Favorite favorite-UT-S 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-2650 0: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: OpenStack Foundation Nova v2014.1.3, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 30GB OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-30-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: aufs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 77.17 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Client MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 112.82 |================================================ Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 14.66 |================================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 2555 |================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 1305 |================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 3144333 |=============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 21481 |================================================= x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 43.03 |================================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 5336 |================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 78.45 |================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 80.49 |================================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 369 |=================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 104.53 |================================================ dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 80.98 |================================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 11.82 |================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 19.63 |================================================= FFmpeg 2.6.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 34.01 |================================================= GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 12.21 |================================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 171.00 |================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650 0 . 6033.58 |===============================================