c4a-standard-8 by Google Cloud Platform

c4a-standard-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0554 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
14,535
(All-cores)
1,819
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1765196
Name
c4a-standard-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM
Family
c4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
13
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-08T00:33:54.078327

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0976 USD/h 0.3592 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1864 USD/h 0.3592 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1864 USD/h 0.3592 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1864 USD/h 0.3592 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.214 USD/h 0.3592 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1431 USD/h 0.3736 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0554 USD/h 0.3772 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.2032 USD/h 0.3772 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.1066 USD/h 0.3915 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1068 USD/h 0.3955 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1681 USD/h 0.3955 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.1783 USD/h 0.3955 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1816 USD/h 0.3955 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1818 USD/h 0.3955 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1856 USD/h 0.4046 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2106 USD/h 0.4095 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1372 USD/h 0.4159 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1488 USD/h 0.4239 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1643 USD/h 0.4239 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.1977 USD/h 0.4239 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1638 USD/h 0.4318 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.113 USD/h 0.4346 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1656 USD/h 0.4364 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.2659 USD/h 0.4431 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0944 USD/h 0.4491 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2277 USD/h 0.4613 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0981 USD/h 0.4669 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.132 USD/h 0.4706 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.1258 USD/h 0.483 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.2037 USD/h 0.5136 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.2165 USD/h 0.5704 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.3449 USD/h 0.5749 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
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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 server featuring dedicated Neoverse-V2 cores and high memory bandwidth for efficient general-purpose and text-processing workloads.

      General PurposeCompute Optimized

      Google Cloud Platform c4a-standard-8 is an arm64 server instance featuring 8 dedicated physical cores powered by a 3.0 GHz ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 processor and 32.0 GB of RAM. Lacking local storage and GPUs, this instance delivers strong memory performance, highlighted by a top-tier PassMark memory score and 198.51 GB/sec large-block read bandwidth. It also excels in single-threaded compression and text processing. However, cryptographic operations represent a performance tradeoff, scoring in the weak tier. The c4a-standard-8 is well-suited for general-purpose workloads, software compilation, static web serving, and database operations that benefit from dedicated physical cores and high memory throughput, while being less optimal for intensive encryption tasks or large-scale language model inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.93Score
      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) 1,499,083 ops/sec 1,922,940 ops/sec 0.79 50.00% 50.00% -11.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,742,089 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 0.81 20.00% 20.00% -4.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,082 2,406 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 232,429 MB/sec 108,657 MB/sec 2.1 10.00% 10.00% +7.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,074 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,949

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 10,868

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8,476
      Compression
      		 55,960
      Encryption
      		 1,666
      Extended Instructions
      		 10,410
      Floating Point Maths
      		 51,533
      Integer Maths
      		 44,636
      Physics
      		 2,824
      Prime Numbers
      		 133
      Single Threaded
      		 2,074
      String Sorting
      		 39,657

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 3,082
      Database Operations
      		 13,133
      Memory Latency
      		 50
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,481
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 18,668
      Memory Write
      		 22,575

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 249.26 232.98 0.93×
      bitops
      		 154,823 1,236,535 7.99×
      branch
      		 242,905 1,940,465 7.99×
      funccall
      		 2,111 16,837 7.98×
      funcret
      		 37,321 299,055 8.01×
      hash
      		 166,632 1,329,212 7.98×
      intmath
      		 35,160 279,351 7.95×
      nop
      		 491,383 3,908,050 7.95×
      prime
      		 529,825 4,233,446 7.99×
      rotate
      		 143,383 1,144,541 7.98×
      str
      		 828,742 6,609,116 7.97×
      wcs
      		 217,496 1,730,297 7.96×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,708 29,588 7.98×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 791.52 6,274 7.93×
      zlib
      		 52.6 373.78 7.11×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 45,257 269,497 5.95×
      clone
      		 497.48 1,592 3.20×
      context
      		 2,646 22,178 8.38×
      cpu-sched
      		 61.97 512.26 8.27×
      eventfd
      		 112,694 1,366,514 12.13×
      fault
      		 21,299 129,373 6.07×
      fork
      		 5,390 34,362 6.37×
      getrandom
      		 65,992 526,990 7.99×
      hrtimers
      		 739,325 997,121 1.35×
      mprotect
      		 932,540 3,310,856 3.55×
      mtx
      		 8,680,608 414,011,251 47.69×
      munmap
      		 4,006 25,322 6.32×
      null
      		 456,270 3,795,705 8.32×
      pipe
      		 955,477 6,140,570 6.43×
      priv-instr
      		 812,830 6,615,181 8.14×
      resched
      		 3,127,180 944,106 0.30×
      switch
      		 179,491 3,931,188 21.90×
      timermix
      		 553,683 4,379,460 7.91×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 20,809 55,384 2.66×
      vdso
      		 43,181,428 344,341,653 7.97×
      vfork
      		 43,413 163,107 3.76×
      yield
      		 10,053,711 10,197,919 1.01×
      zero
      		 2,590,739 21,026,313 8.12×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 2,074 16,548 7.98×
      expmath
      		 392.5 3,129 7.97×
      fma
      		 830,167 6,623,276 7.98×
      fp
      		 163.2 1,301 7.97×
      fractal
      		 8.4 65.6 7.81×
      hyperbolic
      		 378.96 3,024 7.98×
      logmath
      		 458.91 3,650 7.95×
      matrix
      		 7,091 56,508 7.97×
      matrix-3d
      		 1,471 9,078 6.17×
      monte-carlo
      		 204.62 1,709 8.35×
      mpfr
      		 1,541 12,281 7.97×
      powmath
      		 265.7 2,125 8.00×
      trig
      		 509.51 4,065 7.98×
      veccmp
      		 23,341 186,316 7.98×
      vecfp
      		 1,329 10,615 7.98×
      vecmath
      		 4,759 37,976 7.98×
      vecshuf
      		 945.56 7,529 7.96×
      vecwide
      		 26,962 231,348 8.58×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 9.6 77 8.02×
      bsearch
      		 364.72 2,918 8.00×
      bubblesort
      		 1.2 9.6 8.00×
      fibsearch
      		 390.64 3,119 7.98×
      heapsort
      		 14 111.2 7.94×
      hsearch
      		 9,136 73,664 8.06×
      insertionsort
      		 7.4 56.2 7.59×
      malloc
      		 3,277,721 23,910,389 7.29×
      mcontend
      		 270.29 16,981 62.82×
      mergesort
      		 35.8 285.59 7.98×
      qsort
      		 24 191.59 7.98×
      skiplist
      		 7,291 58,166 7.98×
      tree
      		 1.6 10.8 6.75×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 424,365 660,761 1.56×
      cachehammer
      		 1,957,430 14,577,692 7.45×
      cacheline
      		 81.85 625.31 7.64×
      l1cache
      		 354.26 2,823 7.97×
      memcpy
      		 758.53 6,102 8.04×
      memrate
      		 5.73 36.03 6.29×
      memthrash
      		 149.9 250.8 1.67×
      ptr-chase
      		 11,774,177 82,075,815 6.97×
      spinmem
      		 3,681 5,481 1.49×
      stream
      		 55.41 2,528 45.62×
      vm
      		 147,949 709,224 4.79×

      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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