904,588 6.00×
      timermix
      		 200,735 2,537,659 12.64×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 10,428 39,351 3.77×
      tsc
      		 535,735 6,889,398 12.86×
      usersyscall
      		 656,852 7,055,412 10.74×
      vdso
      		 83,228,571 998,508,546 12.00×
      vfork
      		 38,545 270,943 7.03×
      x86syscall
      		 9,248,722 119,188,072 12.89×
      yield
      		 13,956,612 16,660,229 1.19×
      zero
      		 5,990,081 73,015,267 12.19×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,920 145,781 9.77×
      expmath
      		 3,246 36,417 11.22×
      fma
      		 1,204,598 12,126,653 10.07×
      fp
      		 199.2 2,169 10.89×
      fractal
      		 6 66.6 11.10×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,752 41,724 11.12×
      logmath
      		 4,789 58,554 12.23×
      matrix
      		 4,465 41,618 9.32×
      matrix-3d
      		 779.04 4,465 5.73×
      monte-carlo
      		 269.15 3,293 12.24×
      mpfr
      		 1,617 14,359 8.88×
      powmath
      		 1,813 21,198 11.69×
      trig
      		 2,469 25,159 10.19×
      veccmp
      		 23,081 206,297 8.94×
      vecfp
      		 1,411 13,636 9.67×
      vecmath
      		 3,615 39,428 10.91×
      vecshuf
      		 760.77 6,683 8.78×
      vecwide
      		 31,341 296,083 9.45×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8 73.6 9.20×
      bsearch
      		 265.67 2,829 10.65×
      bubblesort
      		 1 9.6 9.60×
      fibsearch
      		 301.65 2,854 9.46×
      heapsort
      		 9.2 96 10.43×
      hsearch
      		 7,574 73,570 9.71×
      insertionsort
      		 11.8 82.2 6.97×
      malloc
      		 2,753,354 29,433,507 10.69×
      mcontend
      		 115.65 2,857 24.71×
      mergesort
      		 28.2 311.39 11.04×
      qsort
      		 20.4 220.59 10.81×
      skiplist
      		 5,028 61,304 12.19×
      tree
      		 1.6 17.99 11.24×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 226,096 1,148,362 5.08×
      cachehammer
      		 215,239 2,601,823 12.09×
      cacheline
      		 60.92 1,002 16.45×
      l1cache
      		 1,005 2,942 2.93×
      memcpy
      		 409.09 3,130 7.65×
      memrate
      		 0.13 1.88 14.46×
      memthrash
      		 178.16 600.78 3.37×
      ptr-chase
      		 32,651,012 210,440,265 6.45×
      spinmem
      		 232.79 745.53 3.20×
      stream
      		 5.73 634.33 110.70×
      vm
      		 115,440 293,888 2.55×

      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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