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:
Processor: Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz (1 Core), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
m1.medium:
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
m1.large:
Processor: Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
m1.xlarge:
Processor: Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
m3.xlarge:
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 8GB
OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03, Kernel: 3.4.43-43.43.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 3.4.3.amazon Hypervisor
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell:
Processor: Intel Core i7-4750HQ @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Galago UltraPro, Chipset: Intel Crystal Well DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDMCEAC12, Graphics: Intel Crystal Well IGP (1200MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.21.14, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge:
Processor: Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K56CA v1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC270, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.21.14, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-a1b6e69), Compiler: GCC 4.8 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768
openstack:
Processor: Intel Xeon E312xx @ 2.60GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: IBM OpenStack Nova, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1536MB, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device
OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
x264 2013-06-08
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 7.61 |==
m1.medium ............... 16.33 |=====
m1.large ................ 30.40 |=========
m1.xlarge ............... 48.10 |==============
m3.xlarge ............... 60.82 |==================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 151.73 |=============================================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 40.81 |============
openstack ............... 33.09 |==========
GraphicsMagick 1.3.16
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 5 |====
m1.medium ............... 8 |======
m1.large ................ 17 |============
m1.xlarge ............... 28 |====================
m3.xlarge ............... 39 |============================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 69 |=================================================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 25 |==================
GraphicsMagick 1.3.16
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 14 |=====
m1.medium ............... 29 |==========
m1.large ................ 45 |================
m1.xlarge ............... 57 |====================
m3.xlarge ............... 91 |===============================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 139 |================================================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 60 |=====================
GraphicsMagick 1.3.16
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 10 |=====
m1.medium ............... 20 |=========
m1.large ................ 33 |===============
m1.xlarge ............... 46 |=====================
m3.xlarge ............... 61 |============================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 106 |================================================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 41 |===================
AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 35.29 |=
m1.medium ............... 59.04 |=
m1.large ................ 195.96 |=====
m1.xlarge ............... 693.57 |=================
m3.xlarge ............... 1766.91 |============================================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 874.01 |======================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 58.70 |=
openstack ............... 500.75 |============
FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 1244.62 |===========
m1.medium ............... 2509.43 |======================
m1.large ................ 2599.04 |=======================
m1.xlarge ............... 2523.43 |======================
m3.xlarge ............... 4203.54 |=====================================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 4962.37 |============================================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 2717.60 |========================
openstack ............... 4031.10 |====================================
Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 320.44 |=========
m1.medium ............... 758.05 |======================
m1.large ................ 744.23 |=====================
m1.xlarge ............... 593.28 |=================
m3.xlarge ............... 1268.27 |=====================================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 1525.08 |============================================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 784.96 |=======================
openstack ............... 1269.11 |=====================================
John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 252 |==
m1.medium ............... 432 |====
m1.large ................ 1076 |=========
m1.xlarge ............... 1989 |=================
m3.xlarge ............... 2074 |==================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 5406 |===============================================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 1454 |=============
openstack ............... 741 |======
John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 895772333 |==========================================
m1.medium ............... 2146667 |
m1.large ................ 3860667 |
m1.xlarge ............... 8103500 |
m3.xlarge ............... 8240667 |
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 8388000 |
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 2443667 |
openstack ............... 1786333 |
John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 8529 |===========
m1.medium ............... 16432 |======================
m1.large ................ 17556 |========================
m1.xlarge ............... 18224 |=========================
m3.xlarge ............... 26892 |====================================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 34124 |==============================================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 18672 |=========================
openstack ............... 27908 |======================================
OpenSSL 1.0.1c
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 21.13 |========
m1.medium ............... 55.77 |=====================
m1.large ................ 44.43 |================
m1.xlarge ............... 43.23 |================
m3.xlarge ............... 93.40 |==================================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 121.83 |=============================================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 60.17 |======================
PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
m1.small ................ 416 |====
m1.medium ............... 1503 |===============
m1.large ................ 1605 |================
m1.xlarge ............... 1284 |=============
m3.xlarge ............... 2049 |=====================
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 4573 |===============================================
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 2124 |======================
openstack ............... 2953 |==============================
Dolfyn 0.527
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 128.75 |=============================================
m1.medium ............... 54.76 |===================
m1.large ................ 55.59 |===================
m1.xlarge ............... 67.74 |========================
m3.xlarge ............... 32.28 |===========
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 25.59 |=========
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 51.62 |==================
openstack ............... 32.27 |===========
Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 248.29 |=============================================
m1.medium ............... 116.91 |=====================
m1.large ................ 57.56 |==========
m1.xlarge ............... 37.71 |=======
m3.xlarge ............... 28.27 |=====
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 11.59 |==
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 39.68 |=======
openstack ............... 60.91 |===========
Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 97.53 |==============================================
m1.medium ............... 42.90 |====================
m1.large ................ 26.64 |=============
m1.xlarge ............... 16.47 |========
m3.xlarge ............... 11.94 |======
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 5.76 |===
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 18.81 |=========
openstack ............... 26.35 |============
Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 821.76 |=============================================
m1.medium ............... 360.01 |====================
m1.large ................ 179.52 |==========
m1.xlarge ............... 123.88 |=======
m3.xlarge ............... 97.99 |=====
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 56.09 |===
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 205.80 |===========
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 1685.11 |============================================
m1.medium ............... 812.66 |=====================
m1.large ................ 374.75 |==========
m1.xlarge ............... 233.92 |======
m3.xlarge ............... 211.43 |======
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 88.11 |==
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 356.83 |=========
openstack ............... 479.40 |=============
C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 802.18 |=============================================
m1.medium ............... 429.75 |========================
m1.large ................ 190.58 |===========
m1.xlarge ............... 107.69 |======
m3.xlarge ............... 125.53 |=======
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 28.32 |==
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 114.46 |======
openstack ............... 137.24 |========
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 206.23 |=============================================
m1.medium ............... 80.44 |==================
m1.large ................ 44.50 |==========
m1.xlarge ............... 19.54 |====
m3.xlarge ............... 18.97 |====
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 7.92 |==
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 31.51 |=======
openstack ............... 44.03 |==========
Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 2669 |===============================================
m1.medium ............... 1286 |=======================
m1.large ................ 635 |===========
m1.xlarge ............... 331 |======
m3.xlarge ............... 265 |=====
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 102 |==
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 360 |======
openstack ............... 613 |===========
Crafty 23.4
Elapsed Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 336.84 |=============================================
m1.medium ............... 168.41 |======================
m1.large ................ 152.12 |====================
m1.xlarge ............... 169.75 |=======================
m3.xlarge ............... 97.60 |=============
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 82.03 |===========
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 156.79 |=====================
openstack ............... 101.21 |==============
FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 29.64 |==============================================
m1.medium ............... 12.47 |===================
m1.large ................ 13.94 |======================
m1.xlarge ............... 14.60 |=======================
m3.xlarge ............... 7.37 |===========
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 5.60 |=========
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 10.76 |=================
openstack ............... 6.87 |===========
FFmpeg 2.0
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 122.54 |=============================================
m1.medium ............... 57.46 |=====================
m1.large ................ 34.35 |=============
m1.xlarge ............... 28.53 |==========
m3.xlarge ............... 19.71 |=======
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 30.88 |===========
N-Queens 1.0
Elapsed Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 1000.52 |============================================
m1.medium ............... 457.55 |====================
m1.large ................ 238.75 |==========
m1.xlarge ............... 114.65 |=====
m3.xlarge ............... 98.47 |====
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 47.26 |==
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 164.90 |=======
openstack ............... 313.49 |==============
POV-Ray 3.6.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
m1.small ................ 2997 |===============================================
m1.medium ............... 1557 |========================
m1.large ................ 1450 |=======================
m1.xlarge ............... 1620 |=========================
m3.xlarge ............... 933 |===============
Core i7 4750HQ Haswell .. 744 |============
Core i3 3217U IvyBridge . 1414 |======================
openstack ............... 905 |==============