Best multi-core performance servers with 16 vCPUs

This is a manually curated list of 16 vCPU servers with the best multi-core performance as per stress-ng's div16 CPU burning method. Note that servers using the same CPU model at the same vendor were deduplicated, and only the most general options were kept with similar memory amounts(e.g. from AWS's r6a.4xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, and c6a.4xlarge showing only m6a.4xlarge with 64 GiB of memory; similarly GCP's c2d-highmem-16, c2d-standard-16, and c2d-highcpu-16 showing only c2d-standard-16 with 64 GiB of memory).
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Vendor
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Microsoft Azure logo
Microsoft Azure logo
Hetzner Cloud logo
Google Cloud Platform logo
Amazon Web Services logo
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$Core
231,116/USD
Best (ondemand):53,057/USD
Best (spot):231,116/USD
437,128/USD
Best (ondemand):96,617/USD
Best (spot):437,128/USD
400,898/USD
Best (ondemand):89,606/USD
Best (spot):400,898/USD
183,233/USD
Best (ondemand):33,865/USD
Best (spot):183,233/USD
389,797/USD
Best (ondemand):389,797/USD
Best (spot):-
134,431/USD
Best (ondemand):47,051/USD
Best (spot):134,431/USD
298,289/USD
Best (ondemand):53,173/USD
Best (spot):298,289/USD
25,411/USD
Best (ondemand):25,411/USD
Best (spot):-
SCore All
49205
43101
33154
30343
29118
28983
27293
11615
SCore Single
3073
2695
2073
1898
1822
1813
1707
786
Best spot price
0.2129 USD
eu-south-2a
0.0986 USD
europe-west8-a
0.0827 USD
centralindia-1
0.1656 USD
italynorth-1
-
-
0.2156 USD
asia-southeast1-b
0.0915 USD
ap-southeast-3a
-
-
Best ondemand price
0.9274 USD
us-east-1d
0.4461 USD
asia-south1-b
0.37 USD
centralindia-1
0.896 USD
italynorth-1
0.0747 USD
nbg1-dc3
0.616 USD
us-central1-a
0.5133 USD
ap-south-1a
0.4571 USD
Sydney #1

Metadata

Family
m7a
t2d
Dpsv6
DCSv3
cax
t2a
m8g
Cloud Native
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
-
17
-
20
-
15
-
-
Status
active
active
active
active
active
active
active
active

CPU

vCPUs
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
Hypervisor
nitro
-
Microsoft Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V
QEMU
-
nitro
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
Dedicated
Dedicated
Dedicated
Shared
Dedicated
Dedicated
Shared
CPU Cores
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
CPU Speed
3.7 GHz
-
3.4 GHz
2.8 GHz
2 GHz
3 GHz
2.8 GHz
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
x86_64
arm64
x86_64
arm64
arm64
arm64
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
AMD
Microsoft
Intel
Ampere
Ampere
AWS
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
EPYC
ARM
Xeon
Ampere Altra
ARMv8
-
EPYC
CPU Model
9R14
7B13
Neoverse-N2
8370C
Neoverse-N1
Neoverse-N1
Neoverse-V2
7542
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
32 KiB
64 KiB
48 KiB
-
64 KiB
64 KiB
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
512 KiB
1024 KiB
768 KiB
-
1024 KiB
1024 KiB
1024 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
32 KiB
64 KiB
32 KiB
0 KiB
64 KiB
64 KiB
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
512 KiB
1024 KiB
512 KiB
0 KiB
1024 KiB
1024 KiB
1024 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
512 KiB
1 MiB
1.25 MiB
0 KiB
1 MiB
2 MiB
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16384 KiB
8192 KiB
16384 KiB
20480 KiB
0 KiB
16384 KiB
32768 KiB
8192 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
32 MiB
128 MiB
48 MiB
-
32 MiB
36 MiB
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
65536 KiB
65536 KiB
131072 KiB
49152 KiB
-
32768 KiB
36864 KiB
16384 KiB
Ecpus
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
14.8
Scalability
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
92.5

Memory

Memory Amount
64.0 GiB
64.0 GiB
64.0 GiB
128.0 GiB
31.3 GiB
64.0 GiB
64.0 GiB
64.0 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
65536 MiB
65536 MiB
65536 MiB
196608 MiB
32000 MiB
65536 MiB
64512 MiB
65536 MiB
Memory Generation
DDR5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Memory Speed
4800 Mhz
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Memory ECC
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

GPU

GPU Count
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
GPU Memory Min
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
GPU Memory Total
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB
0 GiB

Storage

Storage Size
0 GB
0 GB
0 GB
0 GB
320 GB
0 GB
0 GB
0 GB
Storage Type
-
-
-
-
nvme ssd
-
-
-

Network

Network Speed Baseline
6.25 Gbps
-
-
-
-
-
7.5 Gbps
-
Network Speed Max
12.5 Gbps
-
-
-
-
-
15 Gbps
-
Network Storage Speed Baseline
5 Gbps
-
-
-
-
-
5 Gbps
-
Network Storage Speed Max
10 Gbps
-
-
-
-
-
10 Gbps
-
Inbound Traffic
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
Outbound Traffic
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
20 TiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
20 TiB/mo
IPv4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1

Workload Profiles

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench

PassMark (CPU)

String Sorting
59.77K
49.38K
82.23K
49.63K
53.75K
54.22K
74.10K
39.80K
Single Threaded
2.89K
2.38K
1.88K
2.44K
1.32K
1.32K
1.94K
2.18K
Prime Numbers
302.35
246.19
225.03
252.81
99.28
118.19
259.95
176.88
Physics
4.15K
3.88K
5.19K
3.27K
1.79K
1.94K
4.87K
2.44K
Mark
36.51K
30.45K
14.76K
30.81K
11.51K
11.60K
14.60K
25.24K
Integer Maths
96.62K
83.27K
100.91K
84.28K
75.22K
75.42K
83.46K
71.93K
Floating Point Maths
85.20K
67.28K
84.76K
69.44K
57.18K
57.26K
96.97K
50.04K
Extended Instructions
39.42K
31.10K
14.31K
29.82K
11.92K
11.90K
14.74K
21.51K
Encryption
20.85K
17.97K
3.01K
18.78K
2.59K
2.59K
3.03K
18.16K
Compression
420.87K
352.95K
109.87K
362.22K
90.07K
90.39K
106.42K
292.20K

PassMark (Memory)

Memory Write
25.79K
17.03K
25.73K
10.62K
14.69K
14.85K
21.21K
9.69K
Memory Read Uncached
27.06K
16.70K
19.22K
11.46K
8.54K
8.93K
19.93K
11.01K
Memory Read Cached
27.84K
24.31K
25.61K
24.48K
11.28K
11.29K
20.52K
24.64K
Memory Mark
2.67K
2.72K
3.24K
2.59K
1.83K
1.93K
3.21K
1.68K
Memory Latency
79.09
64.26
54.58
59.49
75.06
70.04
48.73
119.83
Database Operations
14.91K
13.22K
19.67K
14.83K
10.85K
10.12K
24.10K
8.50K

Stress-ng div16 Raw Scores per vCPU

Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance per vCPU

LLM Inference Speed

Static Web Server

Redis

Further Benchmarks

stress-ng CPU all
stress-ng div16 multi-core
stress-ng div16 single-core
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