Bare-Metal Performance Benchmarks Explained

Benchmarks are the language of bare-metal performance, but they are easy to misread if you do not know what each metric actually measures. The numbers only matter when they map to your workload.

CPU, memory, storage, and network benchmarks each answer a different question, and no single score captures the whole picture. Matching the benchmark to your bottleneck is the whole game.

• CPU benchmarks measure compute throughput and latency
• IOPS and throughput measure storage performance
• Network benchmarks test bandwidth and packet rate
• Synthetic scores rarely match real application behavior