Introduction
Composite Performance Metric (CPM) is a relative performance estimate for public cloud SKUs and on-premises servers. CPM enables side-by-side performance comparisons between public cloud SKUs and on-premises servers by combining performance data from multiple benchmark sources.
CPM's server and cloud performance estimate methodology enables objective, head-to-head comparisons across server vendors' products and public cloud vendors' services.
Workload Categories
CPM Standard
Assesses system performance for general purpose workloads.
CPM Database
Assesses system performance for database and transaction processing workloads.
CPM SAP
Assesses system performance for SAP workloads.
CPM AI
Assesses system performance for AI workloads.
Benchmarks Utilized
- SPECrate2017_int
- SPECrate2017_fp
- SPECjbb2015
- TPC-C
- SAPS
Comprehensive Configurations
CPM data covers all processor and server configuration options for x86, IA-64, and RISC servers dating back to 2010. Cloud CPM data covers all SKUs and configuration options for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and IBM Power Systems Virtual Server.
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