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Vultr General Purpose AMD 2 vCPU / 8 GB

New Jersey, US

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 17, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,728
Faster than 88% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
3,302
Faster than 88% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
166,996
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$60.00
55 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    Vultr
  • Plan
    General Purpose AMD 2 vCPU / 8 GB
  • Location
    New Jersey, US
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    50 GB NVMe
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    2284
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 17, 2026, 21:34:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,728 3,302 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
1,762
32nd of 241
3,113
56th of 166
Navigation
1,832
18th of 241
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,793
31st of 241
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,793
32nd of 241
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,609
36th of 241
3,169
66th of 166
Clang
1,649
25th of 241
3,188
69th of 166
Text Processing
1,560
37th of 241
3,053
67th of 166
Asset Compression
1,761
37th of 241
3,536
68th of 166
HDR
1,746
38th of 241
3,406
44th of 166
Photo Editor
1,795
48th of 241
3,649
60th of 166
Ray Tracer
1,637
36th of 241
3,349
71st of 166
Structure from Motion
1,752
44th of 241
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,699
31st of 241
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,748
30th of 241
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,746
37th of 241
Single-core only
Video Player
1,789
36th of 241
Single-core only

Rank among the 241 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 65.3 GB/s 3 1.4%
Scale higher is better 77.3 GB/s 3 2.6%
Add higher is better 69 GB/s 3 3%
Triad higher is better 71.6 GB/s 3 0.81%

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 351/s 3 0.822%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 22,866/s 3 1.57%
SHA-256 higher is better 2.02 GB/s 3 0.484%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 8.9 GB/s 3 0.288%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 4.77 GB/s 3 0.313%

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 4.01 ms 3 0.199%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 470/s 3 0.369%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 8.42 ms 3 5.18%
Requests per second, average higher is better 462/s 3 0.282%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 325.7 MB/s (83,388 IOPS) 326.6 MB/s (83,608 IOPS) 652.3 MB/s (166,996 IOPS)
64K 1.57 GB/s (25,774 IOPS) 1.58 GB/s (25,910 IOPS) 3.15 GB/s (51,684 IOPS)
512K 1.93 GB/s (3,946 IOPS) 2.03 GB/s (4,156 IOPS) 3.96 GB/s (8,102 IOPS)
1M 2.08 GB/s (2,131 IOPS) 2.22 GB/s (2,273 IOPS) 4.3 GB/s (4,404 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 2.7 Gbps 3.29 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 11.3 Gbps 11.8 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 4.55 Gbps 357 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 3.17 Gbps 3.59 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 9.41 Gbps 9.41 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 10,806 0.093 ms
fdatasync 10,170 0.098 ms
fsync 7,856 0.127 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 8,314 0.12 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 5,384 0.186 ms
fdatasync 9,644 0.104 ms
fsync 7,692 0.13 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,144 0.241 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 8,116 0.123 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 4,278 0.234 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 2,161 0.463 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 887 1.13 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 443 2.26 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 7,100 0.141 ms
write, close, fsync 7,205 0.139 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 651,302 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 2,584 0.378 ms 0.445 ms 0.521 ms 1.02 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,450 1.38 ms 2.35 ms 3.09 ms 4.72 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,220 4.89 ms 14.1 ms 24.1 ms 39.4 ms 0
Read only 1 28,586 0.032 ms 0.047 ms 0.058 ms 0.09 ms 0
Read only 8 66,881 0.103 ms 0.172 ms 0.216 ms 0.449 ms 0
Read only 32 64,074 0.395 ms 0.676 ms 0.961 ms 1.49 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.05 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 2,353 0.413 ms 0.487 ms 0.62 ms 1.94 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,473 1.42 ms 2.03 ms 2.85 ms 7.18 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 6,296 4.82 ms 7.7 ms 9.82 ms 14.1 ms 0
Read only 1 23,424 0.039 ms 0.057 ms 0.079 ms 0.403 ms 0
Read only 8 53,248 0.134 ms 0.222 ms 0.278 ms 0.736 ms 0
Read only 32 52,036 0.53 ms 0.797 ms 1.09 ms 2.27 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 11.5 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 1 490 9,795 1.89 ms 2.57 ms 5.18 ms 0
Read/write 8 1,014 20,277 7.7 ms 11.9 ms 16.7 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,066 21,312 29.7 ms 48.3 ms 63.3 ms 0
Read only 1 1,131 18,098 0.856 ms 1.08 ms 1.27 ms 0
Read only 8 2,235 35,763 3.36 ms 5.28 ms 5.99 ms 0
Read only 32 2,109 33,743 14.7 ms 20 ms 22.3 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 6.2 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 65,924 59,931 0.655 ms 2.94 ms 4.51 ms
1:1 set:get 66,488 33,244 0.711 ms 2.88 ms 3.95 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
Next.js nextjs 936 2,889 4,254 443 ms
Express express-postgresjs 8,582 12,547 48,027 53.6 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 8,311 13,034 51,640 64.1 ms
NestJS nestjs 6,119 6,822 26,806 70.9 ms
Nuxt nuxt 7,845 12,488 43,227 61.7 ms
FastAPI fastapi 4,374 5,627 27,419 251 ms
Django django-postgresql 2,249 2,491 6,242 212 ms
Rails rails 3,612 5,107 18,911 97.3 ms
Laravel laravel 973 1,036 1,916 282 ms
Symfony symfony 1,206 1,311 3,666 222 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.

Web apps

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 3.07 522 ms 594 ms 606 ms 0%
Shop page 3.07 703 ms 781 ms 804 ms 0%
Category page 3.07 452 ms 701 ms 777 ms 0%
Product page 3.07 480 ms 565 ms 586 ms 0%
Product search 3.07 412 ms 481 ms 506 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 3.09 1.92 s 2.17 s 2.23 s 0%
Shop page 3.09 2.5 s 2.82 s 2.92 s 0%
Category page 3.09 2.18 s 2.6 s 2.79 s 0%
Product page 3.09 1.91 s 2.06 s 2.14 s 0%
Product search 3.09 1.77 s 1.94 s 2 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 5.92 564 ms 649 ms 678 ms 0%
Cart 5.92 452 ms 532 ms 556 ms 0%
Checkout 5.92 359 ms 418 ms 446 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 5.97 1.83 s 2.22 s 2.33 s 0%
Cart 5.97 1.94 s 2.14 s 2.21 s 0%
Checkout 5.97 1.53 s 1.78 s 1.84 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.

Discourse

Signed in

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Topic page 3.05 145 ms 166 ms 374 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.53 74.1 ms 92.2 ms 233 ms 0%
Home page 1.53 131 ms 225 ms 301 ms 0%
Categories page 0.763 151 ms 170 ms 175 ms 0%
User activity page 0.763 90.5 ms 99.1 ms 158 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 5.42 331 ms 430 ms 804 ms 0%
Topic JSON 2.71 170 ms 217 ms 237 ms 0%
Home page 2.71 290 ms 537 ms 715 ms 0%
Categories page 1.37 332 ms 432 ms 594 ms 0%
User activity page 1.36 213 ms 443 ms 607 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 5.32 1.19 s 1.45 s 1.67 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.7 1.03 s 1.33 s 1.5 s 0%
Home page 2.67 1.16 s 1.45 s 1.68 s 0%
Categories page 1.35 1.21 s 1.51 s 1.64 s 0%
User activity page 1.33 1.09 s 1.33 s 1.52 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 101 44.2 ms 106 ms 133 ms 0%
Topic JSON 50.5 42.8 ms 105 ms 133 ms 0%
Home page 50.4 44.7 ms 107 ms 136 ms 0%
Categories page 25.3 43.3 ms 109 ms 138 ms 0%
User activity page 25.3 142 ms 215 ms 335 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 21 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Discourse ran with 4 app workers and 2048 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 8 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 1,775 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 12.1 24.2 ms 27.3 ms 34.2 ms 0%
Post page 30.3 12.3 ms 14.9 ms 20.1 ms 0%
Tag page 6.06 15.2 ms 17.8 ms 22.1 ms 0%
Author page 6.05 16.2 ms 18.6 ms 21.7 ms 0%
RSS feed 6.05 19.8 ms 22.9 ms 26.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 15.3 72.1 ms 89.4 ms 111 ms 0%
Post page 38.1 47.3 ms 66.9 ms 76.6 ms 0%
Tag page 7.61 43.3 ms 62.2 ms 69 ms 0%
Author page 7.63 45.2 ms 62.3 ms 68.9 ms 0%
RSS feed 7.61 48.1 ms 65.7 ms 75 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 15 269 ms 317 ms 352 ms 0%
Post page 37.4 227 ms 274 ms 315 ms 0%
Tag page 7.48 146 ms 181 ms 216 ms 0%
Author page 7.48 148 ms 184 ms 217 ms 0%
RSS feed 7.48 149 ms 181 ms 212 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 6.66 22.9 ms 27 ms 30.1 ms 0%
Post editor 20 9.08 ms 12 ms 15.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 20 21.8 ms 26.5 ms 32.7 ms 0%
Member list 6.66 25.9 ms 31.7 ms 37.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 8.43 27.6 ms 33 ms 36.2 ms 0%
Post editor 25.3 16.2 ms 20.2 ms 22.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 25.3 117 ms 145 ms 156 ms 0%
Member list 8.44 33.7 ms 39.3 ms 50.5 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 s per level, after a 20 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Ghost ran the way its ghost-docker setup runs it: one Node process, and MySQL with its stock 128 MB buffer pool. Memory peaked with Ghost at 552 MB and MySQL at 617 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 2.34 56.3 ms 62.4 ms 67.1 ms 0%
Blog index 2.34 193 ms 206 ms 213 ms 0%
Blog post 7 18.5 ms 26.2 ms 29.2 ms 0%
Bread page 7.02 20.2 ms 22.9 ms 25 ms 0%
Location page 2.34 19.3 ms 21.9 ms 23.2 ms 0%
Site search 2.33 29.8 ms 51.9 ms 53.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 3.78 153 ms 216 ms 229 ms 0%
Blog index 3.79 501 ms 701 ms 772 ms 0%
Blog post 11.4 43.2 ms 71.2 ms 96.4 ms 0%
Bread page 11.4 48 ms 68.2 ms 75.6 ms 0%
Location page 3.81 44.3 ms 60.4 ms 69.6 ms 0%
Site search 3.76 66.9 ms 146 ms 165 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 4.17 449 ms 606 ms 689 ms 0%
Blog index 4.24 1.09 s 1.26 s 1.34 s 0%
Blog post 12.5 258 ms 381 ms 464 ms 0%
Bread page 12.6 262 ms 410 ms 511 ms 0%
Location page 4.21 255 ms 369 ms 434 ms 0%
Site search 4.19 301 ms 457 ms 523 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.929 59.3 ms 64.6 ms 140 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.89 254 ms 318 ms 403 ms 0%
Page editor 2.82 120 ms 141 ms 189 ms 0%
Image library 0.945 46.2 ms 52 ms 319 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.929 24.9 ms 53.2 ms 56.7 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.47 186 ms 423 ms 482 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.99 640 ms 989 ms 1.13 s 0%
Page editor 4.5 287 ms 594 ms 679 ms 0%
Image library 1.49 175 ms 411 ms 466 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.47 64 ms 192 ms 291 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 s per level, after a 20 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Wagtail ran the way bakerydemo ships it: uWSGI with 2 workers of 4 threads each, whatever the box, and Postgres and Redis on stock settings. Memory peaked with Wagtail at 302 MB, Postgres at 152 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 50 GB NVMe 46.8 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM MICROSOFT

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

Detected hardware

CPU model
AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
3250 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
4.8 GiB
Disk reported
46.8 GiB
Virtualization reported
MICROSOFT
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-146-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
General Purpose AMD 2 vCPU / 8 GB
Product line
Optimized Cloud General Purpose
Location
New Jersey, US
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
50 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
5.12 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$60.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.082
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 17, 2026, 21:36:07 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 17, 2026, 21:34:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 17, 2026, 21:34:56 UTC
Completed
Oct 17, 2026, 23:07:32 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 17, 2026, 23:07:32 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.13
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