i mean as long as you are always mining cobble and there are hoppers below and the items never get lava'd its a good gen
you can have a cobblegen without hoppers but its just easier and more efficient to use hoppers, and typically cobble generators wont produce much server lag at all
The best cobble gen is actually a stone gen. Stone breaks quicker than cobble and will yield both stone and cobble depending on whether you have silk touch or not. Drogo has his own design that would rival any stone gen for speed without going over the new red stone tick limitations recently put in place. However Drogo is a secretive person and the design is unknown to most and will not be found on YouTube.
It mines constantly so really is limited by how fast you can mine it. Just tested it over 10 minutes and it runs at about 340 per minute or 5.7 per second. EDIT: Tested again in single player creative as Drogo suspects clag took a few stacks, also no server lag and it runs at 434 per minute or 7.2 per second. EDIT#2: No response ca1eb2k ?? Yours was similar so Drogo copied it to creative and tested both side by side.