m4xlarge Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon testing on Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 30GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82599 Virtual Function OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03, Kernel: 4.4.5-15.26.amzn1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 30355.72 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 22838.48 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 25018.10 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 24904.36 |============================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 12.13 |================================================ Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 2667 |================================================= TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 947982 |=============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 3762000 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 2414 |================================================= x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 65.71 |================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 128 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 65 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 38 |=================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 94 |=================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 1405.34 |============================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 9028 |================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 62.74 |================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 47.06 |================================================ Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 224 |================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 96.70 |================================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 11.57 |================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 18.40 |================================================ FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 28.59 |================================================ POV-Ray 3.7.0 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 355.18 |=============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 225.50 |=============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 . 18762.84 |=============================================