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 0.0482 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
2026-09-23T19:44:27.219345Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0941 USD/h 0.3592 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.17 USD/h 0.3592 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.17 USD/h 0.3592 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.17 USD/h 0.3592 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.214 USD/h 0.3592 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1441 USD/h 0.3736 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0482 USD/h 0.3772 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.2263 USD/h 0.3772 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.1025 USD/h 0.3915 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0929 USD/h 0.3955 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1651 USD/h 0.3955 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1872 USD/h 0.3955 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.1877 USD/h 0.3955 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1913 USD/h 0.3955 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.2056 USD/h 0.4046 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.2122 USD/h 0.4095 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1372 USD/h 0.4159 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.1511 USD/h 0.4239 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1655 USD/h 0.4239 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.1992 USD/h 0.4239 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1649 USD/h 0.4318 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.113 USD/h 0.4346 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.1744 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
0.2179 USD/h 0.4613 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0981 USD/h 0.4669 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.2008 USD/h 0.4706 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.193 USD/h 0.483 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.2145 USD/h 0.5136 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.2279 USD/h 0.5704 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.2621 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
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 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

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.929Score
      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 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.781 50.00% 50.00% -11.60%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,742,089 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.83 20.00% 20.00% -3.66%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,082 2,418 1.27 10.00% 10.00% +2.42%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 232,429 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 2.15 10.00% 10.00% +7.96%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,074 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.877 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
      		 8476
      Compression
      		 55960
      Encryption
      		 1666
      Extended Instructions
      		 10410
      Floating Point Maths
      		 51533
      Integer Maths
      		 44636
      Physics
      		 2824
      Prime Numbers
      		 133
      Single Threaded
      		 2074
      String Sorting
      		 39657

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 3082
      Database Operations
      		 13133
      Memory Latency
      		 50
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22481
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 18668
      Memory Write
      		 22575

      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

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      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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