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Updated on 2025-09-18 GMT+08:00

Why Does the Basic Frequency Become Lower After I Enable Performance Mode for a FlexusX Instance?

FlexusX provides flexible compute resources with QoS-guaranteed performance. FlexusX instances perform as well as exclusive instances most of the time but may occasionally underperform. To meet the strict performance requirements of certain workloads, such as rendering and HPC applications, FlexusX provides a performance mode option. If this option is enabled, your FlexusX instances are bound with the underlying CPU cores, so they can provide stable, ultimate QoS-guaranteed performance.

Enabling performance mode guarantees the performance but does not improve the performance. The advantage of the performance mode lies in stable performance guarantee. It can ensure 100% CPU compute for 100% of the time, rather than outperforming non-performance mode in burst performance. FlexusX instances with performance mode enabled do not provide higher basic/turbo frequency than those without performance mode enabled.