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). CAX41  💰   | ||||||||
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| Vendor | ||||||||
 $Core   |  153,047/USD   Best (ondemand): 53,059/USD   Best (spot): 153,047/USD   |  674,082/USD   Best (ondemand): 96,610/USD   Best (spot): 674,082/USD   |  484,882/USD   Best (ondemand): 89,606/USD   Best (spot): 484,882/USD   |  183,254/USD   Best (ondemand): 33,865/USD   Best (spot): 183,254/USD   |  658,775/USD   Best (ondemand): 658,775/USD   Best (spot): -   |  170,150/USD   Best (ondemand): 47,051/USD   Best (spot): 170,150/USD   |  276,529/USD   Best (ondemand): 53,175/USD   Best (spot): 276,529/USD   |  25,109/USD   Best (ondemand): 25,109/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 |  0.3215 USD   eu-north-1b   |  0.06394 USD   us-east5-c   |  0.068376 USD   centralindia-1   |  0.165581 USD   italynorth-1   |  -   -   |  0.17034 USD   us-central1-a   |  0.0987 USD   ap-east-1a   |  -   -   | 
| Best ondemand price |  0.92736 USD   us-east-1d   |  0.44613 USD   asia-south1-b   |  0.37 USD   centralindia-1   |  0.896 USD   italynorth-1   |  0.0442 USD   nbg1-dc3   |  0.616 USD   us-central1-a   |  0.51328 USD   ap-south-1a   |  0.4626 USD   Sydney #1   | 
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   |  AMD   |  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 L1 Cache   |  1 MiB   |  1 MiB   |  2 MiB   |  1 MiB   |  2 MiB   |  2 MiB   | ||
 CPU L2 Cache   |  16 MiB   |  8 MiB   |  16 MiB   |  20 MiB   |  32 MiB   |  8 MiB   | ||
 CPU L3 Cache   |  64 MiB   |  64 MiB   |  128 MiB   |  48 MiB   |  36 MiB   |  256 MiB   | ||
Memory | ||||||||
 Memory Amount   |  64 GiB   |  64 GiB   |  64 GiB   |  128 GiB   |  32 GiB   |  64 GiB   |  64 GiB   |  64 GiB   | 
 Memory Generation   |  DDR5   | |||||||
 Memory Speed   |  4800 Mhz   | |||||||
GPU | ||||||||
 GPU Count   |  0    |  0    |  0    |  0    |  0    |  0    |  0    |  0    | 
Storage | ||||||||
 Storage Size   |  -   |  -   |  -   |  -   |  320 GB   |  -   |  -   |  -   | 
 Storage Type   |  ssd   | |||||||
Network | ||||||||
 Network Speed   |  6.25 Gbps   |  7.5 Gbps   | ||||||
 Inbound Traffic   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   | 
 Outbound Traffic   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  20480 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  0 GB/month   |  20480 GB/month   | 
 IPv4   |  0    |  0    |  0    |  0    |  0    |  0    |  0    |  0    | 
Memory Bandwidth  | ||||||||
Compression  | ||||||||
OpenSSL  | ||||||||
Geekbench  | ||||||||
PassMark (CPU)  | ||||||||
String Sorting  | 59,767.87 | 49,375.98 | 82,228.85 | 49,631.79 | 53,750.59 | 54,221.39 | 74,096.18 | 39,802.22 | 
Single Threaded  | 2,886.93 | 2,377.87 | 1,880.78 | 2,439.16 | 1,315.87 | 1,321.32 | 1,943.68 | 2,183.97 | 
Prime Numbers  | 302.35 | 246.19 | 225.03 | 252.81 | 99.27 | 118.18 | 259.95 | 176.88 | 
Physics  | 4,151.24 | 3,876.22 | 5,185.03 | 3,269.44 | 1,788.87 | 1,943.82 | 4,874.69 | 2,438.62 | 
Mark  | 36,510.83 | 30,445.9 | 14,757.07 | 30,808.32 | 11,513.73 | 11,602.63 | 14,603.02 | 25,240.42 | 
Integer Maths  | 96,616.72 | 83,268.09 | 100,914.4 | 84,277.89 | 75,221.39 | 75,424.98 | 83,462.34 | 71,932.72 | 
Floating Point Maths  | 85,203.77 | 67,284.79 | 84,762.27 | 69,435.9 | 57,182.27 | 57,256.46 | 96,968.78 | 50,040.85 | 
Extended Instructions  | 39,424.67 | 31,099.88 | 14,309.13 | 29,822.48 | 11,917.77 | 11,896.66 | 14,735.4 | 21,506 | 
Encryption  | 20,845.22 | 17,971.46 | 3,011.54 | 18,777.9 | 2,590.29 | 2,588.14 | 3,028.87 | 18,164.5 | 
Compression  | 420,866.44 | 352,946.67 | 109,871.78 | 362,222.12 | 90,071.45 | 90,392.54 | 106,418.96 | 292,199.24 | 
PassMark (Memory)  | ||||||||
Memory Write  | 25,794.54 | 17,025.2 | 25,731.03 | 10,617.65 | 14,694.48 | 14,851.73 | 21,212.47 | 9,691.37 | 
Memory Read Uncached  | 27,064.12 | 16,704.19 | 19,223.65 | 11,456.79 | 8,538.52 | 8,925.09 | 19,929.92 | 11,006.82 | 
Memory Read Cached  | 27,837.39 | 24,306.42 | 25,611.66 | 24,479.87 | 11,277.35 | 11,290.92 | 20,515.17 | 24,644.35 | 
Memory Mark  | 2,672.69 | 2,720.2 | 3,240.91 | 2,586.65 | 1,828.1 | 1,931.6 | 3,213.67 | 1,682.75 | 
Memory Latency  | 79.08 | 64.26 | 54.58 | 59.48 | 75.05 | 70.04 | 48.72 | 119.83 | 
Database Operations  | 14,910.33 | 13,220.6 | 19,670.33 | 14,827.62 | 10,852.78 | 10,119.36 | 24,099.5 | 8,497.27 | 
Stress-ng div16 Raw Scores per vCPU  | ||||||||
Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance per vCPU  | ||||||||
LLM Inference Speed  | ||||||||
Further Benchmarks | ||||||||
 stress-ng CPU all   | ||||||||
 stress-ng div16 multi-core   | ||||||||
 stress-ng div16 single-core   | ||||||||
 BogoMips   | ||||||||
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