Benchmark VM scores
This page shows how to get performance benchmarks for a VM machine series.
Important: If you need help benchmarking performance, or if you want to inquireabout available benchmark scores for a machine type, contact your Google Cloudaccount team.How Google creates these benchmarks
Performance benchmarks are created withPerfKitBenchmarkeron Compute Engine VMs. For optimal parallelization,the benchmarks are run while specifying a number of threads equal to the numberof vCPUs on each machine type. As a standard option in CoreMark, networksockets are used for parallelization. For each test of a VM,CoreMark runs five times and the first of those runs is dropped from theresults.
Use the following command to generate benchmarks:
./pkb --cloud=GCP \--benchmarks=coremark \--machine_type=n4-standard-2 \--gcp_min_cpu_platform=emeraldrapids \--os_type=ubuntu2204 \--run_stage_iterations=5 \--zone=us-east1-b
Edit the machine type, CPU, OS type, and zone as necessary.
What's next
- Learn aboutCompute Engine machine resource types.
- Learn aboutbenchmarking disk performance.
- Learn aboutbenchmarking network performance.
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Last updated 2026-02-18 UTC.