do-cpu-optimised KVM testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. digitalocean-cpu-optimised: Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 (4 Cores), Motherboard: DigitalOcean Droplet v20171212, Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 50GB, Graphics: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 16.60 |=========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 14.81 |=========================================== Ogg Encoding 1.3.3 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better digitalocean-cpu-optimised . 9.08 |============================================