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DigitalOcean General Purpose — Premium Intel 2 vCPU / 8 GB

New York 3

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 20, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,213
Faster than 55% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,396
Disk 4K IOPS
90,966
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$76.00
18 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    General Purpose — Premium Intel 2 vCPU / 8 GB
  • Location
    New York 3
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    30 GB NVMe
  • Network
    10 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 19, 2026, 08:06:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,213 1,396 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
1,187
11th of 25
1,320
13th of 15
Navigation
1,247
15th of 25
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,281
9th of 25
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,442
10th of 25
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,175
10th of 25
1,459
13th of 15
Clang
1,190
9th of 25
1,506
14th of 15
Text Processing
1,241
8th of 25
1,236
13th of 15
Asset Compression
1,018
19th of 25
1,318
13th of 15
HDR
1,092
12th of 25
1,172
14th of 15
Photo Editor
1,333
13th of 25
1,640
13th of 15
Ray Tracer
1,117
16th of 25
1,588
13th of 15
Structure from Motion
1,460
9th of 25
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,084
14th of 25
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,164
11th of 25
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,233
11th of 25
Single-core only
Video Player
1,234
12th of 25
Single-core only

Rank among the 25 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 177.4 MB/s (45,423 IOPS) 177.9 MB/s (45,543 IOPS) 355.3 MB/s (90,966 IOPS)
64K 1.63 GB/s (26,744 IOPS) 1.64 GB/s (26,885 IOPS) 3.27 GB/s (53,629 IOPS)
512K 1.31 GB/s (2,685 IOPS) 1.38 GB/s (2,827 IOPS) 2.69 GB/s (5,512 IOPS)
1M 1.03 GB/s (1,054 IOPS) 1.1 GB/s (1,125 IOPS) 2.13 GB/s (2,179 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 9.38 Gbps 9.36 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.82 Gbps 3.06 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 757 Mbps 830 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
11001006.32 / 7.080 / 0Met workload limits
1500497.35.36 / 7.660 / 486Met workload limits
11000991.835.36 / 7.840 / 1470Met workload limits
130002976.695.62 / 8.760 / 4174Met workload limits
21001006.39 / 7.240 / 0Met workload limits
2500497.755.24 / 6.840 / 404Met workload limits
21000991.115.62 / 8.570 / 1600Met workload limits
230002976.725.56 / 8.760 / 4183Met 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
1100010001.79 / 2.910 / 0Met workload limits
150004999.981.73 / 2.540 / 0Met workload limits
1100009999.791.5 / 2.950 / 30Met workload limits
12500024017.3516.39 / 21.520 / 176724load generator saturated
2100010001.7 / 1.930 / 0Met workload limits
250004999.981.87 / 2.910 / 0Met workload limits
2100009999.461.52 / 3.40 / 83Met workload limits
22500023169.2418.59 / 24.130 / 329369load 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
11001004.48 / 6.170 / 0Met workload limits
15005004.88 / 8.570 / 0Met workload limits
11000999.993.27 / 4.650 / 0Met workload limits
130002999.988.2 / 14.740 / 0Met workload limits
21001004.22 / 5.620 / 0Met workload limits
25005003.19 / 4.010 / 0Met workload limits
21000999.993.15 / 3.870 / 0Met workload limits
230002999.974.01 / 8.570 / 0Met workload limits

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

Discourse community

Failed

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

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

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
15530.59 / 43.30 / 0Met workload limits
1202023.63 / 32.530 / 0Met workload limits
15049.9936.41 / 214.550 / 0Met workload limits
110059.834663.94 / 4901.90 / 7063latency limit exceeded
25530.9 / 43.750 / 0Met workload limits
2202023.88 / 32.530 / 0Met workload limits
2505036.41 / 234.740 / 0Met workload limits
210060.384526.75 / 4950.930 / 6978latency 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
15540.74 / 57.540 / 0Met workload limits
1202040.32 / 149.650 / 0Met workload limits
15039.116807.61 / 7154.920 / 1744latency limit exceeded
110039.077298.75 / 7445.480 / 10762latency limit exceeded
25540.32 / 64.310 / 0Met workload limits
2202033.55 / 103.250 / 0Met workload limits
25041.836541.94 / 6875.70 / 1264latency limit exceeded
210042.136477.16 / 6944.460 / 10191latency 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
155349.99 / 394.50 / 0Met workload limits
12020453.62 / 526.80 / 0Met workload limits
15038.677013.92 / 7013.92763 / 1036latency limit exceeded
110038.17013.92 / 7013.921009 / 9955latency limit exceeded
255349.99 / 390.580 / 0Met workload limits
22020449.12 / 496.210 / 0Met workload limits
25038.937013.92 / 7013.92753 / 1000latency limit exceeded
210039.247013.92 / 7013.92842 / 9860latency 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 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.7% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 30 GB NVMe 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
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8358 CPU @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2594 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
29 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.7% 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
General Purpose — Premium Intel 2 vCPU / 8 GB
Product line
General Purpose — Premium Intel
Location
New York 3
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
30 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
10 Gbps
Transfer
4 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$76.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.11
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 19, 2026, 21:59:34 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 19, 2026, 08:06:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 19, 2026, 21:59:01 UTC
Completed
Oct 20, 2026, 02:28:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 20, 2026, 02:28:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.51
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