CoreMark scores of VMs by family

This page shows the CoreMark scores of VMs by machine series. For machine series that run on more than one CPU platform, the coremark scores for the most commonly used CPU platform are shown.

Fourth generation machine series

N4 standard VMs

N4 highcpu VMs

N4 highmem VMs

Third generation machine series

C3D standard VMs

C3D highcpu VMs

C3D highmem VMs

C3 standard VMs

C3 highcpu VMs

C3 highmem VMs

H3 standard VMs

M3 VMs

Z3 highmem VMs

Second generation machine series

N2 standard VMs

N2 high-memory VMs

N2 high-cpu VMs

Tau T2A standard VMs

Tau T2D standard VMs

N2D standard VMs

N2D high-memory VMs

N2D high-cpu VMs

E2 standard VMs

E2 high-memory VMs

E2 high-cpu VMs

M2 VMs

M1 VMs

C2 standard VMs

C2D standard VMs

C2D high-mem VMs

C2D high-cpu VMs

A2 high-gpu instances

A2 mega-gpu instances

G2 standard instances

First generation machine series

N1 standard VMs

N1 high-memory VMs

N1 high-cpu VMs

N1 shared-core VMs

How Google creates these benchmarks

Performance benchmarks are created with PerfKitBenchmarker on Compute Engine VMs. For optimal parallelization, the benchmarks are run 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.

These benchmarks are run on Ubuntu images. Public images are updated regularly and can result in some changes over time.

You can reproduce these runs using the following command:

./pkb --cloud=GCP \
--benchmarks=coremark \
--machine_type=n1-standard-2 \
--gcp_min_cpu_platform=cascadelake \
--os_type=ubuntu2204 \
--run_stage_iterations=5 \
--zone=us-east1-b

You can change the machine type and zone as necessary.

What's next

• Learn about benchmarking disk performance.
• Learn about benchmarking network performance.