GCP Instance Comparison
KVM testing on Ubuntu 17.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Google Compute Engine, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 11GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-25-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM

GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.30GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Google Compute Engine, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 11GB PersistentDisk, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-25-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM


iPerf 3.1.3
Server Address: iperf.it-north.net - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 10 Seconds - Test: TCP - Parallel: 20
Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 23.47 |===============================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 23.40 |===============================================


iPerf 3.1.3
Server Address: iperf.it-north.net - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 10 Seconds - Test: UDP - Parallel: 20
Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 21 |==================================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 21 |==================================================


iPerf 3.1.3
Server Address: iperf.it-north.net - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 10 Seconds - Test: UDP - 100Mbit Objective - Parallel: 20
Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 1358.52 |===============================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 1986.00 |=============================================


iPerf 3.1.3
Server Address: iperf.it-north.net - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 10 Seconds - Test: UDP - 1000Mbit Objective - Parallel: 20
Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 9161 |================================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 4420 |=======================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Composite
Mflops > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 378.28 |============================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 395.02 |==============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Monte Carlo
Mflops > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 92.14 |===============================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 92.53 |===============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform
Mflops > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 84.39  |=====================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 104.40 |==============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply
Mflops > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 460.99 |==============================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 464.73 |==============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization
Mflops > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 517.41 |==========================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 571.83 |==============================================


SciMark 2.0
Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation
Mflops > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 736.47 |==============================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 741.61 |==============================================


TSCP 1.81
AI Chess Performance
Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 889504 |==============================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 895288 |==============================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 821  |==============================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 1328 |================================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 4141000 |==========================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 4479333 |=============================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 13311 |=====================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 16726 |===============================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 1638.56 |=============================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 1655.14 |=============================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 8.98 |================================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 8.93 |================================================


Sudokut 0.4
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 15.23 |=============================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 15.75 |===============================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 114.63 |=========================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 129.75 |==============================================


OpenSSL 1.0.2g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
GCP 1 CPU 1GB east1b ... 124.57 |============================================
GCP 2 CPU 1.8GB east1b . 130.90 |==============================================