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DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 2 vCPU / 4 GB

New York 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 3, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,258
Faster than 45% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,096 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,431
Faster than 9% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,282 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
159,941
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 121,673 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$42.00
34 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    CPU-Optimized 2 vCPU / 4 GB
  • Location
    New York 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB SSD
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Manual
  • Queued at
    Oct 3, 2026, 16:24:20 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core Result link
Geekbench 7 1,258 1,431 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
1,230
27th of 44
1,324
38th of 44
Navigation
1,635
13th of 44
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,194
25th of 44
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,315
24th of 44
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,231
23rd of 44
1,472
36th of 44
Clang
1,331
18th of 44
1,660
36th of 44
Text Processing
1,273
21st of 44
1,261
39th of 44
Asset Compression
1,020
34th of 44
1,376
39th of 44
HDR
1,118
27th of 44
1,237
38th of 44
Photo Editor
1,263
26th of 44
1,459
37th of 44
Ray Tracer
1,259
26th of 44
1,731
39th of 44
Structure from Motion
1,408
24th of 44
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,188
26th of 44
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,240
25th of 44
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,244
28th of 44
Single-core only
Video Player
1,279
28th of 44
Single-core only

Rank among the 44 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 312 MB/s (79,865 IOPS) 312.8 MB/s (80,076 IOPS) 624.8 MB/s (159,941 IOPS)
64K 1.19 GB/s (19,430 IOPS) 1.19 GB/s (19,532 IOPS) 2.38 GB/s (38,962 IOPS)
512K 1001.5 MB/s (2,003 IOPS) 1.03 GB/s (2,109 IOPS) 2.01 GB/s (4,112 IOPS)
1M 1.25 GB/s (1,280 IOPS) 1.33 GB/s (1,365 IOPS) 2.58 GB/s (2,645 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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IPv6 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 1.62 Gbps 1.78 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.79 Gbps 1.8 Gbps
Uztelecom, Tashkent, UZ (10G) IPv4 25.6 Mbps 920 Mbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 462 Mbps 712 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.78 Gbps 1.81 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.01 Gbps 1.89 Gbps
Edgoo, Sao Paulo, BR (1G) IPv4 1.77 Gbps 1.54 Gbps
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv6 1.88 Gbps 1.78 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv6 1.43 Gbps 1.78 Gbps
Uztelecom, Tashkent, UZ (10G) IPv6 1.06 Gbps 1.42 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv6 512 Mbps 913 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv6 1.24 Gbps 1.8 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv6 2.01 Gbps 1.87 Gbps
Edgoo, Sao Paulo, BR (1G) IPv6 1.79 Gbps 1.56 Gbps

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

Advertised vs. measured

Spec 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 8280 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
New York 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 3, 2026, 16:25:21 UTC
Parser version
4

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 3, 2026, 16:24:20 UTC
Server created
Oct 3, 2026, 16:25:17 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 3, 2026, 16:25:19 UTC
Completed
Oct 3, 2026, 16:45:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 3, 2026, 16:45:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.022