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 0.0117 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,616
(All-cores)
1,819
(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
2026-11-05T22:18:35.547409

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0206 USD/h 0.0758 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0393 USD/h 0.0758 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0393 USD/h 0.0758 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0393 USD/h 0.0758 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0451 USD/h 0.0758 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0302 USD/h 0.0788 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0117 USD/h 0.0795 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0429 USD/h 0.0795 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0225 USD/h 0.0826 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0225 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0355 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0376 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0383 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0384 USD/h 0.0834 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0391 USD/h 0.0853 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0444 USD/h 0.0864 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0289 USD/h 0.0877 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0314 USD/h 0.0894 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0346 USD/h 0.0894 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0417 USD/h 0.0894 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0346 USD/h 0.0911 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0238 USD/h 0.0917 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0349 USD/h 0.092 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0561 USD/h 0.0935 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0199 USD/h 0.0947 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.048 USD/h 0.0973 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0207 USD/h 0.0985 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0278 USD/h 0.0992 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0265 USD/h 0.1019 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.043 USD/h 0.1083 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0457 USD/h 0.1203 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0727 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    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

      0.32Score
      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 1,936,298 ops/sec 0.21 50.00% 50.00% -54.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,405,005 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 0.2 20.00% 20.00% -28.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,934 2,407 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 99,689 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.91 10.00% 10.00% -0.94%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,074 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2,155
      Compression
      		 13,056
      Encryption
      		 414
      Extended Instructions
      		 2,591
      Floating Point Maths
      		 12,825
      Integer Maths
      		 11,111
      Physics
      		 711
      Prime Numbers
      		 32
      Single Threaded
      		 2,074
      String Sorting
      		 9,857

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,934
      Database Operations
      		 3,282
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,535
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 19,032
      Memory Write
      		 22,699

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 309.93 300.45 0.97×
      bitops
      		 154,877 307,337 1.98×
      branch
      		 242,864 482,311 1.99×
      funccall
      		 2,111 4,175 1.98×
      funcret
      		 36,825 73,716 2.00×
      hash
      		 166,532 329,401 1.98×
      intmath
      		 35,138 68,854 1.96×
      nop
      		 492,643 967,537 1.96×
      prime
      		 530,200 1,048,929 1.98×
      rotate
      		 143,597 283,283 1.97×
      str
      		 803,217 1,641,316 2.04×
      wcs
      		 217,069 428,925 1.98×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,707 7,443 2.01×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 791.3 1,557 1.97×
      zlib
      		 43.89 86.62 1.97×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 46,162 80,319 1.74×
      clone
      		 319.59 455.17 1.42×
      context
      		 2,796 5,504 1.97×
      cpu-sched
      		 67.69 124.9 1.85×
      eventfd
      		 107,129 328,443 3.07×
      fault
      		 22,701 37,628 1.66×
      fork
      		 5,525 10,064 1.82×
      getrandom
      		 65,989 130,663 1.98×
      hrtimers
      		 528,115 201,401 0.38×
      mprotect
      		 703,125 839,755 1.19×
      mtx
      		 8,747,891 102,797,888 11.75×
      munmap
      		 4,140 6,695 1.62×
      null
      		 480,253 944,185 1.97×
      pipe
      		 937,588 1,720,257 1.83×
      priv-instr
      		 810,600 1,692,256 2.09×
      resched
      		 220,655 144,808 0.66×
      switch
      		 195,845 872,666 4.46×
      timermix
      		 551,436 1,087,558 1.97×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 12,365 15,643 1.27×
      vdso
      		 43,175,835 85,404,111 1.98×
      vfork
      		 38,983 68,272 1.75×
      yield
      		 2,607,520 2,475,779 0.95×
      zero
      		 2,649,628 5,218,243 1.97×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 2,074 4,101 1.98×
      expmath
      		 392.4 774.22 1.97×
      fma
      		 830,093 1,641,371 1.98×
      fp
      		 165.6 324 1.96×
      fractal
      		 8.4 16.4 1.95×
      hyperbolic
      		 378.89 749.81 1.98×
      logmath
      		 459.49 908.95 1.98×
      matrix
      		 7,088 14,005 1.98×
      matrix-3d
      		 1,451 2,754 1.90×
      monte-carlo
      		 215.02 428.72 1.99×
      mpfr
      		 1,541 3,044 1.97×
      powmath
      		 266.41 526.92 1.98×
      trig
      		 509.64 1,008 1.98×
      veccmp
      		 23,345 46,191 1.98×
      vecfp
      		 1,331 2,627 1.97×
      vecmath
      		 4,757 9,416 1.98×
      vecshuf
      		 944.25 1,861 1.97×
      vecwide
      		 27,031 53,170 1.97×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 9.8 19.4 1.98×
      bsearch
      		 363.97 724.72 1.99×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 2.4 2.00×
      fibsearch
      		 390.57 772.52 1.98×
      heapsort
      		 14 27.6 1.97×
      hsearch
      		 9,146 18,432 2.02×
      insertionsort
      		 7.4 13.4 1.81×
      malloc
      		 3,029,479 6,628,240 2.19×
      mcontend
      		 469.45 2,038 4.34×
      mergesort
      		 35.8 70.6 1.97×
      qsort
      		 24 47.6 1.98×
      skiplist
      		 7,289 14,419 1.98×
      tree
      		 1.4 2.8 2.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 437,172 504,883 1.15×
      cachehammer
      		 1,937,797 3,775,516 1.95×
      cacheline
      		 36.43 74.29 2.04×
      l1cache
      		 351.89 697.74 1.98×
      memcpy
      		 766.01 1,508 1.97×
      memrate
      		 5.73 11.04 1.93×
      memthrash
      		 111.43 93.45 0.84×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,951,354 21,331,309 1.95×
      spinmem
      		 2,942 1,536 0.52×
      stream
      		 53.97 198.39 3.68×
      vm
      		 131,996 241,343 1.83×

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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