# DigitalOcean General Purpose — Premium Intel 2 vCPU / 8 GB

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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

[DigitalOcean](https://rackcensus.com/vps-providers/digitalocean-benchmarks)[General Purpose — Premium Intel 2 vCPU / 8 GB](https://rackcensus.com/plans/s0t2dc-digitalocean-general-purpose-premium-intel-2-vcpu-8-gb-benchmarks?location=nyc3)

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Provider

DigitalOcean

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Plan

General Purpose — Premium Intel 2 vCPU / 8 GB

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Location

New York 3

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vCPU

2

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RAM

8 GB

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Storage

30 GB NVMe

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Network

10 Gbps

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OS image

ubuntu-24-04-x64

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 19, 2026, 08:06:00 UTC

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## CPU

| Version | Single-core | Multi-core | Result link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geekbench 7 | 1,213 | 1,396 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/673550) |

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 | 1,18711th of 25 | 1,32013th of 15 |
| Navigation | 1,24715th of 25 | Single-core only |
| HTML5 Browser | 1,2819th of 25 | Single-core only |
| PDF Viewer | 1,44210th of 25 | Single-core only |
| Photo Library | 1,17510th of 25 | 1,45913th of 15 |
| Clang | 1,1909th of 25 | 1,50614th of 15 |
| Text Processing | 1,2418th of 25 | 1,23613th of 15 |
| Asset Compression | 1,01819th of 25 | 1,31813th of 15 |
| HDR | 1,09212th of 25 | 1,17214th of 15 |
| Photo Editor | 1,33313th of 25 | 1,64013th of 15 |
| Ray Tracer | 1,11716th of 25 | 1,58813th of 15 |
| Structure from Motion | 1,4609th of 25 | Single-core only |
| Game Physics | 1,08414th of 25 | Single-core only |
| Video Encoder | 1,16411th of 25 | Single-core only |
| Audio Encoder | 1,23311th of 25 | Single-core only |
| Video Player | 1,23412th 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.

PostgreSQL transactions measurements| Repeat | Offered / s | transactions/s | p95 / p99 ms | Errors / dropped | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 100 | 100 | 6.32 / 7.08 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 500 | 497.3 | 5.36 / 7.66 | 0 / 486 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 1000 | 991.83 | 5.36 / 7.84 | 0 / 1470 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 3000 | 2976.69 | 5.62 / 8.76 | 0 / 4174 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | 6.39 / 7.24 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 500 | 497.75 | 5.24 / 6.84 | 0 / 404 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 1000 | 991.11 | 5.62 / 8.57 | 0 / 1600 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 3000 | 2976.72 | 5.56 / 8.76 | 0 / 4183 | Met 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.

Redis cache measurements| Repeat | Offered / s | operations/s | p95 / p99 ms | Errors / dropped | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 1000 | 1000 | 1.79 / 2.91 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 5000 | 4999.98 | 1.73 / 2.54 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 10000 | 9999.79 | 1.5 / 2.95 | 0 / 30 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 25000 | 24017.35 | 16.39 / 21.52 | 0 / 176724 | load generator saturated |
| 2 | 1000 | 1000 | 1.7 / 1.93 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 5000 | 4999.98 | 1.87 / 2.91 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 10000 | 9999.46 | 1.52 / 3.4 | 0 / 83 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 25000 | 23169.24 | 18.59 / 24.13 | 0 / 329369 | load generator saturated |

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

### Redis persistent queue
Measured

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

Redis persistent queue measurements| Repeat | Offered / s | jobs/s | p95 / p99 ms | Errors / dropped | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 100 | 100 | 4.48 / 6.17 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 500 | 500 | 4.88 / 8.57 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 1000 | 999.99 | 3.27 / 4.65 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 3000 | 2999.98 | 8.2 / 14.74 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | 4.22 / 5.62 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 500 | 500 | 3.19 / 4.01 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 1000 | 999.99 | 3.15 / 3.87 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 3000 | 2999.97 | 4.01 / 8.57 | 0 / 0 | Met 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.

n8n workflows measurements| Repeat | Offered / s | workflows/s | p95 / p99 ms | Errors / dropped | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 5 | 5 | 30.59 / 43.3 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 20 | 20 | 23.63 / 32.53 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 50 | 49.99 | 36.41 / 214.55 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 100 | 59.83 | 4663.94 / 4901.9 | 0 / 7063 | latency limit exceeded |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | 30.9 / 43.75 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | 23.88 / 32.53 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | 36.41 / 234.74 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 100 | 60.38 | 4526.75 / 4950.93 | 0 / 6978 | latency limit exceeded |

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

### n8n queue workers
Measured

Completed queued workflows including waiting time and worker execution.

n8n queue workers measurements| Repeat | Offered / s | workflows/s | p95 / p99 ms | Errors / dropped | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 5 | 5 | 40.74 / 57.54 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 20 | 20 | 40.32 / 149.65 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 50 | 39.11 | 6807.61 / 7154.92 | 0 / 1744 | latency limit exceeded |
| 1 | 100 | 39.07 | 7298.75 / 7445.48 | 0 / 10762 | latency limit exceeded |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | 40.32 / 64.31 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | 33.55 / 103.25 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 50 | 41.83 | 6541.94 / 6875.7 | 0 / 1264 | latency limit exceeded |
| 2 | 100 | 42.13 | 6477.16 / 6944.46 | 0 / 10191 | latency limit exceeded |

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

### Ghost publishing
Measured

Readers, authenticated draft creation, publishing and image uploads.

Ghost publishing measurements| Repeat | Offered / s | journeys/s | p95 / p99 ms | Errors / dropped | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 5 | 5 | 349.99 / 394.5 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 20 | 20 | 453.62 / 526.8 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 50 | 38.67 | 7013.92 / 7013.92 | 763 / 1036 | latency limit exceeded |
| 1 | 100 | 38.1 | 7013.92 / 7013.92 | 1009 / 9955 | latency limit exceeded |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | 349.99 / 390.58 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | 449.12 / 496.21 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 50 | 38.93 | 7013.92 / 7013.92 | 753 / 1000 | latency limit exceeded |
| 2 | 100 | 39.24 | 7013.92 / 7013.92 | 842 / 9860 | latency 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%

### Elasticsearch search and ingestion
Measured

Full-text search, filtering and aggregations while new documents are indexed.

Elasticsearch search and ingestion measurements| Repeat | Offered / s | operations/s | p95 / p99 ms | Errors / dropped | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 10 | 10 | 11.27 / 14.9 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 50 | 50 | 8.86 / 12.03 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 100 | 100 | 8.76 / 12.42 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 1 | 250 | 250 | 12.03 / 27.6 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | 11.27 / 14.43 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | 9.06 / 12.56 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | 8.67 / 12.83 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |
| 2 | 250 | 250 | 11.15 / 24.13 | 0 / 0 | Met workload limits |

p95 ≤ 250 ms · p99 ≤ 500 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

| Spec | 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

Tests 46 of 51 done Live output 1277 lines

Setup 2 cores, 7.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 373 MB/s at 4k, 2.28 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.82 Gbit/s send, 3.06 Gbit/s receive 3 of 3Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 1,213 17 of 17Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 1,396 9 of 9Done

Web apps 5 failed 7 of 12Some failed

TestResultTime

PostgreSQL transactions 8 measured trials completed 8 trials Measurements, 8 measured trials completed 29m 34s

PostgreSQL large dataset RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError: Stopped RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError: 1m 33s

Redis cache 8 measured trials completed 8 trials Measurements, 8 measured trials completed 28m 27s

Redis persistent queue 8 measured trials completed 8 trials Measurements, 8 measured trials completed 28m 22s

Discourse community RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError: Stopped RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError: 16m 09s

n8n workflows 8 measured trials completed 8 trials Measurements, 8 measured trials completed 31m 16s

n8n queue workers 8 measured trials completed 8 trials Measurements, 8 measured trials completed 32m 11s

Ghost publishing 8 measured trials completed 8 trials Measurements, 8 measured trials completed 32m 37s

Formbricks / Next.js RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError: Stopped RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError: 14m 17s

Elasticsearch search and ingestion 8 measured trials completed 8 trials Measurements, 8 measured trials completed 36m 18s

GitHub self-hosted runner ValueError: set RUNNER\_BENCHMARK\_REPOSITORY and RUNNER\_BENCHMARK\_REVISION to the repository and commit hosting benchmark-runner.yml Stopped ValueError: set RUNNER\_BENCHMARK\_REPOSITORY and RUNNER\_BENCHMARK\_REVISION to the repository and commit hosting benchmark-runner.yml 0s

Odoo Community sales Application workloads Stopped 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' 1m 40s

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