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c4a-highcpu-2 by Google Cloud Platform

c4a-highcpu-2 is a 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0119 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3616
(All-cores)
1819
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1765203
Name
c4a-highcpu-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM
Family
c4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
15
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-07T12:54:17.635571

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0233 USD/h 0.0758 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0344 USD/h 0.0758 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0344 USD/h 0.0758 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0344 USD/h 0.0758 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0455 USD/h 0.0758 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0264 USD/h 0.0788 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0119 USD/h 0.0795 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0358 USD/h 0.0795 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0172 USD/h 0.0826 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0208 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0285 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0333 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0333 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0396 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0413 USD/h 0.0853 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0371 USD/h 0.0864 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0403 USD/h 0.0877 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.029 USD/h 0.0894 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.032 USD/h 0.0894 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0365 USD/h 0.0894 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0304 USD/h 0.0911 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0366 USD/h 0.0917 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0368 USD/h 0.092 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0512 USD/h 0.0935 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0307 USD/h 0.0947 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0484 USD/h 0.0973 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0328 USD/h 0.0985 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0424 USD/h 0.0992 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0407 USD/h 0.1019 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0433 USD/h 0.1083 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0481 USD/h 0.1203 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0502 USD/h 0.1212 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 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
80 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
80 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, sm3, sm4, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, dit, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svepmull, svebitperm, svesha3, svesm4, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16, dgh, rng, bti
Ecpus
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 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 dedicated arm64 instance featuring strong single-threaded compression performance paired with a lightweight compute-optimized memory profile.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4a-highcpu-2 is an arm64 compute-optimized instance featuring 2 dedicated physical cores on the ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 architecture running at 3.0 GHz. It is equipped with 4.0 GB of RAM, translating to 2.0 GB per core, with no local storage or GPU resources. Performance benchmarks reveal a stark contrast between strong single-threaded capabilities—such as gzip compression at 32.27 GB/sec—and weak multi-core and cryptographic performance, highlighted by a poor Passmark CPU encryption score of 413.52. Memory write bandwidth is also limited at 21.88 GB/sec. Qualitatively, this instance provides a cost-efficient entry point for dedicated ARM compute, but its low memory density and weak multi-threaded scaling limit its suitability. It is best aligned with lightweight single-threaded processing, basic database operations, and simple web serving tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.318Score
      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) 394,616 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.207 50.00% 50.00% -54.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,405,005 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.207 20.00% 20.00% -27.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,934 2,416 0.801 10.00% 10.00% -2.19%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 99,689 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.924 10.00% 10.00% -0.79%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,074 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.877 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2155
      Compression
      		 13056
      Encryption
      		 414
      Extended Instructions
      		 2591
      Floating Point Maths
      		 12825
      Integer Maths
      		 11111
      Physics
      		 711
      Prime Numbers
      		 32
      Single Threaded
      		 2074
      String Sorting
      		 9857

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1934
      Database Operations
      		 3282
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22535
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 19032
      Memory Write
      		 22699

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

      Alternatives

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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      c4a-highcpu-1 12 GiB0
      c4a-standard-1 14 GiB0
      c4a-highmem-1 18 GiB0
      c4a-standard-2 28 GiB0
      c4a-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      c4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0
      c4a-standard-4 416 GiB0

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