for the curious:

[centos@ip-10-250-75-75 11:34:24 ~]$ sysbench --test=cpu run
WARNING: the --test option is deprecated. You can pass a script name or path on the command line without any options.
sysbench 1.0.17 (using system LuaJIT 2.0.4)

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time


Prime numbers limit: 10000

Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

CPU speed:
events per second: 749.19

General statistics:
total time: 10.0007s
total number of events: 7496

Latency (ms):
min: 1.24
avg: 1.33
max: 9.34
95th percentile: 1.37
sum: 9952.88

Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 7496.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 9.9529/0.00