The CPU performance of your VMs?

[Lanz]

Hi,

I've used Hyper Pi as a basic CPU test for years now, just to see how much raw CPU performance increase I get with each new esxi cluster compared to the previous gen.

At the moment, our newest clusters are using E5-2680 v3 @ 2.5ghz
The test takes 12 seconds to complete (1M, Normal, 1 Processor)
This is pretty much identical to the last gen from 4 years ago (original E5-2680 @ 2.7Ghz)

We still have a really old cluster that runs AMD 6136, and they are dreadful and it takes 33 seconds to complete.

I'd be interested to see some more results from others?

 

[Lanz]

Azure is interesting, what sort of price difference is there from that 20 sec VM to a 12 sec one you think?

I would say anything under 20 is fine for 90% of workloads.

 

[Lanz]

I wouldn't say meaningless, activities that require encryption or compression run really slow on our AMD hosts - Large file backups takes 3 times as long, compared to Xeon when client-side compression is enabled, also our dev's are always complaining the java app performance on AMD. Be good to finally retire them off.