ecs.sgn7i-vws-m4s.2xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.sgn7i-vws-m4s.2xlarge is a ecs.sgn7i-vws family (8 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage, 0.1667xA10 4096 GiB VRAM) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1058 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
0.1667 GPU
Spare SCore
13,123
(All-cores)
1,861
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.sgn7i-vws-m4s.2xlarge
Description
ecs.sgn7i-vws family (8 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage, 0.1667xA10 4096 GiB VRAM)
Family
ecs.sgn7i-vws
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T04:54:00.952165

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 0.455 USD/h
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
- 0.456 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
- 0.456 USD/h
Chengdu (CN) / cn-chengdu
- 0.461 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
- 0.5909 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
- 0.7012 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.1058 USD/h 0.7051 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.9 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8369B
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
5 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, pdcm, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, cpuid_fault, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
7
Scalability
87.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0.1667
Accelerator Memory Min
4 GiB
Accelerator Memory Total
4 GiB
Accelerator Type
GPU
Accelerator Model
A10
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      2.6 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A budget-friendly virtual server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing and fractional NVIDIA A10 GPU acceleration for lightweight graphical workloads.

      GPU AcceleratedCompute Optimized

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.sgn7i-vws-m4s.2xlarge is a KVM-based virtual server designed for lightweight GPU-accelerated workloads. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8369B processor, it features 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores running at 2.9 GHz, paired with 16.0 GB of system memory. The instance includes a fractional NVIDIA A10 GPU with 4 GB of VRAM, but lacks local storage and relies on a 3 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Performance benchmarks show average CPU capabilities, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 7000.0 and a stress-ng multi-core score of 13123.11. While memory bandwidth is average for small cached blocks, uncached large block writes are weaker. This server is qualitatively cost-efficient for entry-level GPU tasks, virtual workstations, and small-scale LLM inference, though it is constrained by its 2.0 GB RAM-per-core ratio and lack of local storage.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.77Score
      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) 1,616,488 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.84 50.00% 50.00% -8.30%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 7,679,020 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.64 20.00% 20.00% -8.50%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,621 2,416 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 73,561 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,382 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      GPU Bandwidth and Latency

      Node (all GPUs)
      Node baseline directional bandwidth
      		22.0 GB/s
      Node GPU-to-host bandwidth
      		26.4 GB/s
      Node host-to-GPU bandwidth
      		24.1 GB/s
      Single GPU slot
      Per-GPU GPU-to-host bandwidth
      		26.4 GB/s
      Per-GPU host-to-GPU bandwidth
      		24.1 GB/s
      Per-GPU host-device latency
      		4,105 ns
      Benchmark Environment
      Driver Version
      		 470.256.03
      CUDA Runtime Version
      		 12.6
      nvbandwidth Version
      		 v0.8
      GPU Count
      		 1
      P2P Supported
      No
      Efficiency
      SM/CE copy efficiency
      		0.15

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,489

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 7,000

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 15,298
      Compression
      		 166,773
      Encryption
      		 8,762
      Extended Instructions
      		 12,604
      Floating Point Maths
      		 30,678
      Integer Maths
      		 39,945
      Physics
      		 1,492
      Prime Numbers
      		 96
      Single Threaded
      		 2,382
      String Sorting
      		 21,590

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,621
      Database Operations
      		 3,816
      Memory Latency
      		 63
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,805
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,437
      Memory Write
      		 9,939

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 270.1 249.62 0.92×
      bitops
      		 123,002 879,037 7.15×
      branch
      		 134,587 949,654 7.06×
      funccall
      		 620.96 3,731 6.01×
      funcret
      		 10,902 81,885 7.51×
      hash
      		 150,257 1,088,211 7.24×
      intmath
      		 60,757 456,666 7.52×
      nop
      		 184,577 1,361,161 7.37×
      prime
      		 320,248 2,683,848 8.38×
      rotate
      		 97,554 730,283 7.49×
      str
      		 860,269 5,877,765 6.83×
      wcs
      		 583,009 4,049,470 6.95×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,810 18,901 6.73×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 683.1 5,437 7.96×
      zlib
      		 60.2 339.63 5.64×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 49,146 242,099 4.93×
      clone
      		 538.97 2,711 5.03×
      context
      		 4,740 35,877 7.57×
      cpu-sched
      		 62.14 518.54 8.34×
      eventfd
      		 32,570 1,030,578 31.64×
      fault
      		 16,655 104,805 6.29×
      fork
      		 4,272 36,340 8.51×
      getrandom
      		 50,921 374,003 7.34×
      hrtimers
      		 245,498 1,270,431 5.17×
      mprotect
      		 1,081,527 2,744,774 2.54×
      mtx
      		 12,353,039 381,588,014 30.89×
      munmap
      		 3,280 29,344 8.95×
      null
      		 751,165 5,366,892 7.14×
      pipe
      		 979,024 6,185,623 6.32×
      priv-instr
      		 817,280 5,660,653 6.93×
      resched
      		 4,651,147 1,538,553 0.33×
      switch
      		 53,926 1,820,797 33.76×
      timermix
      		 145,184 1,498,647 10.32×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 13,516 25,982 1.92×
      tsc
      		 755,533 5,781,656 7.65×
      usersyscall
      		 630,837 4,087,137 6.48×
      vdso
      		 110,750,024 822,760,569 7.43×
      vfork
      		 23,972 133,024 5.55×
      x86syscall
      		 8,801,162 68,173,418 7.75×
      yield
      		 9,712,259 9,045,810 0.93×
      zero
      		 4,348,126 32,273,316 7.42×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,490 97,056 6.70×
      expmath
      		 2,885 21,829 7.57×
      fma
      		 656,917 5,049,156 7.69×
      fp
      		 196.8 1,383 7.03×
      fractal
      		 5 38.2 7.64×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,982 22,193 7.44×
      logmath
      		 4,718 35,199 7.46×
      matrix
      		 3,638 26,980 7.42×
      matrix-3d
      		 522.6 2,485 4.76×
      monte-carlo
      		 258.49 1,787 6.91×
      mpfr
      		 1,369 9,824 7.17×
      powmath
      		 1,688 12,439 7.37×
      trig
      		 1,926 14,310 7.43×
      veccmp
      		 20,643 134,444 6.51×
      vecfp
      		 1,501 11,146 7.43×
      vecmath
      		 3,234 24,925 7.71×
      vecshuf
      		 661.15 4,712 7.13×
      vecwide
      		 31,479 217,755 6.92×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.4 56.4 7.62×
      bsearch
      		 240.12 1,875 7.81×
      bubblesort
      		 1 6.6 6.60×
      fibsearch
      		 276.1 1,947 7.05×
      heapsort
      		 9 68.2 7.58×
      hsearch
      		 7,260 46,206 6.36×
      insertionsort
      		 10.2 72.4 7.10×
      malloc
      		 1,931,632 15,901,394 8.23×
      mcontend
      		 129.7 1,664 12.83×
      mergesort
      		 26.8 190.6 7.11×
      qsort
      		 19.2 130.2 6.78×
      skiplist
      		 5,263 38,604 7.33×
      tree
      		 1 6.4 6.40×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 269,806 412,820 1.53×
      cachehammer
      		 341,435 2,656,199 7.78×
      cacheline
      		 61.11 450.27 7.37×
      l1cache
      		 899.64 6,556 7.29×
      memcpy
      		 405.76 2,436 6.00×
      memrate
      		 1.58 6.28 3.97×
      memthrash
      		 172.73 385.83 2.23×
      ptr-chase
      		 10,322,142 73,214,930 7.09×
      spinmem
      		 180.99 315.31 1.74×
      stream
      		 37.43 1,267 33.86×
      vm
      		 105,456 292,378 2.77×

      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

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