2xl-compare KVM testing on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. ecs.c7.2xlarge: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8369B (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Alibaba Cloud ECS (edce5b4 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB RAM, Disk: 99GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-74-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM c5.2xlarge: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB DDR4-2933MT/s, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-1047-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM x264 2019-12-17 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ecs.c7.2xlarge . 44.41 |======================================================= c5.2xlarge ..... 34.12 |========================================== x265 3.4 Video Input: Bosphorus 4K Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ecs.c7.2xlarge . 7.18 |======================================================== c5.2xlarge ..... 5.96 |============================================== x265 3.4 Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better ecs.c7.2xlarge . 33.77 |======================================================= c5.2xlarge ..... 27.67 |============================================= 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better ecs.c7.2xlarge . 27930 |======================================================= c5.2xlarge ..... 23171 |============================================== Redis 6.0.9 Test: LPOP Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ecs.c7.2xlarge . 2294510.50 |================================================== c5.2xlarge ..... 2114045.46 |============================================== Redis 6.0.9 Test: SADD Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ecs.c7.2xlarge . 1882746.42 |================================================== c5.2xlarge ..... 1725840.63 |============================================== Redis 6.0.9 Test: LPUSH Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ecs.c7.2xlarge . 1470998.29 |================================================== c5.2xlarge ..... 1313214.13 |============================================= Redis 6.0.9 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ecs.c7.2xlarge . 2180023.75 |================================================== c5.2xlarge ..... 2002896.25 |============================================== Redis 6.0.9 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ecs.c7.2xlarge . 1707619.04 |================================================== c5.2xlarge ..... 1468131.87 |=========================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ecs.c7.2xlarge . 34569.25 |==================================================== c5.2xlarge ..... 29026.66 |============================================