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DigitalOcean v5 General Purpose 2 vCPU / 4 GB

Richmond 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 25, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
2,453
Faster than 97% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
3,217
Faster than 75% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
4,512
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$56.75
57 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    v5 General Purpose 2 vCPU / 4 GB
  • Location
    Richmond 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    30 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 23, 2026, 02:46:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 2,453 3,217 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
2,244
4th of 99
3,199
16th of 56
Navigation
2,128
4th of 99
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
2,447
3rd of 99
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
2,631
2nd of 99
Single-core only
Photo Library
2,486
3rd of 99
3,365
20th of 56
Clang
2,138
4th of 99
3,102
26th of 56
Text Processing
2,416
2nd of 99
2,823
25th of 56
Asset Compression
2,345
5th of 99
3,155
27th of 56
HDR
2,428
2nd of 99
2,793
23rd of 56
Photo Editor
3,363
2nd of 99
4,223
15th of 56
Ray Tracer
2,120
5th of 99
3,267
27th of 56
Structure from Motion
2,772
2nd of 99
Single-core only
Game Physics
2,261
4th of 99
Single-core only
Video Encoder
2,458
1st of 99
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
2,262
5th of 99
Single-core only
Video Player
3,086
2nd of 99
Single-core only

Rank among the 99 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 8.8 MB/s (2,251 IOPS) 8.8 MB/s (2,261 IOPS) 17.6 MB/s (4,512 IOPS)
64K 35.8 MB/s (572 IOPS) 36 MB/s (576 IOPS) 71.8 MB/s (1,148 IOPS)
512K 34.2 MB/s (68 IOPS) 36.3 MB/s (72 IOPS) 70.6 MB/s (140 IOPS)
1M 22.9 MB/s (22 IOPS) 25.2 MB/s (25 IOPS) 48.1 MB/s (47 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 3.84 Gbps 7.79 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 869 Mbps 2.6 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 674 Mbps 832 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
11001005.49 / 6.460 / 0Met workload limits
1500499.124.22 / 5.180 / 159Met workload limits
11000997.494.27 / 5.30 / 450Met workload limits
130002993.034.59 / 54.150 / 1250Met workload limits
21001005.43 / 6.390 / 0Met workload limits
2500499.844.27 / 5.240 / 28Met workload limits
21000997.614.32 / 5.360 / 430Met workload limits
230002993.174.54 / 52.520 / 1226Met 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

Failed

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

URLError: <urlopen error _ssl.c:983: The handshake operation timed out>

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

Redis persistent queue

Failed

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

URLError: <urlopen error _ssl.c:983: The handshake operation timed out>

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

Discourse community

Failed

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

URLError: <urlopen error _ssl.c:983: The handshake operation timed out>

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

n8n workflows

Failed

Webhook, transformation, branching and a verified final response.

URLError: <urlopen error _ssl.c:983: The handshake operation timed out>

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

n8n queue workers

Failed

Completed queued workflows including waiting time and worker execution.

URLError: <urlopen error _ssl.c:983: The handshake operation timed out>

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

Ghost publishing

Failed

Readers, authenticated draft creation, publishing and image uploads.

URLError: <urlopen error timed out>

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

Formbricks / Next.js

Failed

Public survey rendering, persisted responses and authenticated analysis.

URLError: <urlopen error timed out>

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

GitHub self-hosted runner

Insufficient RAM

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

Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 4096 MiB, 3914 MiB detected.

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 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 30 GB SSD 29 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
AMD EPYC 9555P 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
3195 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
29 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
v5 General Purpose 2 vCPU / 4 GB
Product line
v5 General Purpose
Location
Richmond 1
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
30 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
4 Gbps
Transfer
4 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$56.75
Hourly price at test time
$0.076
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 25, 2026, 15:58:31 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 23, 2026, 02:46:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 25, 2026, 15:58:29 UTC
Completed
Oct 25, 2026, 17:32:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 25, 2026, 17:32:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.12
TestResultTime
GitHub self-hosted runner Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 4096 MiB, 3914 MiB detected. Not run Requires 8192 MiB RAM; plan has 4096 MiB, 3914 MiB detected.
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