gcp4vcpu16gbdbench Intel Xeon testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. PersistentDisk: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Google, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB RAM, Disk: 115GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-64-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4 Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 173.99 |====================================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 354.78 |====================================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 12 MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 385.39 |====================================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 48 MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 410.57 |====================================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 128 MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 403.03 |====================================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 256 MB/s > Higher Is Better PersistentDisk . 354.55 |======================================================