c4a-highmem-1 by Google Cloud Platform

c4a-highmem-1 is a 1 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 1 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0082 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,802
(All-cores)
1,802
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1765211
Name
c4a-highmem-1
Description
1 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM
Family
c4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
15
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T19:11:45.856137

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0132 USD/h 0.0589 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0307 USD/h 0.0589 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0307 USD/h 0.0589 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0307 USD/h 0.0589 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0351 USD/h 0.0589 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0235 USD/h 0.0613 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0082 USD/h 0.0619 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0302 USD/h 0.0619 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0175 USD/h 0.0642 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0159 USD/h 0.0649 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0271 USD/h 0.0649 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0277 USD/h 0.0649 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0308 USD/h 0.0649 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0314 USD/h 0.0649 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0337 USD/h 0.0664 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0314 USD/h 0.0672 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0225 USD/h 0.0682 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.027 USD/h 0.0696 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0271 USD/h 0.0696 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0325 USD/h 0.0696 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0269 USD/h 0.0709 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0185 USD/h 0.0713 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0286 USD/h 0.0716 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0436 USD/h 0.0727 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0155 USD/h 0.0737 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0358 USD/h 0.0757 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0161 USD/h 0.0766 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0329 USD/h 0.0772 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0317 USD/h 0.0793 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0352 USD/h 0.0843 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0374 USD/h 0.0936 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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

      An arm64 single-core virtual machine featuring a high memory-to-vCPU ratio for efficient single-threaded and memory-bound workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4a-highmem-1 is an arm64 virtual machine featuring a single dedicated ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 core running at 3.0 GHz and 8.0 GB of RAM. Lacking local storage and GPU accelerators, this instance delivers a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 1:8. Benchmark data indicates strong single-threaded performance in gzip compression and bzip3 decompression, alongside average Geekbench single-core and text processing capabilities. However, multi-core operations, software compilation, and memory write bandwidth are limited by the single-vCPU design. This server represents a qualitatively cost-efficient option for memory-bound, single-threaded workloads, lightweight text processing, and basic caching tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.18Score
      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) 186,322 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.1 50.00% 50.00% -68.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,239,953 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.1 20.00% 20.00% -37.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,916 2,416 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 61,058 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.55 10.00% 10.00% -5.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,987 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,957

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,952

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1,061
      Compression
      		 6,138
      Encryption
      		 206
      Extended Instructions
      		 1,289
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6,388
      Integer Maths
      		 5,536
      Physics
      		 356
      Prime Numbers
      		 17
      Single Threaded
      		 1,987
      String Sorting
      		 4,902

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,916
      Database Operations
      		 1,660
      Memory Latency
      		 50
      Memory Read Cached
      		 21,865
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 17,642
      Memory Write
      		 22,341

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 678.64 678.64 1.00×
      bitops
      		 153,234 153,234 1.00×
      branch
      		 240,798 240,798 1.00×
      funccall
      		 2,063 2,063 1.00×
      funcret
      		 37,060 37,060 1.00×
      hash
      		 163,604 163,604 1.00×
      intmath
      		 34,563 34,563 1.00×
      nop
      		 480,699 480,699 1.00×
      prime
      		 520,675 520,675 1.00×
      rotate
      		 140,540 140,540 1.00×
      str
      		 812,771 812,771 1.00×
      wcs
      		 213,426 213,426 1.00×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,700 3,700 1.00×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 779.04 779.04 1.00×
      zlib
      		 41.13 41.13 1.00×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 45,439 45,439 1.00×
      clone
      		 279.62 279.62 1.00×
      context
      		 2,737 2,737 1.00×
      cpu-sched
      		 69.35 69.35 1.00×
      eventfd
      		 170,434 170,434 1.00×
      fault
      		 24,355 24,355 1.00×
      fork
      		 6,797 6,797 1.00×
      getrandom
      		 64,751 64,751 1.00×
      hrtimers
      		 116,885 116,885 1.00×
      mprotect
      		 484,205 484,205 1.00×
      mtx
      		 54,731,054 54,731,054 1.00×
      munmap
      		 4,377 4,377 1.00×
      null
      		 470,566 470,566 1.00×
      pipe
      		 951,876 951,876 1.00×
      priv-instr
      		 904,167 904,167 1.00×
      resched
      		 15,194 15,194 1.00×
      switch
      		 400,612 400,612 1.00×
      timermix
      		 541,656 541,656 1.00×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 9,079 9,079 1.00×
      vdso
      		 42,314,817 42,314,817 1.00×
      vfork
      		 77,551 77,551 1.00×
      yield
      		 1,291,559 1,291,559 1.00×
      zero
      		 2,598,097 2,598,097 1.00×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 2,034 2,034 1.00×
      expmath
      		 384.23 384.23 1.00×
      fma
      		 813,686 813,686 1.00×
      fp
      		 160.8 160.8 1.00×
      fractal
      		 8.2 8.2 1.00×
      hyperbolic
      		 372.27 372.27 1.00×
      logmath
      		 450.9 450.9 1.00×
      matrix
      		 6,950 6,950 1.00×
      matrix-3d
      		 1,491 1,491 1.00×
      monte-carlo
      		 214.19 214.19 1.00×
      mpfr
      		 1,509 1,509 1.00×
      powmath
      		 261.04 261.04 1.00×
      trig
      		 497.95 497.95 1.00×
      veccmp
      		 22,921 22,921 1.00×
      vecfp
      		 1,299 1,299 1.00×
      vecmath
      		 4,669 4,669 1.00×
      vecshuf
      		 928.98 928.98 1.00×
      vecwide
      		 28,488 28,488 1.00×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 9.6 9.6 1.00×
      bsearch
      		 362.7 362.7 1.00×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 1.2 1.00×
      fibsearch
      		 384.24 384.24 1.00×
      heapsort
      		 13.6 13.6 1.00×
      hsearch
      		 9,198 9,198 1.00×
      insertionsort
      		 7 7 1.00×
      malloc
      		 3,623,836 3,623,836 1.00×
      mcontend
      		 2,307 2,307 1.00×
      mergesort
      		 35 35 1.00×
      qsort
      		 23.6 23.6 1.00×
      skiplist
      		 7,137 7,137 1.00×
      tree
      		 1.6 1.6 1.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 481,530 481,530 1.00×
      cachehammer
      		 2,013,932 2,013,932 1.00×
      cacheline
      		 23.07 23.07 1.00×
      l1cache
      		 346.8 346.8 1.00×
      memcpy
      		 744.05 744.05 1.00×
      memrate
      		 5.53 5.53 1.00×
      memthrash
      		 66.72 66.72 1.00×
      ptr-chase
      		 23,293,417 23,293,417 1.00×
      spinmem
      		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
      stream
      		 56.3 56.3 1.00×
      vm
      		 148,265 148,265 1.00×

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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