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Dirk Leser

I performed the same sysbench and redis benchmarks on

  • e2-standard-4
  • n1-standard-4

in the GCP region/zones europe-west-1d and europe-west-1b (Belgium).

I couldn't see any significant difference between the E2 and N1 machine types in any of the benchmarks.

Here are some results from the sysbench-cpu benchmark (total time in seconds):

sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=50000 --num-threads=4 run | grep "total time:"
e2-standard-4: 27.3814 ; 29.0544; 28.9985; 27.3325; 29.2564; 27.2810; 29.1408
n1-standard-4: 27.7668 ; 27.6391; 27.3915; 27.3113; 27.3933; 27.6044; 27.3655

The few CPU benchmark tests are showing some slightly better values for N1.

Please be aware that you might get other results. I tested only on two days in one region.