c4-highmem-288-lssd-metal by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highmem-288-lssd-metal is a 288 vCPUs, 2232 GB RAM, 6 local SSDs server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 288 vCPUs, 2232 GiB of memory and 16.2 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 3.2253 USD per hour.
288 vCPU
2232 GiB Memory
16.2 TB Storage
Spare SCore
313,267
(All-cores)
2,301
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
999919288
Name
c4-highmem-288-lssd-metal
Description
288 vCPUs, 2232 GB RAM, 6 local SSDs
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-09T04:24:50.307588

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
10.6988 USD/h 18.7688 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
10.6988 USD/h 18.7688 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
10.6988 USD/h 18.7688 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
10.704 USD/h 18.7688 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
11.2055 USD/h 18.7688 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
7.8214 USD/h 19.7073 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
7.4413 USD/h 20.6663 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
7.1876 USD/h 21.1393 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
6.3126 USD/h 21.7718 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
5.4178 USD/h 22.1472 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
6.1759 USD/h 22.1472 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
10.1586 USD/h 23.1551 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
3.2253 USD/h 30.0301 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
288
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
144
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
6985P-C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
7 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
9 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
288 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
504 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
1008 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, dts, acpi, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, tm, pbe, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, art, arch_perfmon, pebs, bts, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, dtes64, monitor, ds_cpl, vmx, smx, est, tm2, ssse3, sdbg, fma, cx16, xtpr, pdcm, pcid, dca, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, cpuid_fault, epb, cat_l3, cat_l2, cdp_l3, intel_ppin, cdp_l2, ssbd, mba, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, sgx, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, cqm, rdt_a, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, intel_pt, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, cqm_llc, cqm_occup_llc, cqm_mbm_total, cqm_mbm_local, split_lock_detect, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, wbnoinvd, dtherm, ida, arat, pln, pts, hwp, hwp_act_window, hwp_epp, hwp_pkg_req, hfi, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, pku, ospke, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, tme, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, bus_lock_detect, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, enqcmd, sgx_lc, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, tsxldtrk, pconfig, arch_lbr, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, flush_l1d, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
136.1
Scalability
94.51

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 TB
Memory Amount Actual
2 TB
Memory Generation
DDR5
Memory Speed
6400 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    16242 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 137 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A bare-metal platform combining massive DDR5 memory capacity with high-speed local NVMe storage for intensive database and multi-threaded workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseCompute Optimized

    Google Cloud Platform c4-highmem-288-lssd-metal is a bare-metal server configured with 288 vCPUs on 144 physical Intel Xeon 6985P-C cores running at 4.2 GHz. It features 2232 GB of 6 GHz DDR5 memory and 16242 GB of local NVMe SSD storage across six drives, with no GPU included. The server delivers top-tier multi-core CPU and memory bandwidth performance, as demonstrated by a stress-ng multi-core score of 313266.86 and a Redis SET throughput of 422.06 million operations per second. However, single-core execution and LLM text generation speeds are relatively limited. This hardware profile is optimized for memory-intensive databases, large-scale data processing, and high-throughput enterprise workloads that benefit from direct bare-metal access and high-speed local storage.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    13.2Score
    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) 51,125,150 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 26.7 50.00% 50.00% +417.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 270,263,745 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 23.1 20.00% 20.00% +87.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,860 2,418 1.18 10.00% 10.00% +1.67%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 1,362,481 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 12.6 10.00% 10.00% +28.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,545 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.14%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,340

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 15,235

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 178742
    Compression
    		 5621202
    Encryption
    		 329505
    Extended Instructions
    		 383740
    Floating Point Maths
    		 1082873
    Integer Maths
    		 1493600
    Physics
    		 47941
    Prime Numbers
    		 3094
    Single Threaded
    		 3545
    String Sorting
    		 735627

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2860
    Database Operations
    		 39491
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 30717
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 16589
    Memory Write
    		 8398

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

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