c4a-standard-16 by Google Cloud Platform

c4a-standard-16 is a 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1054 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
29,084
(All-cores)
1,819
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1765197
Name
c4a-standard-16
Description
16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM
Family
c4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T23:53:37.880089

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1776 USD/h 0.7184 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.3551 USD/h 0.7184 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.3551 USD/h 0.7184 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.3551 USD/h 0.7184 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.4279 USD/h 0.7184 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.3012 USD/h 0.7471 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1054 USD/h 0.7543 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.3871 USD/h 0.7543 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.2029 USD/h 0.7831 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.2034 USD/h 0.791 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.3302 USD/h 0.791 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.3539 USD/h 0.791 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.3754 USD/h 0.791 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.3826 USD/h 0.791 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.3907 USD/h 0.8091 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.4012 USD/h 0.8189 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.2745 USD/h 0.8318 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.3133 USD/h 0.8477 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.3458 USD/h 0.8477 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.4162 USD/h 0.8477 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.3449 USD/h 0.8636 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.226 USD/h 0.8692 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.3488 USD/h 0.8729 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.5317 USD/h 0.8863 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1887 USD/h 0.8981 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.414 USD/h 0.9226 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1962 USD/h 0.9338 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.4015 USD/h 0.9411 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.386 USD/h 0.966 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.4289 USD/h 1.0273 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.4558 USD/h 1.1407 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.6294 USD/h 1.1498 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 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
16
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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 instance featuring dedicated physical cores and top-tier memory bandwidth for balanced, predictable general-purpose computing.

      General PurposeCompute Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform c4a-standard-16 is an arm64 virtual machine powered by a 16-core ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 processor running at 3.0 GHz. It features 16 dedicated vCPUs with no hyperthreading, paired with 64.0 GB of RAM, establishing a balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-memory ratio. This instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. In benchmark evaluations, the c4a-standard-16 exhibits top-tier memory performance, highlighted by a Passmark memory score in the top 10% and strong uncached large-block memory bandwidth. While single-core stress-ng and web serving throughput align with average tiers, its multi-core capabilities and high memory throughput make it highly efficient for memory-sensitive workloads. The instance is suited for database operations, text processing, web serving, and general-purpose ARM-native applications.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.5Score
      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) 2,949,043 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.5 50.00% 50.00% +22.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 18,990,745 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.6 20.00% 20.00% +9.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,185 2,416 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 291,885 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.6 10.00% 10.00% +10.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,072 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,921

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 16,780

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 16,039
      Compression
      		 112,831
      Encryption
      		 3,335
      Extended Instructions
      		 20,824
      Floating Point Maths
      		 102,943
      Integer Maths
      		 89,289
      Physics
      		 5,195
      Prime Numbers
      		 226
      Single Threaded
      		 2,072
      String Sorting
      		 79,433

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 3,185
      Database Operations
      		 25,752
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,340
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 18,060
      Memory Write
      		 22,686

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 225.4 114.01 0.51×
      bitops
      		 154,873 2,474,481 15.98×
      branch
      		 242,942 3,882,942 15.98×
      funccall
      		 2,111 33,721 15.97×
      funcret
      		 37,272 586,236 15.73×
      hash
      		 166,640 2,660,682 15.97×
      intmath
      		 35,023 557,278 15.91×
      nop
      		 486,163 7,857,811 16.16×
      prime
      		 530,138 8,472,753 15.98×
      rotate
      		 143,587 2,286,478 15.92×
      str
      		 830,396 13,260,079 15.97×
      wcs
      		 217,386 3,465,833 15.94×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,709 59,121 15.94×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 792.55 12,555 15.84×
      zlib
      		 31.24 650.91 20.84×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 44,659 422,808 9.47×
      clone
      		 482.8 3,092 6.40×
      context
      		 2,637 43,888 16.64×
      cpu-sched
      		 66.89 1,017 15.21×
      eventfd
      		 112,760 1,426,175 12.65×
      fault
      		 21,003 225,458 10.73×
      fork
      		 5,124 51,208 9.99×
      getrandom
      		 66,004 1,055,132 15.99×
      hrtimers
      		 175,126 2,231,955 12.74×
      mprotect
      		 947,645 6,387,313 6.74×
      mtx
      		 8,824,870 800,253,126 90.68×
      munmap
      		 3,898 47,108 12.09×
      null
      		 457,587 7,562,230 16.53×
      pipe
      		 983,057 11,695,316 11.90×
      priv-instr
      		 836,162 10,039,867 12.01×
      resched
      		 5,868,005 1,885,012 0.32×
      switch
      		 195,666 8,088,785 41.34×
      timermix
      		 562,215 9,036,761 16.07×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 17,708 106,668 6.02×
      vdso
      		 43,629,986 696,984,828 15.97×
      vfork
      		 44,053 269,184 6.11×
      yield
      		 20,432,365 20,947,413 1.03×
      zero
      		 2,590,486 42,074,164 16.24×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 2,074 33,138 15.98×
      expmath
      		 392.49 6,268 15.97×
      fma
      		 830,378 13,265,307 15.98×
      fp
      		 165.6 2,619 15.82×
      fractal
      		 8.4 131.2 15.62×
      hyperbolic
      		 379.03 6,054 15.97×
      logmath
      		 459.64 7,343 15.98×
      matrix
      		 7,090 113,261 15.97×
      matrix-3d
      		 1,328 13,738 10.35×
      monte-carlo
      		 204.64 3,415 16.69×
      mpfr
      		 1,541 24,579 15.95×
      powmath
      		 266.46 4,257 15.98×
      trig
      		 506.69 8,097 15.98×
      veccmp
      		 23,352 372,968 15.97×
      vecfp
      		 1,327 21,253 16.02×
      vecmath
      		 4,756 76,001 15.98×
      vecshuf
      		 940.89 15,079 16.03×
      vecwide
      		 28,904 461,480 15.97×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 9.6 154.19 16.06×
      bsearch
      		 366.13 5,838 15.94×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 19.2 16.00×
      fibsearch
      		 390.68 6,246 15.99×
      heapsort
      		 13.8 222.99 16.16×
      hsearch
      		 9,137 146,574 16.04×
      insertionsort
      		 7.4 115.6 15.62×
      malloc
      		 2,624,003 36,079,926 13.75×
      mcontend
      		 221.72 35,951 162.15×
      mergesort
      		 35.6 571.18 16.04×
      qsort
      		 24 383.19 15.97×
      skiplist
      		 7,292 116,412 15.96×
      tree
      		 1.2 15.99 13.33×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 410,466 658,475 1.60×
      cachehammer
      		 1,892,879 25,816,193 13.64×
      cacheline
      		 65.51 1,249 19.07×
      l1cache
      		 353.55 5,648 15.97×
      memcpy
      		 766.28 12,226 15.96×
      memrate
      		 5.53 46.17 8.35×
      memthrash
      		 199.83 462.4 2.31×
      ptr-chase
      		 9,254,614 140,660,712 15.20×
      spinmem
      		 3,466 12,696 3.66×
      stream
      		 51.18 5,730 111.97×
      vm
      		 132,825 1,382,460 10.41×

      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-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      c4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0

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