48xCPU-256GB by UpCloud

48xCPU-256GB is a General Purpose (48 vCPUs, 256 GiB RAM) server offered by UpCloud with 48 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 2.05 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 2.4404 USD per hour.
48 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
2.05 TB Storage
Spare SCore
25,021
(All-cores)
748
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
upcloud
Name
48xCPU-256GB
Description
General Purpose (48 vCPUs, 256 GiB RAM)
Family
General Purpose
Hw Virt
Status
retired
Observed At
2026-10-28T20:41:05.563461

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Sydney #1 (AU) / au-syd1
- 2.4404 USD/h
Frankfurt #1 (DE) / de-fra1
- 2.4404 USD/h
Copenhagen #1 (DK) / dk-cph1
- 2.4404 USD/h
Madrid #1 (ES) / es-mad1
- 2.4404 USD/h
Amsterdam #1 (NL) / nl-ams1
- 2.4404 USD/h
Stavanger #1 (NO) / no-svg1
- 2.4404 USD/h
Warsaw #1 (PL) / pl-waw1
- 2.4404 USD/h
Stockholm #1 (SE) / se-sto1
- 2.4404 USD/h
Singapore #1 (SG) / sg-sin1
- 2.4404 USD/h
London #1 (GB) / uk-lon1
- 2.4404 USD/h
Chicago #1 (US) / us-chi1
- 2.4404 USD/h
New York #1 (US) / us-nyc1
- 2.4404 USD/h
San Jose #1 (US) / us-sjo1
- 2.4404 USD/h
Helsinki #1 (FI) / fi-hel1
- 2.8247 USD/h
Helsinki #2 (FI) / fi-hel2
- 2.8247 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
48
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Shared
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7542
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
24 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, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, perfctr_core, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, vmmcall, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, clzero, xsaveerptr, wbnoinvd, arat, umip, rdpid, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
33.5
Scalability
69.79

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    2048 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      24576 GB/month
      IPv4
      1

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A high-capacity virtual server featuring forty-eight cores and bundled SSD storage, optimized for highly parallelized, multi-threaded workloads.

      General PurposeStorage & Database

      UpCloud 48xCPU-256GB is a general-purpose virtual server running on the KVM hypervisor. It features 48 shared vCPUs powered by an AMD EPYC 7542 processor at 2.0 GHz, paired with 256.0 GB of RAM and a bundled 2048 GB local SSD. While single-core benchmarks like stress-ng single-core fall in the bottom 10%, the server demonstrates strong multi-threaded capabilities, with bzip3 multi-threaded decompression and Passmark CPU encryption scoring in the top 25%. Memory bandwidth, database operations, and static web serving throughput consistently perform in the average tier. The primary tradeoff is its shared CPU allocation and lower single-core clock speed, which makes it less suitable for single-threaded tasks. However, its high core count and memory density make it qualitatively cost-efficient for highly parallelized workloads. It is best suited for multi-threaded applications, software compilation, database operations, and static web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.5Score
      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) 3,642,305 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.9 50.00% 50.00% +38.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 25,063,452 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 2.1 20.00% 20.00% +16.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,999 2,416 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 105,184 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,055 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,206

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 10,926

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 49,503
      Compression
      		 776,720
      Encryption
      		 50,217
      Extended Instructions
      		 47,780
      Floating Point Maths
      		 122,479
      Integer Maths
      		 179,192
      Physics
      		 5,034
      Prime Numbers
      		 311
      Single Threaded
      		 2,055
      String Sorting
      		 105,364

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,999
      Database Operations
      		 16,084
      Memory Latency
      		 88
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,906
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,308
      Memory Write
      		 8,784

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 497.37 366.7 0.74×
      bitops
      		 239,314 8,378,416 35.01×
      branch
      		 176,521 7,389,454 41.86×
      funccall
      		 906.56 33,571 37.03×
      funcret
      		 27,721 1,087,828 39.24×
      hash
      		 221,362 9,023,620 40.76×
      intmath
      		 82,356 3,518,417 42.72×
      nop
      		 434,205 18,700,381 43.07×
      prime
      		 632,600 23,570,285 37.26×
      rotate
      		 142,035 5,885,975 41.44×
      str
      		 1,535,883 55,673,149 36.25×
      wcs
      		 1,076,042 36,923,992 34.31×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 5,303 175,764 33.14×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 1,305 46,878 35.94×
      zlib
      		 78.66 3,192 40.58×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 72,525 235,585 3.25×
      clone
      		 615.9 14,316 23.24×
      context
      		 8,918 397,316 44.55×
      cpu-sched
      		 61.23 3,099 50.61×
      eventfd
      		 73,943 1,800,372 24.35×
      fault
      		 38,389 167,496 4.36×
      fork
      		 5,333 79,267 14.86×
      getrandom
      		 99,954 3,573,622 35.75×
      hrtimers
      		 257,438 5,309,218 20.62×
      mprotect
      		 674,875 18,406,803 27.27×
      mtx
      		 56,330,090 3,830,290,541 68.00×
      munmap
      		 3,843 65,202 16.97×
      null
      		 1,517,238 62,323,808 41.08×
      pipe
      		 652,651 25,275,529 38.73×
      priv-instr
      		 1,364,118 20,718,199 15.19×
      resched
      		 13,540,935 17,009,333 1.26×
      switch
      		 97,028 15,288,416 157.57×
      timermix
      		 338,775 12,099,831 35.72×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 23,479 264,665 11.27×
      tsc
      		 924,799 44,057,932 47.64×
      usersyscall
      		 1,127,250 22,983,648 20.39×
      vdso
      		 103,536,605 4,418,461,192 42.68×
      vfork
      		 34,483 148,489 4.31×
      x86syscall
      		 20,034,230 804,749,063 40.17×
      yield
      		 65,480,378 99,653,976 1.52×
      zero
      		 8,130,140 324,807,569 39.95×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 17,655 654,221 37.06×
      expmath
      		 4,012 158,724 39.57×
      fma
      		 1,603,578 59,413,763 37.05×
      fp
      		 225.6 8,706 38.59×
      fractal
      		 9.2 378.47 41.14×
      hyperbolic
      		 5,671 230,939 40.73×
      logmath
      		 5,879 243,554 41.43×
      matrix
      		 9,241 240,365 26.01×
      matrix-3d
      		 1,386 9,812 7.08×
      monte-carlo
      		 464.19 19,429 41.86×
      mpfr
      		 2,398 96,044 40.05×
      powmath
      		 1,912 80,710 42.20×
      trig
      		 2,491 99,871 40.10×
      veccmp
      		 30,264 1,138,124 37.61×
      vecfp
      		 2,573 104,073 40.44×
      vecmath
      		 4,791 205,009 42.79×
      vecshuf
      		 1,027 39,392 38.37×
      vecwide
      		 41,775 1,550,728 37.12×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 13.2 457.39 34.65×
      bsearch
      		 378.5 14,772 39.03×
      bubblesort
      		 1.4 53.4 38.14×
      fibsearch
      		 441.11 17,217 39.03×
      heapsort
      		 15.2 571.79 37.62×
      hsearch
      		 13,835 439,504 31.77×
      insertionsort
      		 16 437.2 27.32×
      malloc
      		 4,044,368 81,315,752 20.11×
      mcontend
      		 120.44 8,291 68.84×
      mergesort
      		 41.2 1,610 39.08×
      qsort
      		 27.4 1,100 40.14×
      skiplist
      		 8,504 352,381 41.44×
      tree
      		 2.4 57.51 23.96×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 1,161,715 1,891,694 1.63×
      cachehammer
      		 266,523 10,299,790 38.65×
      cacheline
      		 41.39 4,129 99.75×
      l1cache
      		 703.06 24,156 34.36×
      memcpy
      		 793.74 29,960 37.74×
      memrate
      		 1.1 18.21 16.55×
      memthrash
      		 230.02 1,687 7.34×
      ptr-chase
      		 11,043,755 348,501,954 31.56×
      spinmem
      		 432.78 4,555 10.53×
      stream
      		 395.31 95,363 241.24×
      vm
      		 244,437 298,048 1.22×

      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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