c4-highmem-32-lssd by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highmem-32-lssd is a 32 vCPUs, 248 GB RAM, 5 local SSDs server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 32 vCPUs, 248 GiB of memory and 1.75 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3569 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
248 GiB Memory
1.75 TB Storage
Spare SCore
36,534
(All-cores)
2,301
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
999914032
Name
c4-highmem-32-lssd
Description
32 vCPUs, 248 GB RAM, 5 local SSDs
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
43
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-06T22:27:52.872696

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
1.1327 USD/h 2.0854 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
1.2451 USD/h 2.0854 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
1.2513 USD/h 2.0854 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
1.2513 USD/h 2.0854 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
1.2513 USD/h 2.0854 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.7158 USD/h 2.1688 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.9493 USD/h 2.1689 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.6042 USD/h 2.1896 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.7445 USD/h 2.1897 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.869 USD/h 2.1897 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.7795 USD/h 2.2731 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.3569 USD/h 2.2963 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.7349 USD/h 2.2963 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.8268 USD/h 2.2963 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.8493 USD/h 2.2963 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.7986 USD/h 2.3488 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.913 USD/h 2.3774 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
1.3056 USD/h 2.4147 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.4164 USD/h 2.4191 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.7014 USD/h 2.4191 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.6338 USD/h 2.4608 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.7223 USD/h 2.4608 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.9707 USD/h 2.4608 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.66 USD/h 2.5069 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.8271 USD/h 2.5069 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
1.1287 USD/h 2.5728 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.8341 USD/h 2.6068 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
1.0966 USD/h 2.6781 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
1.4646 USD/h 2.6781 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
1.1403 USD/h 2.7111 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
1.5609 USD/h 2.7321 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.5302 USD/h 2.8043 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
1.1753 USD/h 2.9173 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.984 USD/h 2.9822 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
1.1178 USD/h 3.3114 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
6985P-C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
504 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
504 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, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, vmx, 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, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, 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, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, pku, ospke, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, bus_lock_detect, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, tsxldtrk, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, flush_l1d, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
15.9
Scalability
99.38

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
248 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
248 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1745 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    • 402 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 memory-optimized x86 server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors, dense RAM, and high-speed local NVMe SSD storage for demanding database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Google Cloud Platform c4-highmem-32-lssd is a memory-optimized server configured with 32 dedicated vCPUs and 248.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 6985P-C processor. Built on the x86_64 architecture, this instance features a 504 MB L3 cache and supports advanced vector and matrix extensions like AVX-512 and Intel AMX. It includes 1745 GB of local NVMe SSD storage across five drives, but lacks GPU acceleration. Benchmarks indicate top-tier single-core performance, strong multi-core execution, and high memory bandwidth, with particularly fast single-threaded compression and decompression. This hardware profile offers excellent qualitative cost efficiency for memory-heavy operations by combining dense RAM with high-speed local storage. It is highly suited for in-memory databases, Redis caching layers, text and image processing, and high-throughput web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    3.05Score
    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) 8,257,174 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 4.31 50.00% 50.00% +108.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 42,259,274 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 3.62 20.00% 20.00% +29.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,796 2,418 1.16 10.00% 10.00% +1.50%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 228,391 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 2.11 10.00% 10.00% +7.75%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,525 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.49 10.00% 10.00% +4.07%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,307

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 18,257

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 53228
    Compression
    		 656733
    Encryption
    		 37477
    Extended Instructions
    		 44088
    Floating Point Maths
    		 122471
    Integer Maths
    		 169115
    Physics
    		 6687
    Prime Numbers
    		 364
    Single Threaded
    		 3525
    String Sorting
    		 85397

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2796
    Database Operations
    		 17024
    Memory Latency
    		 62
    Memory Read Cached
    		 30777
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 17976
    Memory Write
    		 8880

    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-highcpu-4 48 GiB0
    c4-standard-4 415 GiB0
    c4-standard-4-lssd 415 GiB0
    c4-highmem-4 431 GiB0

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