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c4-highmem-4 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highmem-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 31 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 31 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0421 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
31 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3485
(All-cores)
1708
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1761004
Name
c4-highmem-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 31 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-25T04:39:43.252504

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1499 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1564 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1564 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1564 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1564 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1249 USD/h 0.2711 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.136 USD/h 0.2711 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0843 USD/h 0.2737 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0988 USD/h 0.2737 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.1235 USD/h 0.2737 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.1025 USD/h 0.2841 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0421 USD/h 0.2867 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0576 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0815 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1354 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1574 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.1575 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1533 USD/h 0.2936 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1093 USD/h 0.2972 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1648 USD/h 0.3018 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0673 USD/h 0.3024 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.1365 USD/h 0.3024 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0912 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1023 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1225 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.1525 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1067 USD/h 0.3134 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1336 USD/h 0.3134 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1004 USD/h 0.3154 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.127 USD/h 0.3167 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1485 USD/h 0.3216 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1439 USD/h 0.3258 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1049 USD/h 0.3348 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1252 USD/h 0.3348 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1752 USD/h 0.3348 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0743 USD/h 0.3363 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1243 USD/h 0.3389 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1867 USD/h 0.3415 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0856 USD/h 0.3505 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1717 USD/h 0.3647 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.1722 USD/h 0.3728 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1471 USD/h 0.4139 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.061 USD/h 0.4171 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
31 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
31 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

      An x86_64 server combining high memory capacity and exceptional single-core performance with dedicated Intel Xeon processing for memory-bound workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-highmem-4 is an x86_64 server configured with 4 vCPUs across 2 physical Intel Xeon 8581C cores running at 2.3 GHz, paired with 31.0 GB of RAM. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks reveal a stark contrast between single-core and multi-core capabilities. The instance achieves top-tier results in single-core Geekbench and text processing, alongside strong single-threaded compression speeds. Conversely, multi-core benchmarks, uncached memory bandwidth, and database operations fall into the bottom 25%. This hardware profile offers a high memory-to-vCPU ratio, making it qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-intensive tasks that rely on single-threaded performance. It is best suited for text processing, light web serving, and single-threaded applications, whereas highly parallelized workloads will encounter performance bottlenecks due to weak multi-core scaling and memory bandwidth limitations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.453Score
      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) 710,353 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.375 50.00% 50.00% -38.80%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,444,640 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.299 20.00% 20.00% -21.50%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,819 2,411 0.755 10.00% 10.00% -2.77%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 73,795 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.687 10.00% 10.00% -3.68%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,541 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.08 10.00% 10.00% +0.77%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,258

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 5,040

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6351
      Compression
      		 62439
      Encryption
      		 3653
      Extended Instructions
      		 4407
      Floating Point Maths
      		 11651
      Integer Maths
      		 16413
      Physics
      		 832
      Prime Numbers
      		 36
      Single Threaded
      		 2541
      String Sorting
      		 8433

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1819
      Database Operations
      		 2359
      Memory Latency
      		 66
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22963
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7310
      Memory Write
      		 6829

      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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