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DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8 vCPU / 16 GB

New York 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 10, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
972
Geekbench 7 multi-core
4,207
Disk 4K IOPS
91,971
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$168.00
25 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    CPU-Optimized 8 vCPU / 16 GB
  • Location
    New York 1
  • vCPU
    8
  • RAM
    16 GB
  • Storage
    100 GB SSD
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 10, 2026, 11:54:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 972 4,207 Geekbench Browser

Scores from different Geekbench versions aren't comparable with each other. Charts only use Geekbench 7.

Geekbench 7 workloads

Workload Single-core Multi-core
File Compression
1,020
55th of 70
3,177
21st of 62
Navigation
1,203
49th of 70
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
985
52nd of 70
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,088
51st of 70
Single-core only
Photo Library
981
45th of 70
4,504
15th of 62
Clang
1,052
50th of 70
5,256
16th of 62
Text Processing
1,024
46th of 70
3,978
21st of 62
Asset Compression
812
63rd of 70
4,371
24th of 62
HDR
873
54th of 70
3,312
20th of 62
Photo Editor
945
55th of 70
4,392
17th of 62
Ray Tracer
871
61st of 70
5,160
19th of 62
Structure from Motion
1,102
54th of 70
Single-core only
Game Physics
907
60th of 70
Single-core only
Video Encoder
893
57th of 70
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
960
59th of 70
Single-core only
Video Player
910
57th of 70
Single-core only

Rank among the 70 runs with Geekbench 7 workload scores. Bars are relative to the best run. Geekbench doesn't run every workload multi-core, so some rows only have a single-core score.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 41.9 GB/s 3 0.188%
Scale higher is better 48 GB/s 3 1.41%
Add higher is better 48.7 GB/s 3 1.2%
Triad higher is better 48.9 GB/s 3 0.916%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 984/s 3 0.031%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 64,556/s 3 0.407%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.1 GB/s 3 0.163%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 14.4 GB/s 3 0.0372%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 9.38 GB/s 3 0.0532%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 7.43 ms 3 0%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 1,066/s 3 0%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 13 ms 3 1.36%
Requests per second, average higher is better 1,063/s 3 0.0283%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 179.4 MB/s (45,925 IOPS) 179.9 MB/s (46,046 IOPS) 359.3 MB/s (91,971 IOPS)
64K 1.1 GB/s (17,957 IOPS) 1.1 GB/s (18,051 IOPS) 2.2 GB/s (36,008 IOPS)
512K 1.31 GB/s (2,677 IOPS) 1.38 GB/s (2,820 IOPS) 2.68 GB/s (5,497 IOPS)
1M 844.8 MB/s (844 IOPS) 901.1 MB/s (901 IOPS) 1.71 GB/s (1,745 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 1.88 Gbps 1.76 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.14 Gbps 1.79 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 746 Mbps 824 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.89 Gbps 1.76 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.01 Gbps 1.89 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 9,684 0.103 ms
fdatasync 9,832 0.102 ms
fsync 6,956 0.144 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 7,419 0.135 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 5,071 0.197 ms
fdatasync 7,833 0.128 ms
fsync 7,300 0.137 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,320 0.232 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 7,084 0.141 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 4,400 0.227 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 2,317 0.432 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 1,059 0.945 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 541 1.85 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 7,147 0.14 ms
write, close, fsync 7,399 0.135 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,160,764 0.001 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 2,478 0.381 ms 0.496 ms 0.577 ms 2.29 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 8,959 0.795 ms 1.46 ms 2.07 ms 4.97 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 9,806 2.43 ms 7.8 ms 13.6 ms 46.9 ms 0
Read only 1 28,014 0.032 ms 0.049 ms 0.061 ms 0.096 ms 0
Read only 8 154,793 0.047 ms 0.069 ms 0.095 ms 0.149 ms 0
Read only 32 129,271 0.23 ms 0.368 ms 0.448 ms 0.602 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.77 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 2,009 0.444 ms 0.591 ms 0.942 ms 10 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 7,907 0.856 ms 1.34 ms 5.84 ms 17.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 12,306 2.32 ms 4.18 ms 9.42 ms 19.1 ms 0
Read only 1 20,850 0.044 ms 0.068 ms 0.086 ms 0.122 ms 0
Read only 8 116,723 0.063 ms 0.096 ms 0.149 ms 0.232 ms 0
Read only 32 99,841 0.302 ms 0.478 ms 0.582 ms 1.25 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 25.3 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 370 7,402 2.39 ms 3.3 ms 11.7 ms 0
Read/write 8 1,478 29,569 4.82 ms 8.43 ms 19.3 ms 0
Read/write 32 2,270 45,402 13.2 ms 23.9 ms 32.5 ms 0
Read only 1 928 14,851 1.03 ms 1.47 ms 1.64 ms 0
Read only 8 4,107 65,713 1.7 ms 3.13 ms 3.75 ms 0
Read only 32 4,175 66,797 7.7 ms 11.4 ms 13 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 6.8 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 94,955 86,322 0.599 ms 1.19 ms 1.91 ms
1:1 set:get 89,594 44,797 0.623 ms 1.25 ms 1.99 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 4 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
Next.js nextjs 1,228 4,527 6,687 345 ms
Express express-postgresjs 18,237 23,409 71,887 29.2 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 17,811 25,364 84,586 27.5 ms
NestJS nestjs 9,710 11,407 37,852 64.8 ms
Nuxt nuxt 15,057 21,702 60,914 46.4 ms
FastAPI fastapi 8,479 10,851 37,960 142 ms
Django django-postgresql 3,220 3,678 8,100 159 ms
Rails rails 4,961 7,035 29,061 80.6 ms
Laravel laravel 1,906 1,996 3,650 147 ms
Symfony symfony 2,449 2,689 7,151 118 ms

Peak requests per second across the 64 and 256 connection levels, measured with wrk. Each test has to pass the TechEmpower response checks first, or it's marked invalid.

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 5.05 308 ms 339 ms 360 ms 0%
Shop page 5.05 414 ms 446 ms 461 ms 0%
Category page 5.05 264 ms 409 ms 432 ms 0%
Product page 5.05 290 ms 326 ms 342 ms 0%
Product search 5.05 253 ms 293 ms 312 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 4.87 1.34 s 1.57 s 1.69 s 0%
Shop page 4.87 1.81 s 2.12 s 2.23 s 0%
Category page 4.87 1.15 s 1.96 s 2.11 s 0%
Product page 4.87 1.2 s 1.52 s 1.6 s 0%
Product search 4.87 1.08 s 1.35 s 1.43 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 9.83 324 ms 360 ms 383 ms 0%
Cart 9.83 269 ms 302 ms 322 ms 0%
Checkout 9.83 204 ms 236 ms 245 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 9.38 1.46 s 1.84 s 1.92 s 0%
Cart 9.38 1.16 s 1.5 s 1.56 s 0%
Checkout 9.38 934 ms 1.19 s 1.24 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 64 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 8 8
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 16 GB 15.6 GiB
Storage 100 GB SSD 96.8 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM KVM

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8280 CPU @ 2.70GHz
CPU cores
8
CPU frequency
2694 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
15.6 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
96.8 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-142-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
CPU-Optimized 8 vCPU / 16 GB
Product line
CPU-Optimized
Location
New York 1
vCPU
8 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
16 GB
Storage
100 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2 Gbps
Transfer
6 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$168.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.25
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 10, 2026, 11:55:03 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 10, 2026, 11:54:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 10, 2026, 11:54:59 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 10, 2026, 11:54:59 UTC
Completed
Oct 10, 2026, 13:10:02 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 10, 2026, 13:10:02 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.32
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