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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$Core
158,418/USD
707,382/USD
448,031/USD
241,896/USD
729,770/USD
196,644/USD
285,795/USD
SCore All
49205
43101
33154
30343
29118
28983
27293
SCore Single
3073
2695
2073
1898
1822
1813
1707
Best spot price
0.3106 USD
eu-south-2a
0.06093 USD
us-east5-c
0.074 USD
centralindia-1
0.12544 USD
italynorth-1
-
-
0.14739 USD
us-central1-a
0.0955 USD
us-west-2a
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
0.0399 USD
nbg1-dc3
0.616 USD
us-central1-a
0.71808 USD
us-east-1d

CPU

vCPUs
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
Hypervisor
nitro
Microsoft Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V
QEMU
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
Dedicated
Dedicated
Dedicated
Shared
Dedicated
Dedicated
CPU Cores
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
CPU Architecture
x86_64
x86_64
arm64
x86_64
arm64
arm64
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
AMD
Microsoft
Intel
AMD
AWS
CPU Family
EPYC
EPYC
ARM
Xeon
Ampere Altra
ARMv8
CPU Model
9R14
7B13
Cobalt 100
8370C
Neoverse-N1
Neoverse-N1
Graviton4
CPU L1 Cache
1 MiB
1 MiB
2 MiB
1 MiB
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
16 MiB
8 MiB
16 MiB
20 MiB
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
64 MiB
64 MiB
128 MiB
48 MiB
36 MiB

Memory

Memory Amount
64 GiB
64 GiB
64 GiB
128 GiB
32 GiB
64 GiB
64 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR5
Memory Speed
4800 Mhz

GPU

GPU Count
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
Outbound Traffic
0 GB/month
0 GB/month
0 GB/month
0 GB/month
20480 GB/month
0 GB/month
0 GB/month
IPv4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Memory bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL speed

Geekbench

PassMark CPU benchmarks

String Sorting
59,767.87 49,375.98 82,228.85 49,631.79 53,750.59 54,221.39 74,096.18
Single Threaded
2,886.93 2,377.87 1,880.78 2,439.16 1,315.87 1,321.32 1,943.68
Prime Numbers
302.35 246.19 225.03 252.81 99.27 118.18 259.95
Physics
4,151.24 3,876.22 5,185.03 3,269.44 1,788.87 1,943.82 4,874.69
Mark
36,510.83 30,445.9 14,757.07 30,808.32 11,513.73 11,602.63 14,603.02
Integer Maths
96,616.72 83,268.09 100,914.4 84,277.89 75,221.39 75,424.98 83,462.34
Floating Point Maths
85,203.77 67,284.79 84,762.27 69,435.9 57,182.27 57,256.46 96,968.78
Extended Instructions
39,424.67 31,099.88 14,309.13 29,822.48 11,917.77 11,896.66 14,735.4
Encryption
20,845.22 17,971.46 3,011.54 18,777.9 2,590.29 2,588.14 3,028.87
Compression
420,866.44 352,946.67 109,871.78 362,222.12 90,071.45 90,392.54 106,418.96

PassMark Memory benchmarks

Memory Write
25,794.54 17,025.2 25,731.03 10,617.65 14,694.48 14,851.73 21,212.47
Memory Read Uncached
27,064.12 16,704.19 19,223.65 11,456.79 8,538.52 8,925.09 19,929.92
Memory Read Cached
27,837.39 24,306.42 25,611.66 24,479.87 11,277.35 11,290.92 20,515.17
Memory Mark
2,672.69 2,720.2 3,240.91 2,586.65 1,828.1 1,931.6 3,213.67
Memory Latency
79.08 64.26 54.58 59.48 75.05 70.04 48.72
Database Operations
14,910.33 13,220.6 19,670.33 14,827.62 10,852.78 10,119.36 24,099.5

stress-ng div16 raw scores per vCPU

stress-ng relative multicore performance per vCPU

Further Benchmarks

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