# DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8 vCPU / 16 GB

[New York 1](https://rackcensus.com/locations/new-york-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in New York")

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

[DigitalOcean](https://rackcensus.com/vps-providers/digitalocean-benchmarks)[CPU-Optimized 8 vCPU / 16 GB](https://rackcensus.com/plans/bz7nn9-digitalocean-cpu-optimized-8-vcpu-16-gb-benchmarks?location=nyc1)

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Provider

DigitalOcean

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Plan

CPU-Optimized 8 vCPU / 16 GB

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Location

New York 1

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vCPU

8

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RAM

16 GB

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Storage

100 GB SSD

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Network

2 Gbps

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OS image

ubuntu-24-04-x64

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 10, 2026, 11:54:00 UTC

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## CPU

| Version | Single-core | Multi-core | Result link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geekbench 7 | 972 | 4,207 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/596182) |

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 | 1,02055th of 71 | 3,17721st of 63 |
| Navigation | 1,20349th of 71 | Single-core only |
| HTML5 Browser | 98552nd of 71 | Single-core only |
| PDF Viewer | 1,08851st of 71 | Single-core only |
| Photo Library | 98145th of 71 | 4,50415th of 63 |
| Clang | 1,05250th of 71 | 5,25616th of 63 |
| Text Processing | 1,02446th of 71 | 3,97821st of 63 |
| Asset Compression | 81264th of 71 | 4,37124th of 63 |
| HDR | 87354th of 71 | 3,31220th of 63 |
| Photo Editor | 94555th of 71 | 4,39217th of 63 |
| Ray Tracer | 87162nd of 71 | 5,16019th of 63 |
| Structure from Motion | 1,10254th of 71 | Single-core only |
| Game Physics | 90761st of 71 | Single-core only |
| Video Encoder | 89357th of 71 | Single-core only |
| Audio Encoder | 96059th of 71 | Single-core only |
| Video Player | 91057th of 71 | Single-core only |

Rank among the 71 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

| Spec | 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

Tests 61 of 61 done Live output 773 lines

Setup 8 cores, 15.6 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 377 MB/s at 4k, 1.83 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.88 Gbit/s send, 1.76 Gbit/s receive 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 972 17 of 17Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 4,207 9 of 9Done

Phoronix (memory, TLS, scheduler) 3 of 3Done

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 12 of 12Done

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