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New York #1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,646
Faster than 92% of 4 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
6,089
Faster than 100% of 4 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
45,204
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€54.00 EUR
96 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    UpCloud
  • Plan
    Premium 4 vCPU / 8 GB
  • Location
    New York #1
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    100 GB NVMe
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    01000000-0000-4000-8000-000030240200
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 11, 2026, 22:29:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,646 6,089 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
1,743
23rd of 106
5,234
11th of 90
Navigation
1,185
76th of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,421
39th of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,763
19th of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,891
7th of 106
7,049
12th of 90
Clang
1,221
46th of 106
5,496
17th of 90
Text Processing
1,399
30th of 106
4,836
18th of 90
Asset Compression
1,855
14th of 106
6,794
16th of 90
HDR
1,752
21st of 106
6,020
9th of 90
Photo Editor
2,681
6th of 106
9,671
1st of 90
Ray Tracer
1,203
66th of 106
4,874
25th of 90
Structure from Motion
1,838
12th of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,554
24th of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,706
21st of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,859
7th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
1,838
19th of 106
Single-core only

Rank among the 106 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 97.1 GB/s 3 5.8%
Scale higher is better 97.4 GB/s 3 6.91%
Add higher is better 101 GB/s 3 0.601%
Triad higher is better 99.1 GB/s 3 2.75%

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 2,679/s 3 3.85%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 66,967/s 3 6.32%
SHA-256 higher is better 3.79 GB/s 3 1.79%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 57.1 GB/s 3 8.48%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 19.3 GB/s 3 3.15%

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 4.02 ms 3 1.38%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 952/s 3 1.71%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 14.9 ms 3 75.6%
Requests per second, average higher is better 907/s 3 1.81%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 88.2 MB/s (22,572 IOPS) 88.4 MB/s (22,632 IOPS) 176.6 MB/s (45,204 IOPS)
64K 377.5 MB/s (6,039 IOPS) 379.5 MB/s (6,071 IOPS) 757 MB/s (12,110 IOPS)
512K 382.8 MB/s (765 IOPS) 403.1 MB/s (806 IOPS) 785.9 MB/s (1,571 IOPS)
1M 379.9 MB/s (379 IOPS) 405.2 MB/s (405 IOPS) 785.1 MB/s (784 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 977 Mbps 1.02 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 986 Mbps 1.02 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 675 Mbps 895 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 858 Mbps 1.03 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.07 Gbps 1.07 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 4,838 0.207 ms
fdatasync 3,334 0.3 ms
fsync 2,064 0.485 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,923 0.52 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 2,169 0.461 ms
fdatasync 3,997 0.25 ms
fsync 1,716 0.583 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,032 0.969 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,136 0.468 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,024 0.976 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 431 2.32 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 232 4.3 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 114 8.78 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 1,396 0.716 ms
write, close, fsync 1,527 0.655 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 2,114,847 0 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 1,003 0.636 ms 2.61 ms 7.32 ms 27.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,101 1.17 ms 4.57 ms 15 ms 47.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,847 2.95 ms 16.8 ms 44.4 ms 113 ms 0
Read only 1 44,030 0.017 ms 0.035 ms 0.106 ms 0.764 ms 0
Read only 8 169,255 0.039 ms 0.083 ms 0.132 ms 0.709 ms 0
Read only 32 176,172 0.152 ms 0.277 ms 0.416 ms 1.54 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 0.92 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) 1 954 0.694 ms 2.47 ms 5.42 ms 23.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,833 1.34 ms 4.93 ms 14 ms 64.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,520 3.76 ms 15.3 ms 44.8 ms 88 ms 0
Read only 1 26,989 0.023 ms 0.059 ms 0.194 ms 1.02 ms 0
Read only 8 131,876 0.048 ms 0.111 ms 0.212 ms 1.23 ms 0
Read only 32 127,061 0.214 ms 0.4 ms 0.599 ms 2.24 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 12.1 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 1 203 4,059 4.03 ms 9.73 ms 18 ms 0
Read/write 8 1,101 22,024 5.47 ms 14 ms 55.8 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,850 37,005 15 ms 34.3 ms 61.1 ms 0
Read only 1 1,166 18,654 0.619 ms 2.07 ms 4.41 ms 0
Read only 8 6,107 97,718 1.21 ms 2.11 ms 3.19 ms 0
Read only 32 5,247 83,958 5.77 ms 8.74 ms 12.8 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 6.7 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 125,121 113,746 0.423 ms 2.16 ms 5.95 ms
1:1 set:get 112,950 56,475 0.439 ms 2.69 ms 9.15 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 910 3,981 6,671 534 ms
Express express-postgresjs 15,653 22,982 95,815 56.5 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 14,544 23,599 114,105 38.9 ms
NestJS nestjs 10,142 13,534 56,715 86.5 ms
Nuxt nuxt 12,901 21,926 88,768 64.6 ms
FastAPI fastapi 8,167 12,813 32,969 145 ms
Django django-postgresql 3,172 3,157 8,727 230 ms
Rails rails 5,032 7,594 36,407 183 ms
Laravel laravel 1,130 1,086 2,368 329 ms
Symfony symfony 1,332 1,421 5,573 259 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 3.41 443 ms 617 ms 834 ms 0%
Shop page 3.41 620 ms 861 ms 984 ms 0%
Category page 3.41 385 ms 659 ms 963 ms 0%
Product page 3.41 433 ms 621 ms 739 ms 0%
Product search 3.41 373 ms 535 ms 596 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 3.13 1.93 s 2.22 s 2.34 s 0%
Shop page 3.13 2.46 s 2.91 s 3.02 s 0%
Category page 3.13 1.91 s 2.5 s 2.84 s 0%
Product page 3.13 1.88 s 2.28 s 2.41 s 0%
Product search 3.13 1.71 s 2.04 s 2.21 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 6.22 499 ms 707 ms 963 ms 0%
Cart 6.22 418 ms 577 ms 1.01 s 0%
Checkout 6.22 317 ms 469 ms 665 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 5.8 2 s 2.7 s 3.07 s 0%
Cart 5.8 1.79 s 2.47 s 2.89 s 0%
Checkout 5.8 1.5 s 1.99 s 2.64 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 68 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 0.991 439 ms 914 ms 1.05 s 0%
Topic JSON 0.496 228 ms 295 ms 309 ms 0%
Home page 0.496 377 ms 660 ms 762 ms 0%
Categories page 0.248 438 ms 581 ms 608 ms 0%
User activity page 0.248 284 ms 448 ms 596 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 4.52 359 ms 659 ms 1.08 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.27 178 ms 298 ms 509 ms 0%
Home page 2.25 322 ms 768 ms 904 ms 0%
Categories page 1.17 382 ms 641 ms 1.6 s 0%
User activity page 1.12 241 ms 489 ms 1.01 s 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 4.28 1.54 s 2.11 s 2.75 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.11 1.13 s 1.61 s 2.09 s 0%
Home page 2.11 1.39 s 2.04 s 2.51 s 0%
Categories page 1.06 1.6 s 2.63 s 3.7 s 0%
User activity page 1.06 1.22 s 1.65 s 1.9 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 89.3 40.5 ms 99.3 ms 171 ms 0%
Topic JSON 44.7 39.2 ms 95.7 ms 152 ms 0%
Home page 44.7 40.3 ms 99.3 ms 158 ms 0%
Categories page 22.3 39.1 ms 93.4 ms 165 ms 0%
User activity page 22.3 262 ms 409 ms 714 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 2,817 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 4.84 47.3 ms 81 ms 165 ms 0%
Post page 12.1 33.1 ms 64.5 ms 94 ms 0%
Tag page 2.43 31.7 ms 62 ms 78.2 ms 0%
Author page 2.41 31.1 ms 61.9 ms 102 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.41 37.9 ms 73 ms 100 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 7.23 130 ms 219 ms 376 ms 0%
Post page 18.1 102 ms 171 ms 245 ms 0%
Tag page 3.63 87.7 ms 160 ms 294 ms 0%
Author page 3.61 82.8 ms 147 ms 183 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.59 83.9 ms 134 ms 170 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 7.91 486 ms 668 ms 994 ms 0%
Post page 19.8 412 ms 594 ms 871 ms 0%
Tag page 3.93 265 ms 398 ms 703 ms 0%
Author page 3.95 265 ms 370 ms 465 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.95 269 ms 425 ms 568 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 2.01 49.3 ms 91.7 ms 164 ms 0%
Post editor 6.03 28.2 ms 61.7 ms 110 ms 0%
Saving a draft 6.02 80.6 ms 168 ms 223 ms 0%
Member list 2.01 53.3 ms 92 ms 133 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 3.31 56.3 ms 108 ms 157 ms 0%
Post editor 9.96 33.5 ms 81.8 ms 187 ms 0%
Saving a draft 10 289 ms 431 ms 702 ms 0%
Member list 3.33 62.5 ms 121 ms 143 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 523 MB and MySQL at 625 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 0.662 197 ms 274 ms 304 ms 0%
Blog index 0.662 790 ms 980 ms 1.75 s 0%
Blog post 1.95 53.8 ms 87.6 ms 104 ms 0%
Bread page 1.97 58 ms 103 ms 125 ms 0%
Location page 0.662 57.7 ms 90.1 ms 119 ms 0%
Site search 0.646 92 ms 149 ms 167 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 1.62 275 ms 676 ms 1.04 s 0%
Blog index 1.62 1.2 s 1.76 s 2.6 s 0%
Blog post 4.82 88 ms 193 ms 298 ms 0%
Bread page 4.86 95.9 ms 178 ms 321 ms 0%
Location page 1.63 92.5 ms 192 ms 233 ms 0%
Site search 1.6 129 ms 310 ms 585 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 1.88 942 ms 1.4 s 2.25 s 0%
Blog index 1.96 2.53 s 3.19 s 3.73 s 0%
Blog post 5.62 514 ms 917 ms 1.71 s 0%
Bread page 5.68 536 ms 952 ms 1.11 s 0%
Location page 1.9 529 ms 841 ms 987 ms 0%
Site search 1.9 604 ms 1.05 s 1.45 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.461 165 ms 220 ms 229 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.939 455 ms 640 ms 792 ms 0%
Page editor 1.38 231 ms 359 ms 526 ms 0%
Image library 0.461 117 ms 169 ms 897 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.461 60.5 ms 120 ms 144 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.882 376 ms 732 ms 834 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.8 1.03 s 1.75 s 2.04 s 0%
Page editor 2.66 514 ms 905 ms 1.01 s 0%
Image library 0.882 257 ms 563 ms 723 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.882 114 ms 325 ms 467 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. 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 291 MB, Postgres at 151 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Shared vCPU 6.4% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 8 GB 7.7 GiB
Storage 100 GB NVMe 98.3 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 9575F 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
3295 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
7.7 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
98.3 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
6.4% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-137-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Premium 4 vCPU / 8 GB
Product line
Premium
Location
New York #1
vCPU
4 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
8 GB
Storage
100 GB NVMe
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
5.12 TB
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
€54.00 EUR
Hourly price at test time
€0.080 EUR
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 11, 2026, 22:30:46 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 11, 2026, 22:29:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 11, 2026, 22:30:40 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 11, 2026, 22:30:40 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 00:04:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 00:04:00 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.13 EUR
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