Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com comparing various Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud instances. 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 Benchmarks,
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",103.1,103.2,102.6
"POV-Ray 3.6.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"m1.small",
"m1.medium",
"m1.large",
"m1.xlarge",
"m3.xlarge",
"idcloud2.sm1",
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",276.014,276.151,275.857
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",32.636603116989,31.551713943481,31.739272117615
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",6.5503449440002,6.4062371253967,6.3918120861053,6.3914539813995,6.3826899528503
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",92.17,92.57,92.08
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",603,592,610
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",42.670159101486,42.67599606514,42.087462902069
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",159.805,162.764,162.674
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",568.74287199974,565.15414690971,565.21903896332
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",250.41002297401,249.15804600716,249.52146196365
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",1326.127379,1316.54876,1334.766855
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",36,36,36
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",52,52,52
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",13,13,13
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",28.33,31.32,31.09,31.34,30.94,31.32,31.49,31.51
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",32532,29904,32304,32604,32352,32412
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",2056000,2064000,2064000
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",846,837,837
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",24.413014888763,24.218446969986,24.19157910347
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",57.514988183975,56.050799846649,56.114078044891
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",4654.42160658,4647.909448127,4672.2546742684
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",30.286111116409,30.148726940155,30.087410926819
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",1524,1543,1612
"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
"idcloud2.sm1",403.16,407.74,394.41