c4-highmem-4-lssd by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highmem-4-lssd is a 4 vCPUs, 31 GB RAM, 1 local SSD server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 31 GiB of memory and 137 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0424 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
31 GiB Memory
137 GB Storage
Spare SCore
4,550
(All-cores)
2,241
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
999914004
Name
c4-highmem-4-lssd
Description
4 vCPUs, 31 GB RAM, 1 local SSD
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-08T12:00:23.883353

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1486 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1486 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1486 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1487 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1556 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0895 USD/h 0.2711 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1187 USD/h 0.2711 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0718 USD/h 0.2737 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0931 USD/h 0.2737 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1086 USD/h 0.2737 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0974 USD/h 0.2841 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0424 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0919 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1034 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1062 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0998 USD/h 0.2936 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1255 USD/h 0.2972 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1714 USD/h 0.3018 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0494 USD/h 0.3024 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0877 USD/h 0.3024 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0752 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0858 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1153 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0784 USD/h 0.3134 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0982 USD/h 0.3134 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1411 USD/h 0.3216 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1043 USD/h 0.3258 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1302 USD/h 0.3348 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1922 USD/h 0.3348 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1497 USD/h 0.3389 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1854 USD/h 0.3415 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.063 USD/h 0.3505 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1395 USD/h 0.3647 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.123 USD/h 0.3728 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1397 USD/h 0.4139 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
6985P-C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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
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
    137 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 137 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An x86 server pairing dedicated Intel Xeon processing and local NVMe storage with a high memory-to-core ratio for low-parallelism workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Google Cloud Platform c4-highmem-4-lssd is an x86_64 server featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs from an Intel Xeon 6985P-C processor with a 504 MB L3 cache, 31.0 GB of RAM, and a 137 GB local NVMe SSD. Single-core performance is average, with strong single-threaded gzip compression and text processing. However, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth are weak, with large-block read bandwidth falling into the bottom 10%. The server supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX. It is qualitatively cost-efficient for workloads needing high memory-to-vCPU ratios and fast local storage without heavy parallel processing demands. Best-fit workloads include Redis caching, where it handles 7.38 million SET operations per second, light database tasks, and small-scale LLM inference.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.467Score
    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) 876,566 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.457 50.00% 50.00% -32.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,242,846 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.363 20.00% 20.00% -18.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,594 2,418 0.659 10.00% 10.00% -4.08%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,324 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.197 10.00% 10.00% -15.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,407 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.44 10.00% 10.00% +3.71%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,858

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,215

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 8005
    Compression
    		 87387
    Encryption
    		 4729
    Extended Instructions
    		 5631
    Floating Point Maths
    		 15722
    Integer Maths
    		 21676
    Physics
    		 645
    Prime Numbers
    		 29
    Single Threaded
    		 3407
    String Sorting
    		 10411

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1594
    Database Operations
    		 2088
    Memory Latency
    		 100
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26571
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9988
    Memory Write
    		 5627

    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

    Alternatives

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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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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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