Intel board vs ARM board vs VPS multicore comparison KVM testing on Debian 8.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3: 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 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 2419.27 |============================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 77.09 |=============================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 30.58 |=============================================== Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 3008 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 604 |================================================= x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 26.49 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 1074.13 |============================================= 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 2386 |================================================ Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 142.17 |============================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 151.11 |============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 169.49 |============================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 732 |================================================= Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 129.65 |============================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2650L v3 . 78.27 |===============================================