DigitalOcean DigitalOcean High CPU Droplet Official Release Intel Xeon Platinum 8168

DigitalOcean has officially released five new High CPU Droplets plans with much faster Intel Xeon processors - Intel Xeon E5-2697A Broadwell-EP 16 core / 32 thread cpu @2.60Ghz to 3.60Ghz and leap frogging the competition with the new Intel Xeon Scalable Platinum 8168 Skylake-SP 24 core / 48 thread cpu @2.70Ghz to 3.70Ghz

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Comparison of the 2 cpus at Intel® Product Specification Comparison

Introducing High CPU Droplets

@RoldanLT was playing with Intel Xeon E5-2697A based droplets at DigitalOcean - DigitalOcean High CPU Droplet VPS Servers!

 

CentminMod Benchmarking Budget Assistance indeed

 

Cheers - there's so much more vps comparison benchmarks I would eventually like to do

 

More info on new Intel Xeon Scalable Platinum Skylake-SP processors at Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family (Skylake-SP) Launch

 

FYI, since DigitalOcean High CPU droplets don't have much disk space at 20GB, you need to use DigitalOcean block storage but it isn't available in all DigitalOcean datacenter regions yet so limits availability Block Storage Comes to Singapore; Five More Datacenters on the Way!

 

Tried a DO $40 High CPU droplet in New York with 50GB block storage volume attached but had network connectivity issues as YUM was only downloading at 50-200KB/s so destroyed the droplet. Probably try later

Intel Xeon E5-2697A @2.60Ghz

Code (Text):

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 79
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
stepping        : 1
microcode       : 0x1
cpu MHz         : 2599.996
cache size      : 40960 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch arat tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt
bogomips        : 5199.99
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 79
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
stepping        : 1
microcode       : 0x1
cpu MHz         : 2599.996
cache size      : 40960 KB
physical id     : 1
siblings        : 1
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
apicid          : 1
initial apicid  : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch arat tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt
bogomips        : 5199.99
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Code (Text):

df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1      ext4       20G  1.3G   18G   7% /
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  1.4G     0  1.4G   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.4G     0  1.4G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.4G   17M  1.4G   2% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.4G     0  1.4G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs          tmpfs     285M     0  285M   0% /run/user/0
/dev/sda       ext4       50G   53M   47G   1% /mnt/volume-nyc1-01

 

Indeed especially as these new cpus have more cpu threads - dual Xeon E5-2697A would have 64 cpu threads and dual Xeon Platinum 6168 would have 96 cpu threads so they have anywhere between 2-32+ and 3-48+ VPS servers respectively on a single dual cpu VPS host node at minimum.

 

only DO knows

 

not yet been a bit busy