Amazon Linux AMI EC2 vs. Intel Hardware Benchmarks

Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com comparing various Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud instances against a couple Intel Ivy Bridge and Haswell platforms. All benchmarks done by Phoronix-Test-Suite.com and OpenBenchmarking.org. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Amazon Linux AMI EC2 vs. Intel Hardware Benchmarks, "GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Resizing", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",14,14,14 "m1.medium",29,29,29 "m1.large",45,45,45 "m1.xlarge",57,57,57 "m3.xlarge",91,91,91 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",60,60,59 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",139,139,139 "FFmpeg 2.0 - H.264 HD To NTSC DV", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",123.99825811386,121.68004798889,121.95660114288 "m1.medium",57.491745948792,57.32735991478,57.565124988556 "m1.large",34.407737016678,34.290059089661,34.358446121216 "m1.xlarge",28.428234815598,28.428292036057,28.735157012939 "m3.xlarge",19.70986700058,19.702386856079,19.717391967773 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",31.78782916069,30.345897912979,30.511656045914 "OpenSSL 1.0.1c - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",21.1,21.2,21.1 "m1.medium",55.5,56,55.8 "m1.large",44.3,44.5,44.5 "m1.xlarge",43.3,43.3,43.1 "m3.xlarge",93.4,93.4,93.4 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",60.2,60.2,60.1 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",121.9,121.9,121.7 "FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 - WAV To FLAC", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",29.865015983582,29.51442694664,29.587475061417,29.600320100784,29.653672218323 "m1.medium",12.497496128082,12.456187009811,12.443521022797,12.485441923141,12.44975399971 "m1.large",13.942076921463,13.944690942764,13.960685968399,13.943521976471,13.932166099548 "m1.xlarge",14.589906215668,14.592063903809,14.604299068451,14.565551996231,14.642467021942 "m3.xlarge",7.3722848892212,7.3557960987091,7.3970458507538,7.3618731498718,7.3633460998535 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",10.832201957703,10.743000984192,10.747594118118,10.752187013626,10.741682052612 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",5.5834560394287,5.5913128852844,5.5978100299835,5.6000468730927,5.613343000412 "Dolfyn 0.527 - Computational Fluid Dynamics", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",128.83236002922,129.27452015877,128.14680790901 "m1.medium",54.546087026596,54.254640817642,55.487442970276 "m1.large",55.679337024689,55.551862001419,55.531079053879 "m1.xlarge",67.39200592041,68.741816997528,67.098623037338 "m3.xlarge",32.335648059845,32.226876020432,32.286435842514 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",51.841910123825,51.469968080521,51.542098999023 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",25.626162052155,25.538197994232,25.596082925797 "John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 - Test: Traditional DES", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",921600000,847872000,877162000,902710000,929792000,895498000 "m1.medium",2166000,2108000,2166000 "m1.large",3874000,3899000,3809000 "m1.xlarge",7913000,8519000,7241000,8552000,7913000,8483000 "m3.xlarge",8224000,8257000,8241000 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",2441000,2457000,2433000 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",8388000,8388000,8388000 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",320.99666,318.973758,321.347459 "m1.medium",757.876087,758.312422,757.954695 "m1.large",745.315866,742.765673,744.597855 "m1.xlarge",591.535264,595.042021,593.260948 "m3.xlarge",1269.520453,1266.867565,1268.426537 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",784.70089,785.407597,784.785739 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",1523.450118,1526.201996,1525.594255 "Crafty 23.4 - Elapsed Time", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",336.88,336.71,336.94 "m1.medium",168.28,168.23,168.71 "m1.large",152.24,151.97,152.16 "m1.xlarge",169.63,169.88,169.74 "m3.xlarge",97.57,97.68,97.56 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",156.81,156.85,156.71 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",81.97,82.06,82.05 "POV-Ray 3.6.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small", "m1.medium", "m1.large", "m1.xlarge", "m3.xlarge", "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge", "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell", "John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 - Test: MD5", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",8904,8484,8293,8436 "m1.medium",16716,16572,16008 "m1.large",17520,17544,17604 "m1.xlarge",18168,18312,18192 "m3.xlarge",27876,27852,26162,26256,26316 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",18648,18684,18684 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",34116,34152,34104 "FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",1238.0776890159,1250.9317744766,1244.8421179294 "m1.medium",2505.3606906036,2513.5415049201,2509.4017609758 "m1.large",2614.533125203,2577.1537074745,2605.4210031983 "m1.xlarge",2503.6937834302,2555.2289636544,2511.3541781137 "m3.xlarge",4210.1636844072,4187.3181989081,4213.1274018283 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",2719.6482622721,2715.9802213318,2717.1725739714 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",4948.2994723579,4967.9712803606,4970.8435112225 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",803.62,801.519,801.396 "m1.medium",429.843,429.769,429.643 "m1.large",190.466,190.429,190.835 "m1.xlarge",107.506,107.931,107.628 "m3.xlarge",124.993,124.977,126.622 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",114.49,114.415,114.486 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",28.299,28.296,28.367 "Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",2670,2667,2670 "m1.medium",1283,1293,1281 "m1.large",633,636,635 "m1.xlarge",329,335,330 "m3.xlarge",264,266,264 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",361,360,360 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",102,102,102 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",201.53888893127,203.71088409424,216.91474413872,202.76536488533 "m1.medium",80.538581132889,80.663371086121,80.128087043762 "m1.large",44.647322177887,44.359079837799,44.49126291275 "m1.xlarge",19.999006986618,19.444056034088,19.16312289238 "m3.xlarge",19.861160993576,18.677435874939,18.666131973267,18.674077987671 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",32.388216972351,31.045066833496,31.111623048782 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",8.4736709594727,7.8268330097198,7.8599090576172,7.8204398155212,7.7720210552216,7.7495620250702 "John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 - Test: Blowfish", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",243,244,264,261,257,243 "m1.medium",432,432,432 "m1.large",1080,1069,1080 "m1.xlarge",1952,1996,2184,1924,2112,1766 "m3.xlarge",2088,2067,2067 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",1449,1464,1449 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",5424,5370,5424 "Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",249.37573695183,247.62818288803,247.87786984444 "m1.medium",117.23816299438,116.81346797943,116.6679110527 "m1.large",57.56600689888,57.581354856491,57.531950950623 "m1.xlarge",37.685668945312,37.713948011398,37.71897816658 "m3.xlarge",28.262398004532,28.25880408287,28.274927854538 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",39.856900930405,39.618716001511,39.572823047638 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",11.700802087784,11.54693198204,11.527680158615 "N-Queens 1.0 - Elapsed Time", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",1000.326,1000.216,1001.019 "m1.medium",457.236,458.11,457.303 "m1.large",239.306,238.35,238.582 "m1.xlarge",114.376,114.96,114.609 "m3.xlarge",98.255,98.899,98.242 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",164.859,164.95,164.889 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",47.257,47.256,47.255 "x264 2013-06-08 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",7.37,7.76,7.62,7.6,7.68 "m1.medium",16.31,16.3,16.37,16.35,16.31 "m1.large",30.19,29.93,30.9,30.6,30.39 "m1.xlarge",48.43,46.63,48.66,48.4,48.38 "m3.xlarge",61.25,60.77,60.43,60.96,60.68 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",40.1,40.99,41.3,40.79,40.86 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",152.38,151.25,151.23,152.93,150.88 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",1691.5858740807,1684.679443121,1679.0691649914 "m1.medium",813.81545996666,812.57346892357,811.60316896439 "m1.large",376.97850990295,372.80415010452,374.45759391785 "m1.xlarge",235.45745992661,231.23823595047,235.05044198036 "m3.xlarge",214.18369293213,210.99211001396,209.12209606171 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",359.51537179947,355.88124680519,355.10836005211 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",88.91551399231,87.568384170532,87.836390018463 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",98.00782084465,97.091320037842,97.486155986786 "m1.medium",43.164710998535,42.786757946014,42.738347053528 "m1.large",25.360718011856,27.165295124054,26.980324983597,27.066704034805 "m1.xlarge",15.449838161469,14.942771911621,16.960391998291,16.283815860748,17.518660068512,17.641111135483 "m3.xlarge",12.342285871506,11.391081094742,12.405874013901,12.519860982895,11.433588981628,11.525011062622 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",19.163079023361,18.58825302124,18.691529989243 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",5.6544768810272,6.7638039588928,5.6391179561615,5.1031467914581,5.6949579715729,5.7178959846497 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "m1.small",824.91373896599,821.19531321526,819.1799030304 "m1.medium",359.48930597305,360.40924882889,360.13441801071 "m1.large",179.52760910988,179.51930904388,179.51940202713 "m1.xlarge",123.5226919651,124.57331895828,123.53895187378 "m3.xlarge",96.167899131775,94.214601039886,101.13219594955,100.4363079071 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",205.59788584709,206.02696704865,205.78556704521 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",55.99643611908,56.286440849304,55.999442100525 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Sharpen", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",5,5,5 "m1.medium",8,8,8 "m1.large",17,17,17 "m1.xlarge",28,28,28 "m3.xlarge",39,39,39 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",25,25,25 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",69,69,69 "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",394,417,374,423,443,443 "m1.medium",1497,1506,1506 "m1.large",1602,1612,1602 "m1.xlarge",1282,1288,1282 "m3.xlarge",2032,2032,2083 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",2136,2100,2136 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",4545,4629,4545 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",10,10,10 "m1.medium",20,20,20 "m1.large",33,33,33 "m1.xlarge",46,46,46 "m3.xlarge",61,60,61 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",41,41,41 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",106,106,106 "AIO-Stress 0.21 - Test: Random Write", Higher Results Are Better "m1.small",34.1,35.22,36.54 "m1.medium",46.55,48.26,62.32,62.88,66.14,68.1 "m1.large",143.66,164,158.27,183.5,185.94,340.38 "m1.xlarge",842.79,680.18,492.99,477.43,844.52,823.52 "m3.xlarge",424.01,2049.17,2057.74,2066.54,2091.75,1912.27 "Core i3 3217U IvyBridge",64.87,58.77,56.92,57.38,57.11,57.17 "Core i7 4750HQ Haswell",876.72,876.52,868.8