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).
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$Core
227,103/USD
Best (ondemand):52,710/USD
Best (spot):227,103/USD
423,459/USD
Best (ondemand):95,620/USD
Best (spot):423,459/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
325,286/USD
Best (ondemand):325,286/USD
Best (spot):-
127,017/USD
Best (ondemand):46,683/USD
Best (spot):127,017/USD
60,120/USD
Best (ondemand):60,120/USD
Best (spot):-
SCore All
6109
5336
4126
3765
3611
3595
1545
SCore Single
3078
2693
2075
1898
1821
1812
783
Best spot price
0.0269 USD
eu-south-2c
0.0126 USD
europe-southwest1-b
0.0085 USD
centralindia-1
0.0207 USD
italynorth-1
-
-
0.0283 USD
asia-southeast1-b
-
-
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
0.0111 USD
nbg1-dc3
0.077 USD
us-central1-a
0.0257 USD
Sydney #1

Metadata

Family
m7a
t2d
Dpsv6
DCSv3
cax
t2a
Cloud Native
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
-
18.75
16
19
-
12.67
-
Status
active
active
active
active
active
active
active

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
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
0 KiB
64 KiB
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
64 KiB
128 KiB
64 KiB
0 KiB
128 KiB
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
512 KiB
1 MiB
1.25 MiB
0 KiB
1 MiB
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2048 KiB
1024 KiB
2048 KiB
2560 KiB
0 KiB
2048 KiB
1024 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
8 MiB
32 MiB
128 MiB
48 MiB
-
32 MiB
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
8192 KiB
32768 KiB
131072 KiB
49152 KiB
-
32768 KiB
16384 KiB
Ecpus
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
Scalability
100
100
100
100
100
100
100

Memory

Memory Amount
8.0 GiB
8.0 GiB
8.0 GiB
16.0 GiB
3.9 GiB
8.0 GiB
4.0 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8192 MiB
8192 MiB
8192 MiB
24576 MiB
4000 MiB
8192 MiB
4096 MiB
Memory Generation
DDR5
-
-
-
-
-
-
Memory Speed
4800 Mhz
-
-
-
-
-
-
Memory ECC
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

GPU

GPU Count
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
GPU Memory Min
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

Storage

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

Network

Network Speed Baseline
781 Mbps
-
-
-
-
-
-
Network Speed Max
12.5 Gbps
-
-
-
-
-
-
Network Storage Speed Baseline
0.65 Gbps
-
-
-
-
-
-
Network Storage Speed Max
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
Outbound Traffic
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
20 TiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
2 TiB/mo
IPv4
0
0
0
0
0
0
1

Workload Profiles

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

Static Web Server

Redis

Further Benchmarks

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