c4a-highmem-8 by Google Cloud Platform

c4a-highmem-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0573 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
14,529
(All-cores)
1,820
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1765214
Name
c4a-highmem-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM
Family
c4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
14
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-07T16:43:32.170274

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1369 USD/h 0.4715 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.2472 USD/h 0.4715 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.2472 USD/h 0.4715 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.2472 USD/h 0.4715 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.2553 USD/h 0.4715 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1716 USD/h 0.4904 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0573 USD/h 0.4951 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.2961 USD/h 0.4951 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.1287 USD/h 0.514 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1222 USD/h 0.5192 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.197 USD/h 0.5192 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.2128 USD/h 0.5192 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.2281 USD/h 0.5192 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.257 USD/h 0.5311 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2411 USD/h 0.5375 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1801 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1983 USD/h 0.5564 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.208 USD/h 0.5564 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.2372 USD/h 0.5564 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.2171 USD/h 0.5668 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.1483 USD/h 0.5705 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.2288 USD/h 0.5729 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.3329 USD/h 0.5817 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1238 USD/h 0.5895 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.3012 USD/h 0.6055 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1288 USD/h 0.6128 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2634 USD/h 0.6177 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.2532 USD/h 0.6341 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.2558 USD/h 0.6743 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.299 USD/h 0.7487 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 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
8
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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 ARM-powered instance featuring high memory density, top-tier memory bandwidth, and strong single-threaded compression performance for memory-intensive workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4a-highmem-8 is an ARM-based instance featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs powered by a 3.0 GHz ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 processor and 64 GB of RAM. This configuration provides a high memory-to-core ratio of 8.0 GB per vCPU. The instance does not include local storage or integrated GPUs. In benchmark testing, the c4a-highmem-8 demonstrates top-tier memory performance, with its Passmark memory score in the top 10% and large-block read-only memory bandwidth in the top 25%. Single-threaded compression and text processing also show strong results. Conversely, cryptographic performance is a notable tradeoff, scoring in the bottom 25% on the Passmark encryption test. With its high memory capacity and strong memory bandwidth, this instance is suited for memory-intensive applications, text processing, and database operations that do not require local disk storage.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.934Score
      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) 1,522,479 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.794 50.00% 50.00% -10.90%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,509,853 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.814 20.00% 20.00% -4.03%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,099 2,418 1.28 10.00% 10.00% +2.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 231,426 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 2.14 10.00% 10.00% +7.90%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,075 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.877 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,951

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 10,895

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8493
      Compression
      		 55949
      Encryption
      		 1675
      Extended Instructions
      		 10387
      Floating Point Maths
      		 51522
      Integer Maths
      		 44609
      Physics
      		 2768
      Prime Numbers
      		 134
      Single Threaded
      		 2075
      String Sorting
      		 39878

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 3099
      Database Operations
      		 13063
      Memory Latency
      		 53
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22555
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 18585
      Memory Write
      		 22686

      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

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

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      c4a-highcpu-2 24 GiB0
      c4a-standard-2 28 GiB0
      c4a-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      c4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0

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