Custom Kernel 4.14.20 symphony-aws+spectre KVM testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M @ 3.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5.large, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 62GB, Graphics: Device 1d0f:1111, Network: Device 1d0f:ec20 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.14.20symphony-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Java SciMark 2.0 FFT Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M . 1276.66 |========================================== Java SciMark 2.0 SOR Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M . 1236.71 |========================================== Java SciMark 2.0 Composite Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M . 2113.95 |========================================== Java SciMark 2.0 Monte Carlo Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M . 839.02 |=========================================== Bork File Encrypter 1.4 File Encryption Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M . 16.15 |============================================ Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M . 9.09 |=============================================