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 0.0072 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
2026-09-09T15:49:46.402300

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0171 USD/h 0.0589 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0309 USD/h 0.0589 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0309 USD/h 0.0589 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0309 USD/h 0.0589 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0319 USD/h 0.0589 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0214 USD/h 0.0613 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0072 USD/h 0.0619 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.037 USD/h 0.0619 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0161 USD/h 0.0642 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0153 USD/h 0.0649 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0246 USD/h 0.0649 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0266 USD/h 0.0649 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0285 USD/h 0.0649 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0321 USD/h 0.0664 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0301 USD/h 0.0672 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0225 USD/h 0.0682 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0248 USD/h 0.0696 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.026 USD/h 0.0696 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0297 USD/h 0.0696 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0271 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
0.0416 USD/h 0.0727 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0155 USD/h 0.0737 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0376 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
0.032 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
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 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

      0.181Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0972 50.00% 50.00% -68.80%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,239,953 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.106 20.00% 20.00% -36.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,916 2,418 0.793 10.00% 10.00% -2.29%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 61,058 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.565 10.00% 10.00% -5.55%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,987 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.84 10.00% 10.00% -1.73%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,957

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,952

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1061
      Compression
      		 6138
      Encryption
      		 206
      Extended Instructions
      		 1289
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6388
      Integer Maths
      		 5536
      Physics
      		 356
      Prime Numbers
      		 17
      Single Threaded
      		 1987
      String Sorting
      		 4902

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1916
      Database Operations
      		 1660
      Memory Latency
      		 50
      Memory Read Cached
      		 21865
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 17642
      Memory Write
      		 22341

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      c4a-highcpu-1 12 GiB0
      c4a-standard-1 14 GiB0
      c4a-highcpu-2 24 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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