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DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 2 vCPU / 4 GB

London 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 8, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,025
Faster than 31% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,212
Faster than 0% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
63,808
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$42.00
29 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    CPU-Optimized 2 vCPU / 4 GB
  • Location
    London 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB SSD
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 8, 2026, 04:21:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,025 1,212 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
1,071
40th of 53
1,102
49th of 51
Navigation
1,237
37th of 53
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,029
38th of 53
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,120
38th of 53
Single-core only
Photo Library
855
42nd of 53
1,068
48th of 51
Clang
1,122
36th of 53
1,447
43rd of 51
Text Processing
1,017
37th of 53
1,094
48th of 51
Asset Compression
866
48th of 53
1,191
47th of 51
HDR
958
39th of 53
1,112
47th of 51
Photo Editor
1,111
37th of 53
1,386
45th of 51
Ray Tracer
972
42nd of 53
1,364
48th of 51
Structure from Motion
1,107
42nd of 53
Single-core only
Game Physics
998
40th of 53
Single-core only
Video Encoder
963
40th of 53
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,068
41st of 53
Single-core only
Video Player
979
42nd of 53
Single-core only

Rank among the 53 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 11.6 GB/s 3 1.75%
Scale higher is better 12.5 GB/s 3 0.208%
Add higher is better 13.1 GB/s 3 0.213%
Triad higher is better 13.1 GB/s 3 0.272%

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 255/s 3 0.564%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 16,786/s 3 0.0864%
SHA-256 higher is better 284 MB/s 3 0.237%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.73 GB/s 3 0.426%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.53 GB/s 3 0.209%

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 7.14 ms 3 0%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 277/s 3 0.208%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 13.3 ms 3 2.08%
Requests per second, average higher is better 277/s 3 0.0721%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 124.5 MB/s (31,862 IOPS) 124.8 MB/s (31,946 IOPS) 249.3 MB/s (63,808 IOPS)
64K 155.2 MB/s (2,483 IOPS) 156 MB/s (2,496 IOPS) 311.2 MB/s (4,979 IOPS)
512K 211.4 MB/s (422 IOPS) 222.6 MB/s (445 IOPS) 434 MB/s (867 IOPS)
1M 280.3 MB/s (280 IOPS) 299 MB/s (298 IOPS) 579.3 MB/s (578 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 2.01 Gbps 1.9 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 2 Gbps 1.89 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.14 Gbps 1.33 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.06 Gbps 1.53 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.67 Gbps 1.59 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 1,858 0.538 ms
fdatasync 1,726 0.58 ms
fsync 725 1.38 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 795 1.26 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 955 1.05 ms
fdatasync 1,771 0.565 ms
fsync 815 1.23 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 430 2.33 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 830 1.21 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 428 2.33 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 218 4.6 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 108 9.27 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 52.6 19 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 791 1.26 ms
write, close, fsync 819 1.22 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 610,654 0.002 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) 1 963 1.04 ms 1.19 ms 1.86 ms 5.26 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,557 2.79 ms 5.47 ms 8.78 ms 14.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,595 9.5 ms 29.7 ms 50.3 ms 79.9 ms 0
Read only 1 20,098 0.056 ms 0.069 ms 0.085 ms 0.146 ms 0
Read only 8 27,744 0.265 ms 0.416 ms 0.503 ms 1.61 ms 0
Read only 32 28,199 0.997 ms 1.47 ms 2.06 ms 3.7 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.08 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) 1 753 1.18 ms 1.74 ms 5.79 ms 12.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,800 3.63 ms 8.89 ms 21.1 ms 47.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,564 10.6 ms 22.7 ms 40.6 ms 98 ms 0
Read only 1 13,407 0.059 ms 0.107 ms 0.408 ms 2.26 ms 0
Read only 8 21,633 0.344 ms 0.534 ms 0.703 ms 2.31 ms 0
Read only 32 22,279 1.31 ms 2 ms 2.84 ms 4.88 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 24.4 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 1 161 3,216 5.28 ms 9.06 ms 33.1 ms 0
Read/write 8 426 8,526 16.1 ms 41.1 ms 62.2 ms 0
Read/write 32 510 10,197 61.1 ms 103 ms 135 ms 0
Read only 1 559 8,940 1.82 ms 2.35 ms 2.81 ms 0
Read only 8 964 15,431 8.13 ms 10.7 ms 12.5 ms 0
Read only 32 893 14,283 36.2 ms 45.8 ms 49.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 17.4 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 42,210 38,373 1.31 ms 3.26 ms 5.79 ms
1:1 set:get 41,243 20,621 1.35 ms 3.25 ms 5.66 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 2 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
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WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.21 1.31 s 1.41 s 1.45 s 0%
Shop page 1.21 1.76 s 1.92 s 1.94 s 0%
Category page 1.21 1.12 s 1.76 s 1.87 s 0%
Product page 1.21 1.23 s 1.37 s 1.42 s 0%
Product search 1.21 1.04 s 1.18 s 1.27 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.36 4.76 s 5.35 s 5.42 s 0%
Shop page 1.36 6.43 s 7.13 s 7.3 s 0%
Category page 1.31 5.65 s 6.64 s 6.79 s 0%
Product page 0.933 4.88 s 5.18 s 5.31 s 0%
Product search 0.904 4.46 s 4.76 s 4.83 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.25 1.39 s 1.49 s 1.57 s 0%
Cart 2.25 1.12 s 1.27 s 1.3 s 0%
Checkout 2.25 879 ms 994 ms 1.06 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.32 4.72 s 5.87 s 6.33 s 0%
Cart 2.32 4.9 s 5.32 s 6.31 s 0%
Checkout 2.32 3.84 s 4.38 s 4.6 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 65 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 25 GB SSD 24.1 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 8168 CPU @ 2.70GHz
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2694 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
24.1 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
CPU-Optimized 2 vCPU / 4 GB
Product line
CPU-Optimized
Location
London 1
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
25 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2 Gbps
Transfer
4 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$42.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.063
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 8, 2026, 04:22:37 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 8, 2026, 04:21:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 8, 2026, 04:22:13 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 8, 2026, 04:22:13 UTC
Completed
Oct 8, 2026, 05:47:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 8, 2026, 05:47:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.090
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