I use a lot of virtual machines from a number of providers. They usually list them as 1 vCPU which doesn’t give much indication of how much processing power that single core is giving you. There are lots of fully-featured benchmarking utilities that you could install to get a very details insight of how your CPU performs. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Instead, I use the following dead simple single core benchmark. It times how long the system takes to sha312sum 10GB of zeros:
