smallpt-test KVM testing on Amazon Linux 2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. C5a.8XL-1: Processor: AMD EPYC 7R32 (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5a.8xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 64 GB DDR4-2933MHz, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.238-182.422.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180712, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM C5a.8XL-2: Processor: AMD EPYC 7R32 (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5a.8xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 64 GB DDR4-2933MHz, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.238-182.422.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180712, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM C5a.8XL-3: Processor: AMD EPYC 7R32 (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5a.8xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 64 GB DDR4-2933MHz, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.238-182.422.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180712, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM C5a.8XL-4: Processor: AMD EPYC 7R32 (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5a.8xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 64 GB DDR4-2933MHz, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.238-182.422.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180712, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM C5a.8XL-5: Processor: AMD EPYC 7R32 (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5a.8xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 64 GB DDR4-2933MHz, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.238-182.422.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180712, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM C5.8XL-1: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5.9xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 72 GB DDR4-2666MHz, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.238-182.422.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180712, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM C5.8XL-2: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5.9xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 72 GB DDR4-2666MHz, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.238-182.422.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180712, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM C5.8XL-3: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5.9xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 72 GB DDR4-2666MHz, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.238-182.422.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180712, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better C5a.8XL-1 . 7.679 |========================================================== C5a.8XL-2 . 7.835 |=========================================================== C5a.8XL-3 . 8.008 |============================================================ C5a.8XL-4 . 7.755 |========================================================== C5a.8XL-5 . 7.864 |=========================================================== C5.8XL-1 .. 6.948 |==================================================== C5.8XL-2 .. 6.990 |==================================================== C5.8XL-3 .. 7.025 |=====================================================