Benchmark VM scores

This page shows how to get performance benchmarks for a VM machine series.

Important: If you need help benchmarking performance, or if you want to inquire about available benchmark scores for a machine type, contact your Google Cloud account team.

How Google creates these benchmarks

Performance benchmarks are created with PerfKitBenchmarker on Compute Engine VMs. For optimal parallelization, the benchmarks are run while specifying a number of threads equal to the number of vCPUs on each machine type. As a standard option in CoreMark, network sockets are used for parallelization. For each test of a VM, CoreMark runs five times and the first of those runs is dropped from the results.

Use the following command to generate benchmarks:

./pkb --cloud=GCP \
--benchmarks=coremark \
--machine_type=n4-standard-2 \
--gcp_min_cpu_platform=emeraldrapids \
--os_type=ubuntu2204 \
--run_stage_iterations=5 \
--zone=us-east1-b

Edit the machine type, CPU, OS type, and zone as necessary.

What's next

• Learn about Compute Engine machine resource types.
• Learn about benchmarking disk performance.
• Learn about benchmarking network performance.