GCP Instance Comparison KVM testing on Ubuntu 17.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Google Compute Engine, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 11GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-25-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Google Compute Engine, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 11GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-25-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: Google Compute Engine, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 11GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-25-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM iPerf 3.1.3 Server Address: iperf.it-north.net - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 10 Seconds - Test: TCP - Parallel: 20 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 23.47 |=============================================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 23.40 |=============================================== GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 23.57 |=============================================== iPerf 3.1.3 Server Address: iperf.it-north.net - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 10 Seconds - Test: UDP - Parallel: 20 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 21 |================================================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 21 |================================================== GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 21 |================================================== iPerf 3.1.3 Server Address: iperf.it-north.net - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 10 Seconds - Test: UDP - 100Mbit Objective - Parallel: 20 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 1358.52 |=============================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 1986.00 |============================================= GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 1041.93 |======================== iPerf 3.1.3 Server Address: iperf.it-north.net - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 10 Seconds - Test: UDP - 1000Mbit Objective - Parallel: 20 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 9161 |================================================ GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 4420 |======================= GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 5031 |========================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 378.28 |=========================================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 395.02 |============================================= GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 400.91 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 92.14 |=============================================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 92.53 |=============================================== GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 92.28 |=============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 84.39 |===================================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 104.40 |============================================== GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 98.07 |=========================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 460.99 |============================================= GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 464.73 |============================================= GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 473.06 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 517.41 |======================================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 571.83 |============================================= GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 589.01 |============================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 736.47 |============================================= GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 741.61 |============================================= GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 752.14 |============================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 889504 |============================================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 895288 |============================================== GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 897331 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 821 |=============== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 1328 |========================= GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 2572 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 4141000 |======================= GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 4479333 |======================== GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 8261667 |============================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 13311 |==================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 16726 |========================= GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 31680 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 1638.56 |=========================================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 1655.14 |============================================ GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 1702.65 |============================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 8.98 |=============================================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 8.93 |=============================================== GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 9.09 |================================================ Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 15.23 |============================================= GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 15.75 |=============================================== GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 15.30 |============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 114.63 |===================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 129.75 |======================= GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 255.25 |============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.2g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 124.57 |====================== GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 130.90 |======================= GCP 4 CPU 3.6GB east1b . 257.83 |==============================================