Hetzner (Metal)
Benchmarked July 2025
Hetzner (Metal) charges $59/mo for the plan we tested, running on AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8700GE w/ Radeon 780M Graphics with 8 GB of RAM. It lands in our enterprise tier, strongest at memory performance and weakest at disk I/O.
What You Need to Know
✓ The Good
Tops every host we've benchmarked for memory performance.
✕ The Bad
Only 27% of the category leader on block updates.
Only 18% of the category leader on disk I/O.
One of the pricier plans at $59/mo — make sure you need the headroom.
The Bottom Line
Hetzner (Metal) is a enterprise option that shines at best-in-class memory performance, but watch out for weak block updates.
Hetzner (Metal)'s AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8700GE w/ Radeon 780M Graphics is a mid-pack machine in our lineup, and it shows in the demanding workloads — it tops the field for memory performance. On the flip side, disk i/o lands at just 18% of the category leader, with block updates at 27% — worth weighing if your server leans on that. Run-to-run consistency was acceptable but not rock-solid (~10% variance across 15 runs). Bottom line: a enterprise performer, strongest where it counts for memory performance.
Hardware
The test server posts a hardware score of 207 — enterprise-grade for a Minecraft host (AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8700GE w/ Radeon 780M Graphics, 16 cores). Its Minecraft performance lands roughly 29% below what that hardware should manage, which usually points to virtualisation overhead or a shared/throttled machine.
Test machine
- Processor
- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8700GE w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
- Cores / threads
- 16 / 16
- Clock speed
- 2.42 GHz
- RAM allocated
- 8 GB
- RAM on host
- 16 GB
- Storage
- HDD
- Hardware score
- 207
- Performance tier
- Enterprise
Where the hardware shines
- Memory100%
- CPU math79%
- Virtual threads76%
Where it struggles
- Disk I/O18%
- Block updates27%
% shown is relative to the best host we've tested in each category.
Test Configuration
Test hardware
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8700GE w/ Radeon 780M Graphics (16c / 16t)
- RAM allocated
- 8 GB
- Storage
- HDD
- Server
- 1.21.6-16685-b1ea963 (MC: 1.21.6)
- Java
- 21.0.7
How we test
- Custom Minecraft plugin running 140+ standardized measurements
- A macro test of 5 runs, repeated across three timezones
- Uptime monitored for the full month of the subscription
- Multiple runs aggregated, with variance tracked for consistency