ecs.g5.xlarge by Alibaba Cloud
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(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | alicloud |
Name | ecs.g5.xlarge |
Description | ecs.g5 family (4 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) |
Family | ecs.g5 |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-07-15T10:43:10.308656 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-5 | - | 0.236 USD/h |
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing | - | 0.28 USD/h |
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen | - | 0.28 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 4 |
Hypervisor | KVM |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 4 |
CPU Speed | 2.5 GHz |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
CPU Manufacturer | Intel |
CPU Family | Xeon |
CPU Model | 8163 |
CPU L1D Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 64 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 64 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 1 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 2 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache | 36 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 36 MiB |
CPU Flags | fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512_vnni |
Ecpus | 2.7 |
Scalability | 67.5 |
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 | |
|---|---|
Network Speed Baseline | 1.5 Gbps |
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
CPU and System Topology
Server Description
A balanced x86_64 virtual server with dedicated Intel Xeon cores and 16 GB RAM for lightweight general-purpose workloads.
Alibaba Cloud ecs.g5.xlarge is a general-purpose virtual server featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM on an Intel Xeon 8163 processor running at 2.5 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture and KVM hypervisor, this instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators, and it provides a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps. Benchmark data indicates modest performance, with stress-ng and Geekbench scores falling in the bottom 25 percent, and memory bandwidth for large uncached blocks categorized as poor. The instance achieves 2.88 million operations per second in Redis SET tests and 3.36 GB/sec in static web serving. Given its balanced resource profile and moderate performance characteristics, the ecs.g5.xlarge is best suited for lightweight general-purpose workloads, basic web serving, small database operations, and development or testing environments.
Economics
Performance
Workload Profiles
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 3616 |
Compression | 45225 |
Encryption | 1357 |
Extended Instructions | 2947 |
Floating Point Maths | 5264 |
Integer Maths | 9787 |
Physics | 440 |
Prime Numbers | 25 |
Single Threaded | 1652 |
String Sorting | 6144 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 1375 |
Database Operations | 1112 |
Memory Latency | 75 |
Memory Read Cached | 19414 |
Memory Read Uncached | 6863 |
Memory Write | 7172 |
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
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ecs.g5.large | 2 | 8 GiB | 0 |
| ecs.g5.2xlarge | 8 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| ecs.g5.3xlarge | 12 | 48 GiB | 0 |
| ecs.g5.4xlarge | 16 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| ecs.g5.6xlarge | 24 | 96 GiB | 0 |
| ecs.g5.8xlarge | 32 | 128 GiB | 0 |
| ecs.g5.16xlarge | 64 | 256 GiB | 0 |
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