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
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.
,,"m1.small","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m3.xlarge","Core i3 3217U IvyBridge","Core i7 4750HQ Haswell","openstack"
Processor,,Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (1 Core),Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core),Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores),Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7-4750HQ @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E312xx @ 2.60GHz (1 Core)
Memory,,2048MB,4096MB,8192MB,15360MB,15360MB,4096MB,8192MB,1536MB
Disk,,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100,120GB INTEL SSDMCEAC12,10GB
Motherboard,,,,,,,ASUS K56CA v1.0,System76 Galago UltraPro,IBM OpenStack Nova
Chipset,,,,,,,Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM,Intel Crystal Well DRAM,Red Hat Virtio
Graphics,,,,,,,Intel 3rd Gen Core (1050MHz),Intel Crystal Well IGP (1200MHz),Cirrus Logic GD 5446
Audio,,,,,,,Realtek ALC270,Intel Haswell HDMI,
Network,,,,,,,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless,Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230,Red Hat Virtio device
OS,,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 14.04
Kernel,,3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64),3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.11.0-7-generic (x86_64),3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64)
Compiler,,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.6.3 20120306,GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3,GCC 4.8,GCC 4.8.4
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
System Layer,,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor,,,
Desktop,,,,,,,Xfce 4.10,Xfce 4.10,
Display Server,,,,,,,X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1),X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1),
Display Driver,,,,,,,intel 2.21.14,intel 2.21.14,
OpenGL,,,,,,,3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69),3.1 Mesa 9.2.0,
Screen Resolution,,,,,,,1366x768,1920x1080,1024x768
,,"m1.small","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m3.xlarge","Core i3 3217U IvyBridge","Core i7 4750HQ Haswell","openstack"
"Crafty - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,336.84,168.41,152.12,169.75,97.60,156.79,82.03,101.21
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,29.64,12.47,13.94,14.60,7.37,10.76,5.60,6.87
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,248.29,116.91,57.56,37.71,28.27,39.68,11.59,60.91
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,97.53,42.90,26.64,16.47,11.94,18.81,5.76,26.35
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,320.44,758.05,744.23,593.28,1268.27,784.96,1525.08,1269.11
"Dolfyn - Computational Fluid Dynamics (sec)",LIB,128.75,54.76,55.59,67.74,32.28,51.62,25.59,32.27
"FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,1244.62,2509.43,2599.04,2523.43,4203.54,2717.60,4962.37,4031.10
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,416,1503,1605,1284,2049,2124,4573,2953
"N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,1000.52,457.55,238.75,114.65,98.47,164.90,47.26,313.49
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,821.76,360.01,179.52,123.88,97.99,205.80,56.09,
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,252,432,1076,1989,2074,1454,5406,741
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,895772333,2146667,3860667,8103500,8240667,2443667,8388000,1786333
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,8529,16432,17556,18224,26892,18672,34124,27908
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,206.23,80.44,44.50,19.54,18.97,31.51,7.92,44.03
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,1685.11,812.66,374.75,233.92,211.43,356.83,88.11,479.40
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,5,8,17,28,39,25,69,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,14,29,45,57,91,60,139,
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,10,20,33,46,61,41,106,
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,7.61,16.33,30.40,48.10,60.82,40.81,151.73,33.09
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,802.18,429.75,190.58,107.69,125.53,114.46,28.32,137.24
"POV-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,2997,1557,1450,1620,933,1414,744,905
"FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,122.54,57.46,34.35,28.53,19.71,30.88,,
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,2669,1286,635,331,265,360,102,613
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,21.13,55.77,44.43,43.23,93.40,60.17,121.83,
"AIO-Stress - Test: Random Write (MB/s)",HIB,35.29,59.04,195.96,693.57,1766.91,58.70,874.01,500.75