IBM Cloud - cx2-2x4 Yab
March 17th 2023

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This is the yab (yabs.sh results) for tests that were run on a IBM Cloud server on March 17th 2023.

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This Yab was run as part of VPSBenchmarks performance trial. Review this server grades, HTTP, Sysbench test results and performance stability over time on the IBM Cloud - cx2-2x4 trial page.

Trial performance score: 37 / 100

Server

Provider IBM Cloud
VPS Plan cx2-2x4
OS Version Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Data Center Location Toronto, Ontario (ON)

Specs

Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
CPU cores 2 @ 2494.078 MHz
RAM 3.8 GiB
Disk 96.8 GiB
Swap 0.0 B
Kernel 5.15.0-1025-ibm
AES-NI ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V ✔ Enabled
VM Type KVM

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Raw Yabs.sh Output

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Thu Mar 16 05:02:17 PM PDT 2023

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 20 minutes
Processor  : Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2494.078 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 3.8 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 96.8 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Kernel     : 5.15.0-1025-ibm
VM Type    : KVM

Basic Network Information:
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Protocol   : IPv4
ISP        : SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
ASN        : AS36351 SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
Host       : EDF NET05g
Location   : Toronto, Ontario (ON)
Country    : Canada

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 6.19 MB/s     (1.5k) | 24.52 MB/s     (383)
Write      | 6.19 MB/s     (1.5k) | 25.01 MB/s     (390)
Total      | 12.38 MB/s    (3.0k) | 49.53 MB/s     (773)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 23.54 MB/s      (45) | 22.99 MB/s      (22)
Write      | 24.83 MB/s      (48) | 25.40 MB/s      (24)
Total      | 48.37 MB/s      (93) | 48.39 MB/s      (46)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 2.00 Gbits/sec  | 2.21 Gbits/sec  | 82.2 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 2.20 Gbits/sec  | 1.86 Gbits/sec  | 95.9 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 1.97 Gbits/sec  | busy            | 90.2 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 1.26 Gbits/sec  | 1.01 Gbits/sec  | 176 ms         
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | busy            | busy            | 15.6 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 2.44 Gbits/sec  | 3.20 Gbits/sec  | 33.1 ms        
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.93 Gbits/sec  | 2.37 Gbits/sec  | 74.1 ms        

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 963                           
Multi Core      | 1156                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/20886546

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1248                          
Multi Core      | 1481                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/571748

YABS completed in 15 min 58 sec

Results Summary

The scale in the charts between 0 and 100 represents the performance of this server for each metric relative to the performance of all other servers tested recently at VPSBenchmarks for that same metric.

  • 100 means the server is the fastest for this metric.
  • 50 means the server has exactly median performance for this metric.
  • 0 means the server is the slowest for this metric.
Single Core Geekbench 5 Score
963
Multi Core Geekbench 5 Score
Fio Disk IO Read Speed 64k blocks
23 MiB/s
Fio Disk IO Write Speed 64k blocks
24 MiB/s
Iperf3 Download Speed
3277 Mbps
Iperf3 Upload Speed
2499 Mbps

Geekbench 5

Geekbench measures your processor's single-core and multi-core power.

Full Test https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/20886546
Multi Core 1156
Single Core 963

Geekbench 6

Geekbench measures your processor's single-core and multi-core power.

Full Test https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/571748
Multi Core 1481
Single Core 1248

Fio

This Fio test evaluates disk performance in 4 random read and write runs with different block sizes, 50% reads and 50% writes.

All fio tests below run in asynchronous direct mode using libaio and use 2 execution threads regardless of the size of the server.

4k64k512k1m
Read6.2 MB/s
1.5k IOPS
24.5 MB/s
383 IOPS
23.5 MB/s
45 IOPS
23.0 MB/s
22 IOPS
Write6.2 MB/s
1.5k IOPS
25.0 MB/s
390 IOPS
24.8 MB/s
48 IOPS
25.4 MB/s
24 IOPS
Total12.4 MB/s
3k IOPS
49.5 MB/s
773 IOPS
48.4 MB/s
93 IOPS
48.4 MB/s
46 IOPS

Iperf3 ipv4

Iperf3 tests download and upload speeds to various locations using 8 parallel threads.

Download Upload
Scaleway
Paris, FR (10G)
1905 Mbits/sec 2253 Mbits/sec
Clouvider
London, UK (10G)
2263 Mbits/sec 2048 Mbits/sec
Clouvider
NYC, NY, US (10G)
busy busy
Uztelecom
Tashkent, UZ (10G)
1034 Mbits/sec 1290 Mbits/sec
Clouvider
Dallas, TX, US (10G)
3277 Mbits/sec 2499 Mbits/sec
NovoServe
North Holland, NL (40G)
busy 2017 Mbits/sec
Clouvider
Los Angeles, CA, US (10G)
2427 Mbits/sec 1976 Mbits/sec

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