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c4-highmem-2 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highmem-2 is a 2 vCPUs, 15 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 15 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0218 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
15 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1961
(All-cores)
1886
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1761002
Name
c4-highmem-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 15 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
32
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-08T10:48:17.230984

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0671 USD/h 0.1284 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0741 USD/h 0.1284 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0741 USD/h 0.1284 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0741 USD/h 0.1284 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0741 USD/h 0.1284 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0615 USD/h 0.1335 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0638 USD/h 0.1335 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0437 USD/h 0.1348 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0486 USD/h 0.1348 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0608 USD/h 0.1348 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0505 USD/h 0.1399 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0218 USD/h 0.1412 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0299 USD/h 0.1413 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0422 USD/h 0.1413 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0606 USD/h 0.1413 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0738 USD/h 0.1413 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0816 USD/h 0.1413 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0755 USD/h 0.1446 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0566 USD/h 0.1463 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0854 USD/h 0.1486 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0349 USD/h 0.1489 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0672 USD/h 0.1489 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0473 USD/h 0.1515 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.053 USD/h 0.1515 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0635 USD/h 0.1515 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0751 USD/h 0.1515 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0553 USD/h 0.1543 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0692 USD/h 0.1543 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.052 USD/h 0.1553 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0568 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0731 USD/h 0.1584 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0746 USD/h 0.1605 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0469 USD/h 0.1649 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0649 USD/h 0.1649 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0908 USD/h 0.1649 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0333 USD/h 0.1656 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0645 USD/h 0.1669 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0876 USD/h 0.1682 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0444 USD/h 0.1726 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.089 USD/h 0.1796 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0848 USD/h 0.1836 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0724 USD/h 0.2038 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0316 USD/h 0.2054 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
15 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
15 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 memory-optimized virtual server featuring strong single-core performance and advanced matrix extensions for specialized, low-concurrency workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-highmem-2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine instance configured with 2 vCPUs and 15 GB of RAM, providing 7.5 GB of memory per core. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it utilizes a dedicated Intel Xeon 8581C processor running at 2.3 GHz with 1 physical core and 2 threads. While the instance lacks local storage and GPU accelerators, it features advanced CPU instructions like Intel AMX and AVX-512. Benchmark results highlight strong single-core performance, including single-threaded gzip compression and text processing. However, multi-core execution and uncached memory bandwidth are relatively weak. This profile makes the c4-highmem-2 qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-dependent, single-threaded workloads, text processing, and lightweight database operations rather than highly parallelized or memory-bandwidth-intensive tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,229

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,739

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      3591
      Compression
      34658
      Encryption
      2064
      Extended Instructions
      2457
      Floating Point Maths
      6351
      Integer Maths
      9073
      Physics
      474
      Prime Numbers
      20
      Single Threaded
      2791
      String Sorting
      4711

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      1575
      Database Operations
      1441
      Memory Latency
      65
      Memory Read Cached
      25610
      Memory Read Uncached
      7712
      Memory Write
      7267

      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-standard-4-lssd 415 GiB0
      c4-highmem-4 431 GiB0
      c4-highmem-4-lssd 431 GiB0

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