c4xlarge Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon testing on Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 @ 2.89GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 15GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82599 Virtual Function OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03, Kernel: 4.4.5-15.26.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 17653.36 |============================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 16903.70 |============================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 17563.19 |============================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 17754.68 |============================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 17576.06 |============================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 17296.73 |============================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 14503.58 |============================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 14388.06 |============================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 17190 |================================================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 15802.41 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 23767.44 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 19635.52 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 20853.80 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 20806.93 |============================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 10.35 |================================================ Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 2257 |================================================= TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 1121747 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 4456000 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 2851 |================================================= x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 77.16 |================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 151 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 76 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 44 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 110 |================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 1636.94 |============================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 10104 |================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 53.02 |================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 38.91 |================================================ Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 189 |================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 81.58 |================================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 9.83 |================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 15.49 |================================================ FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 22.92 |================================================ POV-Ray 3.7.0 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 298.73 |=============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 266.87 |=============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 21450.68 |============================================= Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 . 21079.84 |============================================