DigitalOcean Droplets Ubuntu 13.10 Cloud Benchmarks DigitalOcean public cloud benchmarking of various cloud instances / droplets. Cloud benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB RAM, Disk: 158GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 79GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM, Disk: 40GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 1024 MB RAM, Disk: 30GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.00GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 512 MB RAM, Disk: 20GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB RAM, Disk: 59GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 performance2-120 - Debian Testing: Processor: 32 x Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU v4.1.5, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 16384 MB + 8188 MB RAM, Disk: 40GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.14-1-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3, File-System: btrfs, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.1.5 x264 2014-01-09 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 80.18 |=========== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 39.59 |===== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 33.68 |===== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 21.17 |=== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 13.83 |== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 18.59 |=== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 257.71 |=================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 51 |=================== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 52 |=================== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 44 |================ 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 30 |=========== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 23 |======== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 35 |============= performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 104 |====================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 45 |================= 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 31 |============ 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 19 |======= 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 11 |==== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 9 |=== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 16 |====== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 102 |====================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 65 |==================== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 66 |===================== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 58 |================== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 40 |============ 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 32 |========== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 42 |============= performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 122 |====================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 82 |======================= 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 86 |======================== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 90 |========================= 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 74 |==================== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 53 |=============== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 60 |================= performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 138 |====================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 45 |============================== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 47 |================================ 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 53 |==================================== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 56 |====================================== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 42 |============================ 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 40 |=========================== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 58 |======================================= FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 1817.94 |================ 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 2645.64 |======================== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 3552.69 |================================ 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 3802.14 |================================== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 2105.06 |=================== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 3771.19 |================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 825.84 |========================= 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 921.91 |=========================== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 1022.49 |============================== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 1072.59 |================================ 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 821.22 |======================== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 811.99 |======================== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 1140.23 |================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 3332 |========= 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 1561 |==== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 1291 |=== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 693 |== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 462 |= 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 813 |== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 13763 |==================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 5431333 |======== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 5167333 |======== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 3237500 |===== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 1680333 |== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 1122667 |== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 2239667 |=== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 22322167 |================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 50245 |========= 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 26976 |===== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 21304 |==== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 11548 |== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 7501 |= 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 10504 |== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 189257 |=================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 5019.33 |=========== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 10628.61 |====================== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 7900.69 |================= 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 4585.82 |========== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 3547.66 |======= 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 5274.27 |=========== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 15696.14 |================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 492.35 |============ 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 210.27 |===== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 155.90 |==== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 84.13 |== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 58.97 |= 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 85.23 |== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 1452.53 |================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 2000 |=================== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 2085 |==================== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 1017 |========== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 521 |===== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 766 |======= 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 1606 |=============== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 3927 |===================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 89.13 |============== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 99.77 |=============== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 97.25 |=============== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 170.04 |========================== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 225.51 |=================================== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 153.26 |======================== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 36.45 |====== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 148.24 |====== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 271.00 |========== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 349.17 |============= 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 695.93 |=========================== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 909.64 |=================================== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 552.06 |===================== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 40.80 |== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 33.48 |===== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 64.06 |========== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 99.15 |=============== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 194.40 |============================== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 228.66 |=================================== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 143.02 |====================== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 10.93 |== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 10.22 |======= 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 21.68 |============== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 27.99 |================== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 54.93 |==================================== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 43.19 |============================ performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 3.13 |== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 8.33 |======================= 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 9.23 |========================== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 8.24 |======================= 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 7.77 |====================== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 10.86 |=============================== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 12.78 |==================================== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 8.04 |======================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 21.89 |=========================== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 24.89 |=============================== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 22.33 |============================ 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 20.65 |========================== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 29.06 |==================================== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 28.65 |=================================== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 21.11 |========================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better 16GB - 8 CPUs - 160GB SSD ......... 51.69 |=============================== 8GB - 4 CPUs - 80GB SSD ........... 36.10 |====================== 2GB - 2 CPUs - 40GB SSD ........... 33.22 |==================== 1GB - 1 CPU - 30GB SSD ............ 45.02 |=========================== 512MB - 1 CPU - 20GB SSD .......... 59.25 |==================================== 4GB - 2 CPUs - 60GB SSD ........... 51.23 |=============================== performance2-120 - Debian Testing . 19.49 |============