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 0.0188 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
15 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,961
(All-cores)
1,886
(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
26
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T05:25:30.931353

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0728 USD/h 0.1284 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0766 USD/h 0.1284 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0768 USD/h 0.1284 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0768 USD/h 0.1284 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0768 USD/h 0.1284 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0441 USD/h 0.1335 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0555 USD/h 0.1335 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0333 USD/h 0.1348 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0458 USD/h 0.1348 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0588 USD/h 0.1348 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0456 USD/h 0.1399 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0258 USD/h 0.1412 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0188 USD/h 0.1413 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0375 USD/h 0.1413 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0452 USD/h 0.1413 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0509 USD/h 0.1413 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0523 USD/h 0.1413 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0492 USD/h 0.1446 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0675 USD/h 0.1463 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.084 USD/h 0.1486 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0219 USD/h 0.1489 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0432 USD/h 0.1489 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0447 USD/h 0.1515 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.051 USD/h 0.1515 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0678 USD/h 0.1515 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0685 USD/h 0.1515 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0384 USD/h 0.1543 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0481 USD/h 0.1543 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0373 USD/h 0.1553 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0421 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0764 USD/h 0.1584 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0513 USD/h 0.1605 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0739 USD/h 0.1649 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0829 USD/h 0.1649 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0987 USD/h 0.1649 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0359 USD/h 0.1656 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0695 USD/h 0.1669 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0951 USD/h 0.1682 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0357 USD/h 0.1726 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0829 USD/h 0.1796 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0606 USD/h 0.1836 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0717 USD/h 0.2038 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0241 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
50

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 dual-vCPU instance featuring strong single-threaded performance and advanced Intel Xeon instruction sets for memory-bound workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-highmem-2 is an x86_64 virtual machine featuring 2 vCPUs and 15 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8581C processor operating at 2.3 GHz. This configuration provides a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 7.5 GB per core, backed by a single physical core with hyper-threading. Benchmark data highlights exceptional single-core performance, particularly in single-threaded compression and Geekbench single-core tests, though multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics remain low due to the dual-vCPU limit. The server includes advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX, but lacks local storage and complimentary public IPv4 addresses. It represents a qualitatively cost-efficient option for memory-intensive, single-threaded workloads, lightweight caching, and basic database operations that do not require high parallel processing power.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.3Score
      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) 438,737 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.23 50.00% 50.00% -52.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,120,331 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.17 20.00% 20.00% -30.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,575 2,417 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,507 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.34 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,791 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      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

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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