# DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 2 vCPU / 4 GB

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

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 5, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

934

Median here: 1,096 over 2 runs in 90 days

Geekbench 7 multi-core

1,133

Median here: 1,282 over 2 runs in 90 days

Disk 4K IOPS

83,404

fio random read and write, 50/50

Median here: 121,673 over 2 runs in 90 days

Monthly price at test time

$42.00

27 multi-core points per dollar

Same price today

## Server

[DigitalOcean](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/vps-providers/digitalocean-benchmarks)[CPU-Optimized 2 vCPU / 4 GB](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/plans/xhyrw9-digitalocean-cpu-optimized-2-vcpu-4-gb-benchmarks?location=nyc1)

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Provider

DigitalOcean

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Plan

CPU-Optimized 2 vCPU / 4 GB

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Location

New York 1

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vCPU

2

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RAM

4 GB

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Storage

25 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 5, 2026, 21:50:00 UTC

[Visit DigitalOcean](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/go/digitalocean)

## Latest runs of this plan

- [Singapore 1 Oct 3, 2026](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/benchmarks/t36q0p-digitalocean-c-2-sgp1-benchmark)972
- [New York 1 Oct 3, 2026](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/benchmarks/wvj2os-digitalocean-c-2-nyc1-benchmark)1,258

[Full history of this plan](https://74pzd.hatchboxapp.com/plans/xhyrw9-digitalocean-cpu-optimized-2-vcpu-4-gb-benchmarks/history)

## CPU

| Version | Single-core | Multi-core | Result link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geekbench 7 | 934 | 1,133 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/558600) |

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 | 99231st of 36 | 1,02436th of 36 |
| Navigation | 1,12428th of 36 | Single-core only |
| HTML5 Browser | 93529th of 36 | Single-core only |
| PDF Viewer | 1,05828th of 36 | Single-core only |
| Photo Library | 94925th of 36 | 1,19334th of 36 |
| Clang | 98829th of 36 | 1,28436th of 36 |
| Text Processing | 96629th of 36 | 1,03136th of 36 |
| Asset Compression | 79434th of 36 | 1,08835th of 36 |
| HDR | 84429th of 36 | 1,04136th of 36 |
| Photo Editor | 96830th of 36 | 1,24235th of 36 |
| Ray Tracer | 82834th of 36 | 1,19436th of 36 |
| Structure from Motion | 1,06329th of 36 | Single-core only |
| Game Physics | 84432nd of 36 | Single-core only |
| Video Encoder | 84230th of 36 | Single-core only |
| Audio Encoder | 94831st of 36 | Single-core only |
| Video Player | 86730th of 36 | Single-core only |

Rank among the 36 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 | 162.7 MB/s (41,647 IOPS) | 163.1 MB/s (41,757 IOPS) | 325.8 MB/s (83,404 IOPS) |
| 64K | 1.06 GB/s (17,328 IOPS) | 1.06 GB/s (17,419 IOPS) | 2.12 GB/s (34,747 IOPS) |
| 512K | 1.38 GB/s (2,817 IOPS) | 1.45 GB/s (2,967 IOPS) | 2.82 GB/s (5,784 IOPS) |
| 1M | 1.38 GB/s (1,414 IOPS) | 1.47 GB/s (1,508 IOPS) | 2.86 GB/s (2,922 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 | 1.86 Gbps | 1.75 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 1.86 Gbps | 1.78 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 715 Mbps | 742 Mbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 1.83 Gbps | 1.83 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 | 2 | 2 |
| CPU | Dedicated vCPU | 0.6% 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:** 0.6% 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 5, 2026, 21:51:34 UTC

**Parser version:** 4

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 5, 2026, 21:50:00 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 5, 2026, 21:51:05 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 5, 2026, 22:10:00 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 5, 2026, 22:10:00 UTC

**Cost of this run:** $0.063

Tests 41 of 41 done Live output 142 lines

Setup 2 cores, 3.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 342 MB/s at 4k, 3.06 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 1.86 Gbit/s send, 1.78 Gbit/s receive 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 934 17 of 17Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 1,133 9 of 9Done

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