# DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4 vCPU / 8 GB

[New York 1](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/locations/new-york-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in New York")

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 6, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

1,030

Geekbench 7 multi-core

2,341

Disk 4K IOPS

109,180

fio random read and write, 50/50

Monthly price at test time

$84.00

28 multi-core points per dollar

Same price today

## Server

[DigitalOcean](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/vps-providers/digitalocean-benchmarks)[CPU-Optimized 4 vCPU / 8 GB](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/plans/hhcj36-digitalocean-cpu-optimized-4-vcpu-8-gb-benchmarks?location=nyc1)

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Provider

DigitalOcean

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Plan

CPU-Optimized 4 vCPU / 8 GB

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Location

New York 1

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vCPU

4

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RAM

8 GB

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Storage

50 GB SSD

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Network

2 Gbps

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OS image

ubuntu-24-04-x64

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 6, 2026, 01:01:00 UTC

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## CPU

| Version | Single-core | Multi-core | Result link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geekbench 7 | 1,030 | 2,341 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/559368) |

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 | 1,08623rd of 34 | 2,05426th of 34 |
| Navigation | 1,25321st of 34 | Single-core only |
| HTML5 Browser | 1,05023rd of 34 | Single-core only |
| PDF Viewer | 1,14122nd of 34 | Single-core only |
| Photo Library | 1,03621st of 34 | 2,46323rd of 34 |
| Clang | 1,12323rd of 34 | 2,84322nd of 34 |
| Text Processing | 1,07320th of 34 | 2,17425th of 34 |
| Asset Compression | 86030th of 34 | 2,24927th of 34 |
| HDR | 92925th of 34 | 1,97527th of 34 |
| Photo Editor | 1,05226th of 34 | 2,53521st of 34 |
| Ray Tracer | 91728th of 34 | 2,56323rd of 34 |
| Structure from Motion | 1,18423rd of 34 | Single-core only |
| Game Physics | 94028th of 34 | Single-core only |
| Video Encoder | 94625th of 34 | Single-core only |
| Audio Encoder | 1,02325th of 34 | Single-core only |
| Video Player | 95226th of 34 | Single-core only |

Rank among the 34 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 | 213 MB/s (54,518 IOPS) | 213.5 MB/s (54,662 IOPS) | 426.5 MB/s (109,180 IOPS) |
| 64K | 1.03 GB/s (16,881 IOPS) | 1.04 GB/s (16,970 IOPS) | 2.07 GB/s (33,851 IOPS) |
| 512K | 1.29 GB/s (2,631 IOPS) | 1.35 GB/s (2,771 IOPS) | 2.64 GB/s (5,402 IOPS) |
| 1M | 1.47 GB/s (1,502 IOPS) | 1.57 GB/s (1,602 IOPS) | 3.03 GB/s (3,104 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 | 1.55 Gbps | 1.79 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 1.84 Gbps | 1.79 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 725 Mbps | busy |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.83 Gbps | 1.81 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 2.01 Gbps | 1.89 Gbps |

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

## Advertised vs. measured

| Spec | Advertised | Measured |
| --- | --- | --- |
| vCPU | 4 | 4 |
| CPU | Dedicated vCPU | 0% of busy CPU time stolen |
| RAM | 8 GB | 7.8 GiB |
| Storage | 50 GB SSD | 48.4 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:** 4

**CPU frequency:** 2694 MHz

**AES-NI:** Yes

**VM-x/AMD-V:** Yes

**RAM reported:** 7.8 GiB

**Swap reported:** 0 MiB

**Disk reported:** 48.4 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 4 vCPU / 8 GB

**Product line:** CPU-Optimized

**Location:** New York 1

**vCPU:** 4 dedicated vCPU

**Architecture:** x86\_64

**RAM:** 8 GB

**Storage:** 50 GB SSD

**Virtualization:** KVM

**Network:** 2 Gbps

**Transfer:** 5 TB

**Port 25:** Closed

**Monthly price at test time:** $84.00

**Hourly price at test time:** $0.13

**YABS version:** v2026-09-20

**Ran at:** Oct 6, 2026, 01:02:02 UTC

**Parser version:** 4

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 6, 2026, 01:01:00 UTC

**Server created:** Oct 6, 2026, 01:01:59 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 6, 2026, 01:01:59 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 6, 2026, 01:15:00 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 6, 2026, 01:15:00 UTC

**Cost of this run:** $0.13

Tests 41 of 41 done Live output 147 lines

Setup 4 cores, 7.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 447 MB/s at 4k, 3.25 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.83 Gbit/s send, 1.80 Gbit/s receive, 2 retried 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 1,030 17 of 17Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 2,341 9 of 9Done

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