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DigitalOcean Premium Intel 4 vCPU / 8 GB

New York 3

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 20, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,348
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,908
Disk 4K IOPS
100,814
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$109.00
27 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    Premium Intel 4 vCPU / 8 GB
  • Location
    New York 3
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    50 GB NVMe
  • Network
    10 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 19, 2026, 08:13:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,348 2,908 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
1,251
9th of 24
2,561
8th of 14
Navigation
1,478
6th of 24
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,388
6th of 24
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,567
6th of 24
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,248
8th of 24
2,950
8th of 14
Clang
1,332
6th of 24
3,356
8th of 14
Text Processing
1,354
7th of 24
2,580
9th of 14
Asset Compression
1,049
17th of 24
2,680
9th of 14
HDR
1,212
9th of 24
2,311
9th of 14
Photo Editor
1,536
7th of 24
3,422
9th of 14
Ray Tracer
1,356
7th of 24
3,692
7th of 14
Structure from Motion
1,605
8th of 24
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,230
10th of 24
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,321
7th of 24
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,284
9th of 24
Single-core only
Video Player
1,483
8th of 24
Single-core only

Rank among the 24 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.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 196.6 MB/s (50,341 IOPS) 197.2 MB/s (50,473 IOPS) 393.8 MB/s (100,814 IOPS)
64K 632.8 MB/s (10,124 IOPS) 636.1 MB/s (10,177 IOPS) 1.24 GB/s (20,301 IOPS)
512K 667.2 MB/s (1,334 IOPS) 702.7 MB/s (1,405 IOPS) 1.34 GB/s (2,739 IOPS)
1M 719.4 MB/s (719 IOPS) 767.3 MB/s (767 IOPS) 1.45 GB/s (1,486 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
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 8.24 Gbps busy
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 719 Mbps 1.75 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 608 Mbps 948 Mbps

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

Application workloads

PostgreSQL transactions

Measured

Durable transfers and indexed account lookups against a fixed relational dataset.

RepeatOffered / stransactions/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001006.24 / 7.160 / 0Met workload limits
1500496.944.65 / 5.690 / 550Met workload limits
11000992.314.54 / 5.240 / 1384Met workload limits
130002985.194.59 / 5.890 / 2661Met workload limits
21001006.24 / 70 / 0Met workload limits
2500496.364.76 / 5.620 / 654Met workload limits
210009924.54 / 5.240 / 1440Met workload limits
230002985.494.65 / 6.170 / 2607Met workload limits

p95 ≤ 50 ms · p99 ≤ 100 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

PostgreSQL large dataset

Failed

The same transaction mix against ten million accounts; the dataset never shrinks to fit a plan.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 100 ms · p99 ≤ 250 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis cache

Measured

A mixed cache workload with 1 KiB values, expiration, misses and eviction.

RepeatOffered / soperations/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11000999.991.65 / 1.760 / 0Met workload limits
150004999.971.57 / 1.70 / 0Met workload limits
1100009999.951.15 / 1.70 / 6Met workload limits
12500024273.6415.38 / 20.860 / 130535load generator saturated
21000999.991.6 / 1.730 / 0Met workload limits
250004999.971.57 / 1.730 / 0Met workload limits
2100009999.521.19 / 1.730 / 63Met workload limits
22500024323.5615.22 / 20.220 / 121587load generator saturated

p95 ≤ 10 ms · p99 ≤ 25 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis persistent queue

Measured

Enqueue, consume and acknowledge payloads with append-only persistence.

RepeatOffered / sjobs/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001003.82 / 4.480 / 0Met workload limits
15005002.91 / 3.150 / 0Met workload limits
1100010002.91 / 3.150 / 0Met workload limits
130002999.992.37 / 3.580 / 0Met workload limits
21001003.58 / 4.270 / 0Met workload limits
25005002.83 / 3.030 / 0Met workload limits
2100010002.95 / 3.230 / 0Met workload limits
230002999.992.33 / 3.450 / 0Met workload limits

p95 ≤ 20 ms · p99 ≤ 50 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Discourse community

Measured

Signed-in reading, search, posting and replies in a populated Rails forum.

RepeatOffered / sjourneys/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
121.96196.08 / 249.248 / 0error limit exceeded
154.69157.34 / 259.456 / 0error limit exceeded
1109.19165.41 / 264.64146 / 0error limit exceeded
12522.68239.48 / 371.58416 / 0error limit exceeded
221.96173.9 / 249.248 / 0error limit exceeded
254.69157.34 / 251.7556 / 0error limit exceeded
2109.19168.76 / 267.29146 / 0error limit exceeded
22522.68259.4 / 346.51416 / 0error limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1500 ms · p99 ≤ 3000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n workflows

Measured

Webhook, transformation, branching and a verified final response.

RepeatOffered / sworkflows/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
15522.44 / 27.880 / 0Met workload limits
1202017.46 / 21.750 / 0Met workload limits
1505015.54 / 21.970 / 0Met workload limits
110097.572779.58 / 2835.470 / 294latency limit exceeded
25521.52 / 25.940 / 0Met workload limits
2202017.46 / 20.640 / 0Met workload limits
2505016.22 / 21.750 / 0Met workload limits
210097.692724.79 / 2863.830 / 240latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n queue workers

Measured

Completed queued workflows including waiting time and worker execution.

RepeatOffered / sworkflows/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
15529.66 / 35.670 / 0Met workload limits
1202023.63 / 34.590 / 0Met workload limits
1505025.41 / 46.970 / 0Met workload limits
110093.762835.47 / 2863.830 / 915latency limit exceeded
25528.46 / 34.240 / 0Met workload limits
2202024.13 / 36.040 / 0Met workload limits
2505025.15 / 46.50 / 0Met workload limits
210093.352835.47 / 2921.410 / 976latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Ghost publishing

Measured

Readers, authenticated draft creation, publishing and image uploads.

RepeatOffered / sjourneys/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
155304.34 / 349.990 / 0Met workload limits
12020332.95 / 346.510 / 0Met workload limits
15043.867013.92 / 7013.92885 / 0latency limit exceeded
110051.487013.92 / 7013.92965 / 7471latency limit exceeded
255310.48 / 353.50 / 0Met workload limits
22020329.64 / 346.510 / 0Met workload limits
25043.837013.92 / 7013.92879 / 0latency limit exceeded
210051.067013.92 / 7013.92954 / 7579latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Formbricks / Next.js

Failed

Public survey rendering, persisted responses and authenticated analysis.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

GitHub self-hosted runner

Failed

A pinned build and test workflow with separate cold and warm dependency caches.

ValueError: set RUNNER_BENCHMARK_REPOSITORY and RUNNER_BENCHMARK_REVISION to the repository and commit hosting benchmark-runner.yml

p95 ≤ 3600000 ms · p99 ≤ 3600000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Odoo Community sales

Failed

Customer lookup, sales order confirmation, stock operations and reporting.

RuntimeError: fixture command in rc-odoo failed: -packages/odoo/cli/shell.py", line 148, in shell self.console(local_vars) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/cli/shell.py", line 82, in console exec(sys.stdin.read(), local_vars) File "<string>", line 1, in <module> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/rc-seed.py'

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 50 GB NVMe 48.4 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 8358 CPU @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
2600 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
48.4 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% 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
Premium Intel 4 vCPU / 8 GB
Product line
Premium Intel
Location
New York 3
vCPU
4 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
50 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
10 Gbps
Transfer
5 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$109.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.16
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 19, 2026, 22:48:00 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 19, 2026, 08:13:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 19, 2026, 22:47:57 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 19, 2026, 22:47:57 UTC
Completed
Oct 20, 2026, 03:23:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 20, 2026, 03:23:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.75
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