ecs.n2.3xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.n2.3xlarge is a ecs.n2 family (16 vCPUs, 64 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1667 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
17,293
(All-cores)
1,106
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.n2.3xlarge
Description
ecs.n2 family (16 vCPUs, 64 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-14T01:51:57.175129

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
0.1667 USD/h 1.191 USD/h
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
- 1.191 USD/h
Guangzhou (CN) / cn-guangzhou
- 1.191 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
- 1.191 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 1.191 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
33 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, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, arat
Ecpus
15.6
Scalability
97.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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, multi-core virtual server with dedicated Intel Xeon processors and 64 GB RAM for general-purpose workloads.

      General Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.n2.3xlarge is a general-purpose instance featuring 16 dedicated x86_64 vCPUs and 64.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8163 processor at 2.5 GHz. Operating on the KVM hypervisor, this instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Benchmark data indicates weak single-core performance, with single-threaded compression and Geekbench scores falling into the bottom percentiles. However, the instance delivers average multi-core performance, as evidenced by its Geekbench multi-core score of 6825.0 and solid multi-threaded decompression capabilities. With a balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio, it is qualitatively cost-effective for workloads that scale across multiple threads rather than relying on high single-core clock speeds. It is best suited for general-purpose applications, including static web serving, database operations, and software compilation.

      Economics

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      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.745Score
      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) 1,346,630 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.702 50.00% 50.00% -16.20%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,435,008 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.808 20.00% 20.00% -4.17%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,738 2,418 0.719 10.00% 10.00% -3.25%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 99,837 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.923 10.00% 10.00% -0.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,682 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.711 10.00% 10.00% -3.35%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 906

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,825

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 17461
      Compression
      		 260293
      Encryption
      		 6388
      Extended Instructions
      		 21434
      Floating Point Maths
      		 36283
      Integer Maths
      		 49467
      Physics
      		 1723
      Prime Numbers
      		 103
      Single Threaded
      		 1682
      String Sorting
      		 33190

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1738
      Database Operations
      		 4266
      Memory Latency
      		 81
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19518
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6207
      Memory Write
      		 6705

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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