c4a-standard-16-lssd by Google Cloud Platform

c4a-standard-16-lssd is a 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 4 local SSD server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 1.61 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1415 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
1.61 TB Storage
Spare SCore
29,085
(All-cores)
1,819
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1765222
Name
c4a-standard-16-lssd
Description
16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 4 local SSD
Family
c4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
28.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T17:25:14.457466

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.2386 USD/h 0.965 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.4772 USD/h 0.965 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.4772 USD/h 0.965 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.4772 USD/h 0.965 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.5748 USD/h 0.965 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.4048 USD/h 1.0035 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1415 USD/h 1.0132 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.52 USD/h 1.0132 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.2726 USD/h 1.0518 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.2735 USD/h 1.0625 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.4437 USD/h 1.0625 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.4755 USD/h 1.0625 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.5044 USD/h 1.0625 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.5139 USD/h 1.0625 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.5248 USD/h 1.0869 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.5386 USD/h 1.1 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.3686 USD/h 1.1173 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.421 USD/h 1.1387 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.4646 USD/h 1.1387 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.5592 USD/h 1.1387 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.4633 USD/h 1.16 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.3037 USD/h 1.1676 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.4686 USD/h 1.1724 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.7142 USD/h 1.1905 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.2534 USD/h 1.2063 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.5563 USD/h 1.2392 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.2636 USD/h 1.2543 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.5395 USD/h 1.2641 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.5186 USD/h 1.2976 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.5763 USD/h 1.3799 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.6124 USD/h 1.5323 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.8458 USD/h 1.5443 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
    1608 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An ARM64 server combining dedicated physical cores with high-speed bundled NVMe storage and top-tier memory subsystem performance.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform c4a-standard-16-lssd is an ARM64 server featuring 16 dedicated physical cores on the 3.0 GHz ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 architecture, paired with 64.0 GB of RAM and 1608 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. It operates without hyperthreading, allocating one thread per core, and lacks GPU resources. Benchmarks indicate top-tier memory performance, with Passmark memory scores in the top 10% and strong large-block memory bandwidth in the top 25%. Multi-core Geekbench scaling, text processing, and database operations also demonstrate strong performance. While it lacks x86 vector extensions like AVX-512, its bundled high-speed local storage and strong memory subsystem make it highly efficient for database management, text processing, multi-threaded decompression, and general-purpose workloads requiring high-speed local disk access.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.6Score
    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) 2,992,369 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.6 50.00% 50.00% +26.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 19,879,584 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.7 20.00% 20.00% +11.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,248 2,416 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 371,374 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 3.4 10.00% 10.00% +13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,076 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,961

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 17,040

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 16,148
    Compression
    		 113,145
    Encryption
    		 3,355
    Extended Instructions
    		 20,787
    Floating Point Maths
    		 103,198
    Integer Maths
    		 89,344
    Physics
    		 5,506
    Prime Numbers
    		 273
    Single Threaded
    		 2,076
    String Sorting
    		 79,797

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 3,248
    Database Operations
    		 26,262
    Memory Latency
    		 50
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,587
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 18,775
    Memory Write
    		 22,761

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 242.22 247.09 1.02×
    bitops
    		 154,861 2,475,980 15.99×
    branch
    		 242,924 3,884,128 15.99×
    funccall
    		 2,111 33,723 15.97×
    funcret
    		 37,063 582,228 15.71×
    hash
    		 166,549 2,661,180 15.98×
    intmath
    		 34,880 558,691 16.02×
    nop
    		 490,460 7,819,910 15.94×
    prime
    		 530,582 8,472,510 15.97×
    rotate
    		 143,609 2,289,713 15.94×
    str
    		 829,468 13,236,605 15.96×
    wcs
    		 216,844 3,487,226 16.08×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,704 59,259 16.00×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 796.48 12,494 15.69×
    zlib
    		 38.58 734.11 19.03×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 44,661 430,744 9.64×
    clone
    		 507.2 3,146 6.20×
    context
    		 2,638 43,836 16.62×
    cpu-sched
    		 60.84 1,010 16.60×
    eventfd
    		 105,896 745,095 7.04×
    fault
    		 23,308 237,051 10.17×
    fork
    		 5,797 55,448 9.57×
    getrandom
    		 65,785 1,051,036 15.98×
    hrtimers
    		 182,350 1,634,474 8.96×
    mprotect
    		 1,104,536 6,332,766 5.73×
    mtx
    		 10,168,611 805,416,034 79.21×
    munmap
    		 4,159 48,110 11.57×
    null
    		 456,770 7,554,303 16.54×
    pipe
    		 1,175,620 11,883,303 10.11×
    priv-instr
    		 817,875 9,184,825 11.23×
    resched
    		 4,465,065 1,941,367 0.43×
    switch
    		 191,083 8,048,456 42.12×
    timermix
    		 556,877 8,892,144 15.97×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 15,691 109,345 6.97×
    vdso
    		 43,628,940 697,124,992 15.98×
    vfork
    		 45,817 260,726 5.69×
    yield
    		 20,480,987 20,712,369 1.01×
    zero
    		 2,591,217 42,058,148 16.23×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 2,074 33,142 15.98×
    expmath
    		 392.46 6,266 15.96×
    fma
    		 830,516 13,267,522 15.98×
    fp
    		 163.2 2,614 16.02×
    fractal
    		 8.4 131.21 15.62×
    hyperbolic
    		 379.02 6,056 15.98×
    logmath
    		 459.72 7,344 15.98×
    matrix
    		 7,091 113,240 15.97×
    matrix-3d
    		 1,525 15,761 10.34×
    monte-carlo
    		 204.64 3,356 16.40×
    mpfr
    		 1,542 24,599 15.96×
    powmath
    		 266.51 4,258 15.98×
    trig
    		 509.74 8,140 15.97×
    veccmp
    		 23,345 373,000 15.98×
    vecfp
    		 1,332 21,213 15.93×
    vecmath
    		 4,758 76,020 15.98×
    vecshuf
    		 936.83 15,033 16.05×
    vecwide
    		 26,972 463,328 17.18×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 9.8 154.6 15.78×
    bsearch
    		 365.49 5,839 15.98×
    bubblesort
    		 1.2 19.2 16.00×
    fibsearch
    		 390.66 6,244 15.98×
    heapsort
    		 14 222.39 15.88×
    hsearch
    		 9,094 146,495 16.11×
    insertionsort
    		 7.2 114.2 15.86×
    malloc
    		 3,838,677 39,057,598 10.17×
    mcontend
    		 256.25 34,137 133.22×
    mergesort
    		 35.8 571.98 15.98×
    qsort
    		 24 383.79 15.99×
    skiplist
    		 7,296 116,403 15.95×
    tree
    		 1.6 21.78 13.61×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 470,032 729,713 1.55×
    cachehammer
    		 2,049,843 28,075,313 13.70×
    cacheline
    		 71.04 1,186 16.69×
    l1cache
    		 353.84 5,645 15.95×
    memcpy
    		 765.51 12,231 15.98×
    memrate
    		 5.72 52.84 9.24×
    memthrash
    		 249.34 471.57 1.89×
    ptr-chase
    		 23,086,099 170,259,378 7.37×
    spinmem
    		 3,165 14,307 4.52×
    stream
    		 58.51 8,211 140.33×
    vm
    		 142,290 1,454,826 10.22×

    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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