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## Introduction

[netcup GmbH](https://www.netcup.eu) sells interesting ARM servers. I bought the [VPS 8000 ARM G11](https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/arm-server) version recently. It has 18 vCore (ARM64), offical website said it's based on Ampere Altra Max CPUs.

|Products|VPS 8000 ARM G11|
|---|---|
|Virtualisation technology|KVM|
|Processor|18 vCore (ARM64)|
|RAM|64GB DDR4 ECC|
|Storage space|2048 GB SSD|
|Network card|2500 Mbit/s|
|Traffic|inclusive|

## General Testing

Testing script from [Teddysun](https://teddysun.com/444.html) provides an idea of over all performance

```bash
wget -qO- bench.sh | bash
```

The result is here:

```text
-------------------- A Bench.sh Script By Teddysun -------------------
 Version            : v2023-10-15
 Usage              : wget -qO- bench.sh | bash
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Model          : CPU model not detected
 CPU Cores          : 18
 AES-NI             : ✓ Enabled
 VM-x/AMD-V         : ✗ Disabled
 Total Disk         : 2.0 TB (20.7 GB Used)
 Total Mem          : 62.7 GB (3.1 GB Used)
 System uptime      : 1 days, 14 hour 48 min
 Load average       : 0.25, 0.14, 0.10
 OS                 : Debian GNU/Linux 12
 Arch               : aarch64 (64 Bit)
 Kernel             : 6.6.8
 TCP CC             : bbr
 Virtualization     : KVM
 IPv4/IPv6          : ✓ Online / ✓ Online
 Organization       : AS197540 netcup GmbH
 Location           : Nürnberg / DE
 Region             : Bavaria
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 I/O Speed(1st run) : 470 MB/s
 I/O Speed(2nd run) : 673 MB/s
 I/O Speed(3rd run) : 676 MB/s
 I/O Speed(average) : 606.3 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Node Name        Upload Speed      Download Speed      Latency     
 Speedtest.net    174.35 Mbps       147.69 Mbps         0.29 ms     
 Los Angeles, US  626.82 Mbps       1950.34 Mbps        147.10 ms   
 Dallas, US       697.90 Mbps       2109.19 Mbps        133.37 ms   
 Montreal, CA     554.36 Mbps       904.78 Mbps         94.53 ms    
 Paris, FR        2108.91 Mbps      2321.03 Mbps        21.98 ms    
 Shanghai, CN     640.20 Mbps       1484.39 Mbps        255.22 ms   
 Hongkong, CN     5.00 Mbps         0.55 Mbps           301.56 ms   
 Mumbai, IN       1685.98 Mbps      2417.37 Mbps        116.27 ms   
 Singapore, SG    1592.12 Mbps      2572.71 Mbps        179.95 ms   
 Tokyo, JP        423.71 Mbps       1122.09 Mbps        217.83 ms   
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Finished in        : 5 min 15 sec
 Timestamp          : 2023-12-30 03:55:03 CET
----------------------------------------------------------------------
```

## Yet-Another-Bench-Script

```bash
curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
```

The result is very detailed and long, I split the result into parts. First, let's check the script information:

```text
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-11-30                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Sat Dec 30 04:16:48 AM CET 2023

ARM compatibility is considered *experimental*
```

Then, the basic OS information:

```text
Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 1 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes
Processor  : Neoverse-N1
BIOS virt-5.2  CPU @ 2.0GHz
CPU cores  : 18 @ ??? MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 62.7 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 2.0 TiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.6.8
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : netcup GmbH
ASN        : AS197540 netcup GmbH
Host       : NETCUP-GMBH
Location   : Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg (BW)
Country    : Germany
```

Then, the Disk IO Test:

```text
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda4):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 138.63 MB/s  (34.6k) | 261.70 MB/s   (4.0k)
Write      | 138.54 MB/s  (34.6k) | 269.48 MB/s   (4.2k)
Total      | 277.18 MB/s  (69.2k) | 531.19 MB/s   (8.2k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 298.21 MB/s    (582) | 442.51 MB/s    (432)
Write      | 323.72 MB/s    (632) | 493.71 MB/s    (482)
Total      | 621.93 MB/s   (1.2k) | 936.22 MB/s    (914)
```

Then, the Network Speed Test:

```text
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 2.45 Gbits/sec  | 2.37 Gbits/sec  | 20.5 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 2.46 Gbits/sec  | busy            | 20.1 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 2.47 Gbits/sec  | 2.38 Gbits/sec  | 9.96 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 1.99 Gbits/sec  | 996 Mbits/sec   | 84.2 ms        
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 2.00 Gbits/sec  | 542 Mbits/sec   | 91.6 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 1.44 Gbits/sec  | 648 Mbits/sec   | 128 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.16 Gbits/sec  | 1.04 Gbits/sec  | 147 ms         

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 2.44 Gbits/sec  | 2.33 Gbits/sec  | 20.5 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | busy            | busy            | 32.2 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 2.48 Gbits/sec  | 2.35 Gbits/sec  | 9.97 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 2.10 Gbits/sec  | 875 Mbits/sec   | 84.4 ms        
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.78 Gbits/sec  | 893 Mbits/sec   | 91.6 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 1.39 Gbits/sec  | 852 Mbits/sec   | 128 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.16 Gbits/sec  | 549 Mbits/sec   | 147 ms
```

Then, Geekbench 6 Result:

```text
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1072                          
Multi Core      | 8650                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/4192622
```

Finally, I tested Geekbench 5 only, with following script:

```bash
curl -sL yabs.sh | bash -s -- -i -f  -n -5
```

Here is Geekbench 6 Result:

```text
Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 798                           
Multi Core      | 10975                         
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/22091599
```

## Review

Now, let's discuss the result.

### CPU Performance

VPS 8000 ARM G11's Geekbench 6 Multi-Core Score is around 8650, to help you get an idea od its level, I choiced some well known CPUs for comparing.

|CPU|Single-Core|Multi-Core Score|
|---|---|---|
|Intel Core i9-13900K|2970|20095|
|AMD Ryzen 9 7950X|2930|19224|
|Intel Core i9-12900K|2610|15428|
|AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS|2481|11741|
|AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D|2085|10922|
|AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme|2252|9689|
|AMD Ryzen 7 7840U|2099|8718|
|Intel Core i9-9900K|1664|7977|

My **Framework Laptop 13** with **AMD Ryzen 7 7840U** has a score of

|CPU|Single-Core|Multi-Core Score|
|---|---|---|
|AMD Ryzen 7 7840U|2256|12127|

This difference is because modern CPUs have dynamic booster mechanism, it can run above the base clock.

One more thing, I though a few records of Ampere [Altra Max 2800 MHz (96 cores)](https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1590435) on the Geekbench 6 website. The Single-Core Score is 958 and Multi-Core Score is 11149. 

This is odd, my 18 vCore server has a Multi-Core Score of 8650, the Altra Max 2800 MHz (96 cores) got only 11149. I guess the [Altra Max 2800 MHz (96 cores)](https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1590435) records on the Geekbench 6 website is under performanced, since it's ADLINK Ampere Altra Developer Platform. It may be not tuned to optimized perfermance.