Vultr New CPU's?

eva2000

@Xei said:
Thanks so 2600Mhz is enough to confirm Skylake?

not entirely, probably need to look out for cpu family : 6 model : 85 and AVX512 cpu flag too

FredQc

Xei said: What's the smallest plan to carry it so far?

Why don't you try yourself ?

jlchandler

@Xei said:
Thanks so 2600Mhz is enough to confirm Skylake? What's the smallest plan to carry it so far?

For sure the $10 (2GB) plan. I haven’t tried anything smaller than that.

sin

I just started an instance in NJ and the performance is really good :-)

Gulf

@sin said:
I just started an instance in NJ and the performance is really good :-)

I think Chicago is the best location in the US. I've done a lot of tests (thanks to free credits). Chicago has the lowest average ping.

sin

@Gulf said:

@sin said:
I just started an instance in NJ and the performance is really good :-)

I think Chicago is the best location in the US. I've done a lot of tests (thanks to free credits). Chicago has the lowest average ping.

Thanks for that info! I've been wanting to try out their Chicago location, I've just always stuck with their NJ location because the uptime on my instances there have always been superb. I'm gonna spin up a Chicago one now though and see how it is.

-edit- I can't seem to get one of the new cpus in Chicago, so either they aren't there yet or I'm just unlucky so far

Gulf

I would rate them

For the US
1. Chicago
2. New Jersey
3. Los Angeles
4. Miami
5. San Jose

For Europe
1. New Jersey 2. Miami 3. Chicago

Chicago

New Jersey

Los Angeles

FredQc

Interestingly enough, I just deployed an $5 instance in NJ and got an 3.6Ghz CPU. I thought they where decommissioned or moved to the dedicated instances ?

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 60
model name      : Virtual CPU 714389bda930
stepping        : 1
microcode       : 0x1
cpu MHz         : 3599.996
cache size      : 16384 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm invpcid_single fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt arat
bogomips        : 7199.99
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/7127087

Not bad

Xei

@FredQc said:
Interestingly enough, I just deployed an $5 instance in NJ and got an 3.6Ghz CPU. I thought they where decommissioned or moved to the dedicated instances ?

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 60
model name      : Virtual CPU 714389bda930
stepping        : 1
microcode       : 0x1
cpu MHz         : 3599.996
cache size      : 16384 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm invpcid_single fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt arat
bogomips        : 7199.99
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/7127087

Not bad

I have these old ones. Aren't they inferior to the new Skylake?

FredQc

Xei said: Aren't they inferior to the new Skylake?

@eva2000 might shed a light on this

sin

FredQc said: Not bad

Nice! Here's the geekbench of one of their new cpu/instances ($10 one) I got in NJ: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/7081625

It's been performing really well, installed FreeBSD 11.1 on it and I'm moving some websites over to it.

Gulf

I'm using their Bare Metal servers for research purposes. SSD is a bit old (discontinued by Intel, that's why we get such 60% off offer and 100$ for free),

https://ark.intel.com/products/66250/Intel-SSD-520-Series-240GB-2_5in-SATA-6Gbs-25nm-MLC

CPU is good, handles huge load

MasonR

@Gulf said:
handles huge load

Woah there, let's keep this PG rated.

Also, I though I was looking at a alphawoot screenshot -

Gulf

@MasonR said:
Woah there, let's keep this PG rated.

Can't waste such offer on one-page site hosting. 200+ concurrent webkit instances should work.

Xei

@FredQc said:

Xei said: Aren't they inferior to the new Skylake?

@eva2000 might shed a light on this

Anyone good with CPU's know how the Skylake compare to the old 3.6 GHz instances?

eva2000

@FredQc said:

Xei said: Aren't they inferior to the new Skylake?

@eva2000 might shed a light on this

Depends on workload single vs multi-threaded as 3.6Ghz clock speed could be E3 12xx variants but clock speed will win over Skylake Xeon Scalable for single threaded loads as they're clocked lower most of them except some expensive high end Xeon Scalables which I doubt VPS/cloud providers would use due to cost and power usage. Also Xeon Scalable cpus have different Turbo boost frequencies for std, avx2 and avx512 work loads so depends on your web application usage. But if you need more than 8 cpu thread/cores, old 3.6Ghz won't be an option anyway.

But I wouldn't rely on Vultr 3.4-3.6+ Ghz on low end plans if you depend on spinning up instances and having dependable and consistent performance. The next one you spin up might not be 3.6Ghz based.

Xei

@eva2000 said:

@FredQc said:

Xei said: Aren't they inferior to the new Skylake?

@eva2000 might shed a light on this

Depends on workload single vs multi-threaded as 3.6Ghz clock speed could be E3 12xx variants but clock speed will win over Skylake Xeon Scalable for single threaded loads as they're clocked lower most of them except some expensive high end Xeon Scalables which I doubt VPS/cloud providers would use due to cost and power usage. Also Xeon Scalable cpus have different Turbo boost frequencies for std, avx2 and avx512 work loads so depends on your web application usage. But if you need more than 8 cpu thread/cores, old 3.6Ghz won't be an option anyway.

But I wouldn't rely on Vultr 3.4-3.6+ Ghz on low end plans if you depend on spinning up instances and having dependable and consistent performance. The next one you spin up might not be 3.6Ghz based.

Thanks eva2000. I plan on testing two over a long period (perhaps over months) at some point side by side to get an idea of how they perform relative to one another.

JoeMerit

The VULTR Nextgen's they released like 2 years ago are still the best

cpu MHz : 3499.996
and NVMe storage