| < 1 ns | Data transfer among CPU Registers |
| 1 - 10 ns | L1 and L2 Cache access |
| 10 - 100 ns | L3 Cache access, DRAM access(Lower limit) |
| 100 ns - 1 µs | DRAM access (Upper limit), MD5 Hash, System call |
| 1 µs - 10 µs | Copying 64 KB in memory, Context switch |
| 10 µs - 100 µs | Network Proxy, 1 MB data read from SSD |
| 100 µs - 1 ms | Intra zone network latency, SSD write delay |
| 1 ms - 10 ms | Inter zone network latency, Rotational disk seek, Memcache get |
| 10 ms - 100 ms | DNS lookup, 1GB data read from Main memory |
| 100 ms - 1 s | Bcrypt hash, TLS handshake |
| > 1 s | Transfer 1 GB over a network in same region |