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 0.0873 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
2026-09-13T17:14:47.591378

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.2086 USD/h 0.7184 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.3766 USD/h 0.7184 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.3766 USD/h 0.7184 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.3766 USD/h 0.7184 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.389 USD/h 0.7184 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.2614 USD/h 0.7471 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0873 USD/h 0.7543 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.4511 USD/h 0.7543 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.1961 USD/h 0.7831 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1862 USD/h 0.791 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.3003 USD/h 0.791 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.3242 USD/h 0.791 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.3477 USD/h 0.791 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.3754 USD/h 0.791 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.3916 USD/h 0.8091 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.3674 USD/h 0.8189 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.2745 USD/h 0.8318 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.3021 USD/h 0.8477 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.3168 USD/h 0.8477 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.3614 USD/h 0.8477 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.3308 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
0.5072 USD/h 0.8863 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1887 USD/h 0.8981 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.4588 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
0.3899 USD/h 1.0273 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.4558 USD/h 1.1407 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.5241 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
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 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

      1.53Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.54 50.00% 50.00% +24.10%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 18,990,745 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.63 20.00% 20.00% +10.30%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,185 2,418 1.32 10.00% 10.00% +2.82%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 291,885 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 2.7 10.00% 10.00% +10.40%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,072 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.876 10.00% 10.00% -1.32%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,921

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 16,780

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 16039
      Compression
      		 112831
      Encryption
      		 3335
      Extended Instructions
      		 20824
      Floating Point Maths
      		 102943
      Integer Maths
      		 89289
      Physics
      		 5195
      Prime Numbers
      		 226
      Single Threaded
      		 2072
      String Sorting
      		 79433

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 3185
      Database Operations
      		 25752
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22340
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 18060
      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

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      c4a-highcpu-1 12 GiB0
      c4a-standard-1 14 GiB0
      c4a-highmem-1 18 GiB0
      c4a-highcpu-2 24 GiB0
      c4a-standard-2 28 GiB0
      c4a-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      c4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0

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