diff --git a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
index 64d90676895..00b76d84465 100644
--- a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
+++ b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@
                 export USE_KUBEMARK="true"
                 export KUBEMARK_TESTS="\[Feature:Performance\]"
                 # Override defaults to be independent from GCE defaults and set kubemark parameters
-                export NUM_NODES="10"
+                export NUM_NODES="3"
                 export MASTER_SIZE="n1-standard-2"
-                export NODE_SIZE="n1-standard-1"
+                export NODE_SIZE="n1-standard-4"
                 export KUBE_GCE_ZONE="us-central1-b"
                 export KUBEMARK_MASTER_SIZE="n1-standard-4"
                 export KUBEMARK_NUM_NODES="100"