Evolution of AWS EC2 General-Purpose: A 13-Year Performance and Price Analysis - Geekbench 6
Go back to listGeekbench 6 is a standard benchmark suite aiming to create a score from different system performance. From its outputs, we capture:
- Single score: CPU performance
- Multi score: Whole system performance
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Observations:
- The top Geekbench 6 performance is reached by the Intel m7