cpu-base KVM testing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Test01: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 2.50GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.large (1.0 BIOS), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 32GB Amazon Elastic Block Store OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.5, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM Test02: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M @ 2.50GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.large (1.0 BIOS), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 32GB Amazon Elastic Block Store OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.5, Kernel: 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better Test01 . 2614.79 |============================================================= Test02 . 2614.57 |============================================================= CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Test01 . 21822.38 |============================================================ Test02 . 21822.41 |============================================================ CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Test01 . 22831.29 |============================================================ Test02 . 22827.36 |============================================================ Crafty 25.2 Elapsed Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Test01 . 6087462 |============================================================= Test02 . 6014137 |============================================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Test01 . 480.31 |============================================================= Test02 . 486.31 |============================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Test01 . 95.83 |=============================================================== Test02 . 95.87 |=============================================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Test01 . 49.11 |=============================================================== Test02 . 49.13 |===============================================================