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t2a-standard-4 by Google Cloud Platform

t2a-standard-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0539 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7218
(All-cores)
1813
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1220003
Name
t2a-standard-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
t2a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
14
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-26T04:19:07.013720

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0656 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0966 USD/h 0.1618 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0539 USD/h 0.1899 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Ampere
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N1
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, lrcpc, dcpop, asimddp, ssbs
Ecpus
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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

      A balanced ARM64 virtual machine featuring dedicated Ampere Altra cores for general-purpose workloads and cost-efficient application development.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform t2a-standard-4 is an ARM64-based general-purpose instance configured with 4 dedicated physical cores of an Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 processor running at 3.0 GHz. It includes 16 GB of system memory, yielding 4 GB of RAM per core, with no local storage or GPU hardware. Performance benchmarks indicate average capabilities in stress-ng CPU tests and database operations, but show weaknesses in single-threaded compression, software compilation, and static web serving. Cryptographic and LLM inference tasks perform poorly due to the lack of specialized instruction sets like AVX. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for standard ARM64 development, basic database hosting, and general-purpose utility workloads that do not require high-performance local storage or intensive mathematical acceleration.

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.337Score
      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) 501,424 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.264 50.00% 50.00% -48.60%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,244,612 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.281 20.00% 20.00% -22.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,643 2,411 0.682 10.00% 10.00% -3.75%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 52,113 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.485 10.00% 10.00% -6.98%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,320 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.559 10.00% 10.00% -5.65%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,062

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,517

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3191
      Compression
      		 21860
      Encryption
      		 649
      Extended Instructions
      		 2957
      Floating Point Maths
      		 14237
      Integer Maths
      		 18776
      Physics
      		 652
      Prime Numbers
      		 36
      Single Threaded
      		 1320
      String Sorting
      		 13498

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1643
      Database Operations
      		 2851
      Memory Latency
      		 71
      Memory Read Cached
      		 11289
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8671
      Memory Write
      		 14816

      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

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      t2a-standard-1 14 GiB0
      t2a-standard-2 28 GiB0
      t2a-standard-8 832 GiB0
      t2a-standard-16 1664 GiB0
      t2a-standard-32 32128 GiB0
      t2a-standard-48 48192 GiB0

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