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Linode Dedicated 8GB

Newark, NJ

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 14, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,192
Faster than 60% of 4 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,203 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,694
Faster than 15% of 4 vCPU plans
Median here: 2,732 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
92,376
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 82,478 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$72.00
37 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Dedicated 8GB
  • Location
    Newark, NJ
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    160 GB SSD
  • Network
    5 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 14, 2026, 02:11:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,192 2,694 Geekbench Browser

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
1,191
77th of 150
3,127
36th of 113
Navigation
1,157
97th of 150
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,181
67th of 150
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,294
74th of 150
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,167
66th of 150
2,534
54th of 113
Clang
1,038
95th of 150
2,662
51st of 113
Text Processing
1,084
72nd of 150
2,438
52nd of 113
Asset Compression
1,310
65th of 150
3,254
48th of 113
HDR
1,314
56th of 150
2,500
51st of 113
Photo Editor
1,065
92nd of 150
2,085
70th of 113
Ray Tracer
1,048
93rd of 150
3,185
48th of 113
Structure from Motion
1,290
75th of 150
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,115
83rd of 150
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,200
66th of 150
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,355
60th of 150
Single-core only
Video Player
1,332
70th of 150
Single-core only

Rank among the 150 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.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 44.5 GB/s 3 0.293%
Scale higher is better 29.5 GB/s 3 2.4%
Add higher is better 31.3 GB/s 3 1.88%
Triad higher is better 31.6 GB/s 3 1.26%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 443/s 3 1.17%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 28,795/s 3 1.58%
SHA-256 higher is better 2.33 GB/s 3 0.26%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 7.35 GB/s 3 0.274%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 5.05 GB/s 3 0.881%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 10.5 ms 3 1.32%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 380/s 3 1.3%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 19.1 ms 3 4.51%
Requests per second, average higher is better 375/s 3 1.14%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 180.2 MB/s (46,127 IOPS) 180.7 MB/s (46,249 IOPS) 360.8 MB/s (92,376 IOPS)
64K 1.46 GB/s (23,977 IOPS) 1.47 GB/s (24,104 IOPS) 2.93 GB/s (48,081 IOPS)
512K 3.27 GB/s (6,705 IOPS) 3.45 GB/s (7,062 IOPS) 6.72 GB/s (13,767 IOPS)
1M 3.51 GB/s (3,597 IOPS) 3.75 GB/s (3,836 IOPS) 7.26 GB/s (7,433 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

iperf3 didn't report network results for this run.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 10,011 0.1 ms
fdatasync 5,663 0.177 ms
fsync 3,893 0.257 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,215 0.237 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 5,266 0.19 ms
fdatasync 5,060 0.198 ms
fsync 3,330 0.3 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,132 0.469 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 3,866 0.259 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,137 0.468 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,149 0.87 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 386 2.59 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 184 5.44 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 3,670 0.272 ms
write, close, fsync 2,205 0.454 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 499,285 0.002 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,392 0.65 ms 0.954 ms 1.26 ms 3.91 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,410 1.29 ms 2.53 ms 3.81 ms 16.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,843 5.04 ms 16.1 ms 27.7 ms 50.2 ms 0
Read only 1 16,680 0.053 ms 0.08 ms 0.23 ms 0.284 ms 0
Read only 8 62,677 0.109 ms 0.254 ms 0.365 ms 0.595 ms 0
Read only 32 66,663 0.403 ms 0.71 ms 1.03 ms 1.7 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.59 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,230 0.716 ms 1.08 ms 1.78 ms 9.75 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,568 1.34 ms 2.15 ms 3.21 ms 8.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 6,161 4.79 ms 8.09 ms 11.4 ms 40.4 ms 0
Read only 1 12,890 0.068 ms 0.112 ms 0.248 ms 0.335 ms 0
Read only 8 52,748 0.133 ms 0.276 ms 0.397 ms 0.787 ms 0
Read only 32 54,856 0.512 ms 0.886 ms 1.36 ms 2.69 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 26.4 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 280 5,599 3.3 ms 4.49 ms 7.84 ms 0
Read/write 8 936 18,718 8.13 ms 13.2 ms 19 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,137 22,738 27.2 ms 47.5 ms 61.1 ms 0
Read only 1 665 10,646 1.34 ms 1.96 ms 2.35 ms 0
Read only 8 2,395 38,313 3.25 ms 4.65 ms 5.77 ms 0
Read only 32 2,232 35,710 14 ms 18.3 ms 21.5 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 6.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 50,791 46,173 1.2 ms 2.29 ms 2.93 ms
1:1 set:get 49,611 24,805 1.23 ms 2.34 ms 2.93 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 4 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
Next.js nextjs 668 2,611 4,024 566 ms
Express express-postgresjs 9,677 12,439 35,876 56 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 9,782 13,621 42,123 52.6 ms
NestJS nestjs 5,399 6,210 21,488 82.2 ms
Nuxt nuxt 8,385 11,577 29,819 68.8 ms
FastAPI fastapi 4,379 5,567 16,485 373 ms
Django django-postgresql 2,329 2,636 6,111 330 ms
Rails rails 3,547 4,840 18,007 103 ms
Laravel laravel 948 1,020 1,959 288 ms
Symfony symfony 1,198 1,326 3,595 228 ms

Peak requests per second across the 64 and 256 connection levels, measured with wrk. Each test has to pass the TechEmpower response checks first, or it's marked invalid.

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 2.65 604 ms 752 ms 837 ms 0%
Shop page 2.65 800 ms 1.03 s 1.08 s 0%
Category page 2.65 527 ms 849 ms 886 ms 0%
Product page 2.65 533 ms 720 ms 777 ms 0%
Product search 2.65 487 ms 649 ms 693 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.61 2.29 s 2.58 s 2.69 s 0%
Shop page 2.61 3.02 s 3.44 s 3.5 s 0%
Category page 2.61 2.39 s 3.21 s 3.36 s 0%
Product page 2.61 2.21 s 2.44 s 2.52 s 0%
Product search 2.61 2.07 s 2.33 s 2.41 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 5.07 617 ms 822 ms 1.99 s 0%
Cart 5.07 513 ms 679 ms 760 ms 0%
Checkout 5.07 407 ms 545 ms 580 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 5.05 2.3 s 2.74 s 2.82 s 0%
Cart 5.05 2.21 s 2.49 s 2.6 s 0%
Checkout 5.05 1.72 s 2.03 s 2.15 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 66 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Discourse

Signed in

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Topic page 1.82 247 ms 335 ms 623 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.91 125 ms 151 ms 157 ms 0%
Home page 0.91 216 ms 249 ms 416 ms 0%
Categories page 0.463 251 ms 268 ms 498 ms 0%
User activity page 0.447 154 ms 175 ms 197 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 4.83 368 ms 424 ms 860 ms 0%
Topic JSON 2.42 191 ms 231 ms 446 ms 0%
Home page 2.41 331 ms 441 ms 790 ms 0%
Categories page 1.25 381 ms 424 ms 607 ms 0%
User activity page 1.19 221 ms 333 ms 514 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 3.77 1.73 s 2.14 s 2.82 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.9 1.29 s 1.6 s 1.88 s 0%
Home page 1.92 1.62 s 1.94 s 3.2 s 0%
Categories page 0.925 1.74 s 2.28 s 3.43 s 0%
User activity page 0.958 1.32 s 1.77 s 2.17 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 84.8 44.6 ms 95.1 ms 141 ms 0%
Topic JSON 42.4 41.5 ms 91 ms 149 ms 0%
Home page 42.5 45.5 ms 95.7 ms 148 ms 0%
Categories page 21.2 43.6 ms 97.7 ms 162 ms 0%
User activity page 21.3 275 ms 433 ms 633 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 s per level, after a 21 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Discourse ran with 8 app workers and 2048 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 8 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 2,627 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 7.35 40.6 ms 45.6 ms 53.1 ms 0%
Post page 18.3 21.2 ms 24.6 ms 27.8 ms 0%
Tag page 3.66 25.8 ms 28.6 ms 29.6 ms 0%
Author page 3.66 27 ms 30.8 ms 37.7 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.66 26.6 ms 33.3 ms 34.8 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 8.61 128 ms 154 ms 166 ms 0%
Post page 21.5 85.6 ms 115 ms 131 ms 0%
Tag page 4.31 73.4 ms 103 ms 113 ms 0%
Author page 4.31 81.3 ms 105 ms 116 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.26 82.9 ms 111 ms 123 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 8.91 454 ms 530 ms 564 ms 0%
Post page 22.3 379 ms 450 ms 469 ms 0%
Tag page 4.45 248 ms 307 ms 327 ms 0%
Author page 4.45 248 ms 294 ms 307 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.45 258 ms 312 ms 332 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 4.07 35.6 ms 41.3 ms 51.1 ms 0%
Post editor 12.2 15 ms 18.2 ms 20.9 ms 0%
Saving a draft 12.2 36.4 ms 44.8 ms 59.5 ms 0%
Member list 4.07 44 ms 52.1 ms 61.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 5.12 49.7 ms 58 ms 71.6 ms 0%
Post editor 15.4 27 ms 32.8 ms 42.9 ms 0%
Saving a draft 15.4 191 ms 236 ms 256 ms 0%
Member list 5.13 55.8 ms 66.3 ms 70.2 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 s per level, after a 20 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Ghost ran the way its ghost-docker setup runs it: one Node process, and MySQL with its stock 128 MB buffer pool. Memory peaked with Ghost at 518 MB and MySQL at 625 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.53 89.2 ms 99 ms 113 ms 0%
Blog index 1.51 297 ms 327 ms 335 ms 0%
Blog post 4.54 28.5 ms 43.3 ms 46 ms 0%
Bread page 4.54 31.6 ms 34.6 ms 36.8 ms 0%
Location page 1.51 30.2 ms 33.9 ms 35.9 ms 0%
Site search 1.51 45 ms 75.5 ms 87 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.51 228 ms 330 ms 354 ms 0%
Blog index 2.53 803 ms 1.11 s 1.26 s 0%
Blog post 7.51 58.5 ms 97.5 ms 131 ms 0%
Bread page 7.54 65.8 ms 98.8 ms 114 ms 0%
Location page 2.53 66 ms 94.7 ms 106 ms 0%
Site search 2.5 103 ms 223 ms 241 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.7 684 ms 939 ms 1.02 s 0%
Blog index 2.75 1.85 s 2.21 s 2.31 s 0%
Blog post 8.09 386 ms 598 ms 760 ms 0%
Bread page 8.13 383 ms 597 ms 675 ms 0%
Location page 2.7 371 ms 604 ms 762 ms 0%
Site search 2.72 448 ms 713 ms 772 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.562 101 ms 113 ms 123 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.16 429 ms 514 ms 581 ms 0%
Page editor 1.7 199 ms 258 ms 327 ms 0%
Image library 0.562 72.6 ms 87.8 ms 662 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.562 40.8 ms 87.6 ms 93.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.867 309 ms 639 ms 685 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.78 1.08 s 1.68 s 1.9 s 0%
Page editor 2.63 551 ms 903 ms 1.03 s 0%
Image library 0.883 237 ms 546 ms 630 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.867 120 ms 313 ms 372 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 21 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Wagtail ran the way bakerydemo ships it: uWSGI with 2 workers of 4 threads each, whatever the box, and Postgres and Redis on stock settings. Memory peaked with Wagtail at 296 MB, Postgres at 151 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.8 GiB
Storage 160 GB SSD 156.9 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
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
2000 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
7.8 GiB
Swap reported
496 MiB
Disk reported
156.9 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-134-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Dedicated 8GB
Product line
Dedicated CPU
Location
Newark, NJ
vCPU
4 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
160 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
5 Gbps
Transfer
5 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$72.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.11
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 14, 2026, 02:12:59 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 14, 2026, 02:11:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 14, 2026, 02:12:48 UTC
Completed
Oct 14, 2026, 03:47:37 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 14, 2026, 03:47:37 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.17
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