I use a lot of virtual machines from a number of providers. They usually list them as 1 vCPU which doesn’t give much indication of how much processing power that single core is giving you.
There are lots of fully-featured benchmarking utilities that you could install to get a very details insight of how your CPU performs.
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Instead, I use the following dead simple single core benchmark. It times how long the system takes to sha312sum 10GB of zeros:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1MB count=10240 | sha512sum
On my local laptop this gives the result:
10240000000 bytes (10 GB, 9.5 GiB) copied, 17.7661 s, 576 MB/s
Whilst on the VM that’s running this website gives:
10240000000 bytes (10 GB, 9.5 GiB) copied, 48.3234 s, 212 MB/s
You can either look at the time or the throughput as your benchmar number as they are both related.
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