Vultr now offering Skylake for $10+ plans

realbusiness

$10 plans or above now get the Skylake CPU.

As usual, no/low availability in London, so we don't get the benefit.

sin

Haven't they been offering that for the past few months already? I believe those are the new cores they have been using in their US locations like NJ, Chicago, Atlanta, etc.

vovler

Would be interesting to benchmark them against DO and Linode

FredQc

Maybe the cpu guru @eva2000 got more informations on this ?

FredQc

Well, they don't lies about their benchmarks:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/8588174

Still not equivalent to those 3.6Ghz cores thought

I guess that once the node is filled at capacites, those numbers will drops as usual.

Compiling PHP 7.2.5 with 2 cores...

Vultr:

Model name:            Virtual CPU 82d9ed4018dd
CPU MHz:               2593.904
Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx pdpe1gb 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 fsgsbase bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm avx512f avx512dq clwb avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt arat

Build complete.
Don't forget to run 'make test'.

    real    3m3.483s
    user    5m20.387s
    sys     0m29.907s

DO:

Model name:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
CPU MHz:               2399.998
Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl cpuid pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch invpcid_single pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt

Build complete.
Don't forget to run 'make test'.

    real    4m40.943s
    user    8m7.428s
    sys     0m34.321s

eva2000

FredQc said: Maybe the cpu guru @eva2000 got more informations on this ?

haven't tried myself but one of my Centmin Mod users posted Vultr 4 cpu Skylake benchmarks at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/vultr-benchmarks-with-new-2-6-ghz-cpus.14905/ definitely one of the faster Skylake Xeon offerings due to clock speed.

corbpie

Meanwhile at Digital Ocean

Hxxx

Developers don't care for shit like this. Just scale, vertical , horizontal, 2-3 clicks done.

@corbpie said:
Meanwhile at Digital Ocean

FredQc

corbpie said: Meanwhile at Digital Ocean

Well in their favour they offer bigger disks space and they got faster SSD arrays compared to vultr. CPU wise, yeah that's not their strenght...

Zerpy

@FredQc said:
they got faster SSD arrays compared to vultr.

Isn't the faster SSD arrays only used for benchmarking? In real world workloads, the vultr speeds are often more than enough.