cx53 by Hetzner Cloud

cx53 is a CX 53 server offered by Hetzner Cloud with 16 vCPUs, 31 GiB of memory and 320 GB of storage.
16 vCPU
31 GiB Memory
320 GB Storage
Spare SCore
42,845
(All-cores)
2,668
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
hcloud
Server ID
117
Name
cx53
Description
CX 53
Family
cx
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
14
Status
inactive
Observed At
2026-09-10T17:11:24.047908

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
QEMU
CPU Allocation
Shared
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
16 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, extd_apicid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, perfctr_core, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, clzero, xsaveerptr, wbnoinvd, arat, umip, rdpid
Ecpus
16.1
Scalability
100.63

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
31 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
31 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    320 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      20480 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A resource-dense virtual server featuring sixteen shared cores and local NVMe storage for balanced multi-threaded workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Hetzner Cloud cx53 is an x86_64 virtual server built on the QEMU hypervisor, featuring 16 shared AMD EPYC vCPUs running at 2.0 GHz and 31.0 GB of system memory. It includes a bundled 320 GB NVMe SSD for local storage but lacks dedicated GPU hardware and complimentary public IPv4 addresses. Benchmark data shows strong single-core performance in stress-ng and small-model LLM text generation, though Geekbench single-core and text processing metrics are poor. Most other workloads, such as multi-core processing, memory bandwidth, and database operations, perform in the average range. With a 1:2 RAM-to-vCPU ratio and shared CPU allocation, the cx53 represents a cost-efficient option for multi-threaded tasks that do not require dedicated CPU resources. It is well-suited for static web serving, software compilation, and moderate database workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.47Score
      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) 2,856,544 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.49 50.00% 50.00% +22.10%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 17,712,179 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.52 20.00% 20.00% +8.73%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,482 2,418 1.03 10.00% 10.00% +0.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 286,102 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 2.65 10.00% 10.00% +10.20%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,353 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.995 10.00% 10.00% -0.05%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 706

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,993

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 30150
      Compression
      		 348512
      Encryption
      		 17771
      Extended Instructions
      		 30828
      Floating Point Maths
      		 66562
      Integer Maths
      		 82770
      Physics
      		 4235
      Prime Numbers
      		 237
      Single Threaded
      		 2353
      String Sorting
      		 48100

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2482
      Database Operations
      		 13117
      Memory Latency
      		 71
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23302
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 15119
      Memory Write
      		 16105

      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

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