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Benchmarks 2018-08-18:
 
$ stress-ng --cpu 1 --cpu-method matrixprod --metrics-brief -t 60 stress-ng: info: [1932] dispatching hogs: 1 cpu stress-ng: info: [1932] cache allocate: using built-in defaults as unable to determine cache details stress-ng: info: [1932] cache allocate: default cache size: 2048K stress-ng: info: [1932] successful run completed in 60.23s (1 min, 0.23 secs) stress-ng: info: [1932] stressor bogo ops real time usr time sys time bogo ops/s bogo ops/s stress-ng: info: [1932] (secs) (secs) (secs) (real time) (usr+sys time) stress-ng: info: [1932] cpu 258 60.22 60.22 0.00 4.28 4.28 $ stress-ng --cpu 6 --cpu-method matrixprod --metrics-brief -t 60 stress-ng: info: [1935] dispatching hogs: 6 cpu stress-ng: info: [1935] cache allocate: using built-in defaults as unable to determine cache details stress-ng: info: [1935] cache allocate: default cache size: 2048K stress-ng: info: [1935] successful run completed in 60.14s (1 min, 0.14 secs) stress-ng: info: [1935] stressor bogo ops real time usr time sys time bogo ops/s bogo ops/s stress-ng: info: [1935] (secs) (secs) (secs) (real time) (usr+sys time) stress-ng: info: [1935] cpu 882 60.10 359.17 0.02 14.68 2.46 $ sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=1 --max-time=60 run sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 1 Doing CPU performance benchmark Threads started! Done. Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 20000 Test execution summary: total time: 14.2567s total number of events: 10000 total time taken by event execution: 14.2539 per-request statistics: min: 1.42ms avg: 1.43ms max: 6.39ms approx. 95 percentile: 1.42ms Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 10000.0000/0.00 execution time (avg/stddev): 14.2539/0.00 $ sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=6 --max-time=60 run sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 6 Doing CPU performance benchmark Threads started! Done. Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 20000 Test execution summary: total time: 3.5062s total number of events: 10000 total time taken by event execution: 20.9935 per-request statistics: min: 1.42ms avg: 2.10ms max: 19.40ms approx. 95 percentile: 2.62ms Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 1666.6667/498.81 execution time (avg/stddev): 3.4989/0.00  

@NicoD still these rely on RAM speed, compression.
 
I would go for Phoronix Test Suite and stress-ng.
 
Thanks.