Best multi-core performance servers with 2 vCPUs

This is a manually curated list of 2 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.large, m6a.large, and c6a.large showing only m6a.large with 8 GiB of memory; similarly GCP's c2d-highmem-2, c2d-standard-2, and c2d-highcpu-2 showing only c2d-standard-2 with 8 GiB of memory).

	M7A.LARGE 💪	T2D-STANDARD-2 🥇	D2PS_V6	DC2S_V3	CAX11 💰	T2A-STANDARD-2	CLOUDNATIVE-2XCPU-4GB
Vendor
$Core	372,504/USD Best (ondemand): 52,710/USD Best (spot): 372,504/USD	592,842/USD Best (ondemand): 95,620/USD Best (spot): 592,842/USD	485,386/USD Best (ondemand): 89,303/USD Best (spot): 485,386/USD	181,897/USD Best (ondemand): 33,618/USD Best (spot): 181,897/USD	591,913/USD Best (ondemand): 591,913/USD Best (spot): -	168,759/USD Best (ondemand): 46,683/USD Best (spot): 168,759/USD	60,355/USD Best (ondemand): 60,355/USD Best (spot): -
SCore All	6109	5336	4126	3765	3611	3595	1545
SCore Single	3078	2693	2075	1898	1821	1812	783
Best spot price	0.0164 USD eu-south-2b	0.009 USD us-south1-c	0.0085 USD centralindia-1	0.0207 USD italynorth-1	- -	0.0213 USD us-central1-a	- -
Best ondemand price	0.1159 USD us-east-1d	0.0558 USD asia-south1-b	0.0462 USD centralindia-1	0.112 USD italynorth-1	0.0061 USD nbg1-dc3	0.077 USD us-central1-a	0.0256 USD Sydney #1
CPU
vCPUs	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Hypervisor	nitro		Microsoft Hyper-V	Microsoft Hyper-V	QEMU		KVM
CPU Allocation	Dedicated	Dedicated	Dedicated	Dedicated	Shared	Dedicated	Shared
CPU Cores	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
CPU Speed	3.7 GHz		3.4 GHz	2.8 GHz	2 GHz	3 GHz	2 GHz
CPU Architecture	x86_64	x86_64	arm64	x86_64	arm64	arm64	x86_64
CPU Manufacturer	AMD	AMD	Microsoft	Intel	Ampere		AMD
CPU Family	EPYC	EPYC	ARM	Xeon	Ampere Altra	ARMv8	EPYC
CPU Model	9R14	7B13	Neoverse-N2	8370C	Neoverse-N1	Neoverse-N1	7542
CPU L1D Cache	32 KiB	32 KiB	64 KiB	48 KiB		64 KiB	64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total	64 KiB	64 KiB	128 KiB	96 KiB		128 KiB	128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache	32 KiB	32 KiB	64 KiB	32 KiB		64 KiB	64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total	64 KiB	64 KiB	128 KiB	64 KiB		128 KiB	128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache	1024 KiB	512 KiB	1024 KiB	1280 KiB		1024 KiB	512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total	2048 KiB	1024 KiB	2048 KiB	2560 KiB		2048 KiB	1024 KiB
CPU L3 Cache	8192 KiB	32768 KiB	131072 KiB	49152 KiB		32768 KiB	16384 KiB
CPU L3 Cache Total	8192 KiB	32768 KiB	131072 KiB	49152 KiB		32768 KiB	16384 KiB
Memory
Memory Amount	8 GiB	8 GiB	8 GiB	16 GiB	4 GiB	8 GiB	4 GiB
Memory Generation	DDR5
Memory Speed	4800 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Storage
Storage Size	-	-	-	-	40 GB	-	-
Storage Type					ssd
Network
Network Speed	0.781 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	2048 GB/month
IPv4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench

PassMark (CPU)

String Sorting	7.48K	6.08K	10.01K	6.25K	6.66K	6.66K	5.72K
Single Threaded	2.89K	2.35K	1.88K	2.43K	1.31K	1.32K	2.19K
Prime Numbers	38.96	30.48	26.55	33.46	17.14	18.35	32.40
Physics	693.94	550.76	630.76	571.25	313.97	383.41	542.92
Mark	5.38K	4.42K	2.01K	4.54K	1.58K	1.60K	4.19K
Integer Maths	12.01K	10.28K	12.53K	10.39K	9.32K	9.35K	9.60K
Floating Point Maths	10.61K	8.32K	10.52K	8.63K	7.07K	7.10K	6.94K
Extended Instructions	4.70K	3.64K	1.78K	3.50K	1.47K	1.47K	3.39K
Encryption	2.60K	2.21K	370.46	2.33K	318.38	321.71	2.31K
Compression	51.26K	43.12K	13.56K	44.54K	10.35K	10.38K	41.78K
PassMark (Memory)

Memory Write	25.86K	14.00K	25.56K	10.82K	14.88K	14.88K	11.66K
Memory Read Uncached	26.96K	14.01K	17.96K	11.89K	8.46K	9.09K	11.74K
Memory Read Cached	27.86K	23.93K	25.56K	24.53K	11.22K	11.29K	25.28K
Memory Mark	1.06K	981.37	1.03K	2.02K	885.42	858.29	1.05K
Memory Latency	80.01	80.66	55.26	58.45	74.41	70.44	56.03
Database Operations	1.94K	1.66K	2.43K	2.02K	1.36K	1.42K	1.36K
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
Memory latency
Memory write bandwidth
Memory read bandwidth
Memory copy bandwidth
BogoMips
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Best multi-core performance servers with 2 vCPUs

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Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench

PassMark (CPU)

PassMark (Memory)

Stress-ng div16 Raw Scores per vCPU

Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance per vCPU

LLM Inference Speed

Further Benchmarks

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