Intel KVM testing on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 t3.small (1.0 BIOS), Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 54GB Amazon Elastic Block Store OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-1034-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel . 15553.66 |============================================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Intel . 350644 |=============================================================== PHP Micro Benchmarks Test: Zend bench Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel . 1.145 |================================================================ PHP Micro Benchmarks Test: Zend micro_bench Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel . 2.897 |================================================================