Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison KVM testing on Debian 8.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 @ 1.80GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: DigitalOcean Droplet v20160415, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 512 MB RAM, Disk: 20GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.5, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Intel Atom C2750: Processor: Intel Atom C2750 @ 2.39GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Online Labs SR v42, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 46GB OS: Debian 8.5, Kernel: 4.5.1-std-1 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4 IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 1285.09 |========= Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 3478.64 |========================= IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 925.86 |========================== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 152.06 |==== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 2021 |============================ Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 1458 |==================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Atom C2750 . 9401.38 |=================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Atom C2750 . 9582.40 |=================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Atom C2750 . 11565.32 |================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Atom C2750 . 11351.72 |================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 2446.67 |================ Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 3856.77 |========================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 75.61 |=========================== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 21.81 |======== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 29.50 |=========================== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 11.22 |========== Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 2860 |================ Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 4890 |============================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 629 |==== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 4185 |============================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 1153.24 |========================= Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 616.92 |============= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 163.62 |========================== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 51.64 |======== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Atom C2750 . 19.09 |===================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 503.21 |=============== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 859.91 |========================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 120.51 |============= Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 242.50 |========================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 19.83 |============== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 38.40 |=========================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 41.36 |=========================== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 34.10 |====================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 81.63 |========== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 216.20 |========================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 6217.00 |=================== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 8170.45 |========================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS comparison . 85486 |=========================== Intel Atom C2750 ........................... 34482 |===========