DigitalOcean General Purpose 2 vCPU / 8 GB

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 19, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

1,139

Geekbench 7 multi-core

1,338

Disk 4K IOPS

135,527

fio random read and write, 50/50

Monthly price at test time

$63.00

21 multi-core points per dollar

Same price today

Server

DigitalOcean General Purpose 2 vCPU / 8 GB

Provider

DigitalOcean
Plan

General Purpose 2 vCPU / 8 GB
Location

London 1
vCPU

2
RAM

8 GB
Storage

25 GB SSD
Network

2 Gbps
OS image

ubuntu-24-04-x64
Trigger

Scheduled
Queued at

Oct 18, 2026, 17:05:00 UTC

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CPU

Version	Single-core	Multi-core	Result link
Geekbench 7	1,139	1,338	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	1,161 4th of 8	1,229 3rd of 4
Navigation	1,427 3rd of 8	Single-core only
HTML5 Browser	1,119 3rd of 8	Single-core only
PDF Viewer	1,234 3rd of 8	Single-core only
Photo Library	1,102 3rd of 8	1,385 3rd of 4
Clang	1,238 3rd of 8	1,552 3rd of 4
Text Processing	1,166 3rd of 8	1,200 3rd of 4
Asset Compression	924 6th of 8	1,270 3rd of 4
HDR	1,007 4th of 8	1,208 3rd of 4
Photo Editor	1,135 7th of 8	1,393 4th of 4
Ray Tracer	1,079 7th of 8	1,516 4th of 4
Structure from Motion	1,278 3rd of 8	Single-core only
Game Physics	1,123 3rd of 8	Single-core only
Video Encoder	1,088 4th of 8	Single-core only
Audio Encoder	1,122 6th of 8	Single-core only
Video Player	1,109 6th of 8	Single-core only

Rank among the 8 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	264.4 MB/s (67,674 IOPS)	265.1 MB/s (67,853 IOPS)	529.4 MB/s (135,527 IOPS)
64K	1.36 GB/s (22,247 IOPS)	1.37 GB/s (22,364 IOPS)	2.72 GB/s (44,611 IOPS)
512K	1.2 GB/s (2,450 IOPS)	1.26 GB/s (2,581 IOPS)	2.46 GB/s (5,031 IOPS)
1M	1.3 GB/s (1,330 IOPS)	1.39 GB/s (1,418 IOPS)	2.68 GB/s (2,748 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	1.98 Gbps	1.9 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G)	IPv4	1.64 Gbps	1.59 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G)	IPv4	1.16 Gbps	1.23 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Application workloads

PostgreSQL transactions

Failed

Durable transfers and indexed account lookups against a fixed relational dataset.

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

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.

URLError: <urlopen error timed out>

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 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 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 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 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 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%

Elasticsearch search and ingestion

Failed

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

URLError: <urlopen error timed out>

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% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM	8 GB	7.8 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 8280 CPU @ 2.70GHz
CPU cores: 2
CPU frequency: 2694 MHz
AES-NI: Yes
VM-x/AMD-V: Yes
RAM reported: 7.8 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: General Purpose 2 vCPU / 8 GB
Product line: General Purpose
Location: London 1
vCPU: 2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture: x86_64
RAM: 8 GB
Storage: 25 GB SSD
Virtualization: KVM
Network: 2 Gbps
Transfer: 4 TB
Port 25: Closed
Monthly price at test time: $63.00
Hourly price at test time: $0.094
YABS version: v2026-09-20
Ran at: Oct 19, 2026, 01:18:07 UTC
Parser version: 5

Run timeline

Queued: Oct 18, 2026, 17:05:00 UTC
First update from the server: Oct 19, 2026, 01:18:03 UTC
Completed: Oct 19, 2026, 01:59:00 UTC
Server deleted: Oct 19, 2026, 01:59:00 UTC
Cost of this run: $0.094

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