Best multi-core performance servers with 8 vCPUs

This is a manually curated list of 8 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.2xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, and c6a.2xlarge showing only m6a.2xlarge with 32 GiB of memory; similarly GCP's c2d-highmem-8, c2d-standard-8, and c2d-highcpu-8 showing only c2d-standard-8 with 32 GiB of memory).
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$Core
205,053/USD
Best (ondemand):53,021/USD
Best (spot):205,053/USD
436,340/USD
Best (ondemand):96,421/USD
Best (spot):436,340/USD
400,249/USD
Best (ondemand):89,569/USD
Best (spot):400,249/USD
183,125/USD
Best (ondemand):33,845/USD
Best (spot):183,125/USD
324,667/USD
Best (ondemand):59,969/USD
Best (spot):324,667/USD
134,252/USD
Best (ondemand):46,988/USD
Best (spot):134,252/USD
378,427/USD
Best (ondemand):378,427/USD
Best (spot):-
28,512/USD
Best (ondemand):28,512/USD
Best (spot):-
SCore All
24586
21512
16570
15163
14513
14472
14456
6275
SCore Single
3073
2688
2075
1898
1822
1813
1740
788
Best spot price
0.1199 USD
eu-south-2a
0.0493 USD
europe-west8-a
0.0414 USD
centralindia-1
0.0828 USD
italynorth-1
0.0447 USD
centralindia-1
0.1078 USD
asia-southeast1-b
-
-
-
-
Best ondemand price
0.4637 USD
us-east-1d
0.2231 USD
asia-south1-b
0.185 USD
centralindia-1
0.448 USD
italynorth-1
0.242 USD
centralindia-1
0.308 USD
us-central1-a
0.0382 USD
nbg1-dc3
0.2201 USD
Sydney #1

Metadata

Family
m7a
t2d
Dpsv6
DCSv3
DPDSv5
t2a
cax
Cloud Native
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
-
17
19
16
-
14
-
-
Status
active
active
active
active
active
active
active
active

CPU

vCPUs
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
Hypervisor
nitro
-
Microsoft Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V
-
QEMU
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
Dedicated
Dedicated
Dedicated
Dedicated
Dedicated
Shared
Shared
CPU Cores
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
CPU Speed
3.7 GHz
-
3.4 GHz
2.8 GHz
3 GHz
3 GHz
2 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
Ampere
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
EPYC
ARM
Xeon
ARMv8
ARMv8
Ampere Altra
EPYC
CPU Model
9R14
7B13
Neoverse-N2
8370C
Neoverse-N1
Neoverse-N1
Neoverse-N1
7542
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
32 KiB
64 KiB
48 KiB
64 KiB
64 KiB
-
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
256 KiB
512 KiB
384 KiB
512 KiB
512 KiB
-
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
32 KiB
64 KiB
32 KiB
64 KiB
64 KiB
0 KiB
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
256 KiB
512 KiB
256 KiB
512 KiB
512 KiB
0 KiB
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
512 KiB
1 MiB
1.25 MiB
1 MiB
1 MiB
0 KiB
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8192 KiB
4096 KiB
8192 KiB
10240 KiB
8192 KiB
8192 KiB
0 KiB
4096 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
32 MiB
128 MiB
48 MiB
32 MiB
32 MiB
-
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32768 KiB
32768 KiB
131072 KiB
49152 KiB
32768 KiB
32768 KiB
-
16384 KiB
Ecpus
8
8
8
8
8
8
8.3
8
Scalability
100
100
100
100
100
100
103.75
100

Memory

Memory Amount
32.0 GiB
32.0 GiB
32.0 GiB
64.0 GiB
32.0 GiB
32.0 GiB
15.6 GiB
32.0 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32768 MiB
32768 MiB
32768 MiB
98304 MiB
32768 MiB
32768 MiB
16000 MiB
32768 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
307 GB
0 GB
160 GB
0 GB
Storage Type
-
-
-
-
-
-
nvme ssd
-

Network

Network Speed Baseline
3.13 Gbps
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Network Speed Max
12.5 Gbps
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Network Storage Speed Baseline
2.5 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
0 GiB/mo
Outbound Traffic
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
0 GiB/mo
20 TiB/mo
9 TiB/mo
IPv4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1

Workload Profiles

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench

PassMark (CPU)

String Sorting
26.91K
24.97K
41.14K
24.99K
26.80K
27.14K
26.82K
22.50K
Single Threaded
2.73K
2.38K
1.88K
2.44K
1.33K
1.32K
1.32K
2.18K
Prime Numbers
136.48
129.77
109.93
135.29
46.94
67.65
59.35
117.84
Physics
1.92K
2.10K
2.61K
2.06K
912.38
1.18K
1.09K
1.47K
Mark
18.34K
16.77K
7.79K
17.07K
6.13K
6.21K
6.19K
15.38K
Integer Maths
45.11K
41.56K
50.44K
42.10K
37.69K
37.66K
37.76K
38.32K
Floating Point Maths
39.42K
33.59K
42.28K
34.68K
28.70K
28.59K
28.68K
27.80K
Extended Instructions
17.46K
15.56K
7.16K
15.23K
5.96K
5.95K
5.96K
14.16K
Encryption
9.62K
8.97K
1.50K
9.38K
1.30K
1.30K
1.31K
9.34K
Compression
190.49K
176.41K
54.88K
180.86K
44.87K
44.62K
44.65K
169.23K

PassMark (Memory)

Memory Write
18.79K
16.81K
25.75K
10.76K
14.95K
14.64K
13.58K
7.62K
Memory Read Uncached
25.37K
16.56K
18.89K
11.79K
7.85K
8.38K
8.50K
7.41K
Memory Read Cached
26.21K
24.27K
25.64K
24.49K
11.24K
11.26K
11.30K
25.28K
Memory Mark
2.11K
2.58K
3.12K
2.54K
1.74K
1.82K
1.64K
1.30K
Memory Latency
95.13
65.11
53.32
58.33
76.22
70.85
79.35
153.43
Database Operations
6.74K
6.86K
9.91K
7.75K
5.22K
5.61K
5.42K
4.46K

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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