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Newark, NJ

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 17, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,073
Faster than 46% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,020 over 2 runs in 90 days
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,082
Faster than 49% of 2 vCPU plans
Median here: 1,901 over 2 runs in 90 days
Disk 4K IOPS
85,493
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 70,770 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$24.00
87 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Linode 4GB
  • Location
    Newark, NJ
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 17, 2026, 19:55:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,073 2,082 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
1,236
125th of 241
2,181
102nd of 166
Navigation
1,162
156th of 241
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
882
178th of 241
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
978
186th of 241
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,034
134th of 241
1,814
117th of 166
Clang
1,009
154th of 241
1,971
115th of 166
Text Processing
1,077
125th of 241
1,820
121st of 166
Asset Compression
1,246
117th of 241
2,429
103rd of 166
HDR
1,180
109th of 241
2,325
91st of 166
Photo Editor
530
228th of 241
1,908
115th of 166
Ray Tracer
1,094
139th of 241
2,307
111th of 166
Structure from Motion
1,149
154th of 241
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,144
130th of 241
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,173
121st of 241
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,317
103rd of 241
Single-core only
Video Player
1,283
123rd of 241
Single-core only

Rank among the 241 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 53.1 GB/s 3 19.9%
Scale higher is better 40.8 GB/s 3 17.3%
Add higher is better 43.1 GB/s 3 16.7%
Triad higher is better 45.2 GB/s 3 23.1%

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 401/s 3 2.25%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 26,805/s 3 1.03%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.4 GB/s 3 12.7%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 7.16 GB/s 3 0.545%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 4.06 GB/s 3 0.572%

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 4.96 ms 3 0.186%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 396/s 3 0.386%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 14.3 ms 3 47.7%
Requests per second, average higher is better 386/s 3 1.19%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 166.8 MB/s (42,690 IOPS) 167.2 MB/s (42,803 IOPS) 334 MB/s (85,493 IOPS)
64K 1.67 GB/s (27,348 IOPS) 1.68 GB/s (27,492 IOPS) 3.35 GB/s (54,840 IOPS)
512K 2.29 GB/s (4,699 IOPS) 2.42 GB/s (4,949 IOPS) 4.71 GB/s (9,648 IOPS)
1M 2.95 GB/s (3,016 IOPS) 3.14 GB/s (3,217 IOPS) 6.09 GB/s (6,233 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 9,741 0.103 ms
fdatasync 5,291 0.189 ms
fsync 2,963 0.337 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,661 0.273 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 4,794 0.209 ms
fdatasync 4,762 0.21 ms
fsync 3,023 0.331 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,850 0.54 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 3,066 0.326 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,055 0.948 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 932 1.07 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 340 2.94 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 168 5.95 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 3,055 0.327 ms
write, close, fsync 3,011 0.332 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 383,612 0.003 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 1,297 0.729 ms 1.01 ms 1.24 ms 3.19 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,212 2.29 ms 4.13 ms 5.64 ms 9.42 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,178 8.03 ms 22.7 ms 37.7 ms 62.9 ms 0
Read only 1 13,852 0.06 ms 0.108 ms 0.272 ms 0.337 ms 0
Read only 8 34,747 0.175 ms 0.439 ms 0.715 ms 1.19 ms 0
Read only 32 35,602 0.648 ms 1.42 ms 2.11 ms 3.41 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.8 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 1,080 0.875 ms 1.29 ms 1.74 ms 3.51 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,757 2.73 ms 4.64 ms 6.48 ms 11.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,436 8.58 ms 15.2 ms 20.8 ms 36.4 ms 0
Read only 1 8,395 0.094 ms 0.29 ms 0.456 ms 1.7 ms 0
Read only 8 24,060 0.267 ms 0.638 ms 1.05 ms 2.41 ms 0
Read only 32 28,620 0.907 ms 1.76 ms 2.61 ms 5.19 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 17.4 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 1 273 5,457 3.36 ms 5.57 ms 9.06 ms 0
Read/write 8 603 12,062 13 ms 21.5 ms 28.2 ms 0
Read/write 32 636 12,715 48.3 ms 84.5 ms 113 ms 0
Read only 1 620 9,926 1.55 ms 2.18 ms 2.71 ms 0
Read only 8 1,263 20,208 5.99 ms 9.56 ms 12.1 ms 0
Read only 32 1,185 18,955 25.7 ms 38.9 ms 49.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 8.4 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 42,979 39,071 1.08 ms 3.98 ms 6.5 ms
1:1 set:get 43,827 21,913 1.06 ms 3.82 ms 5.79 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 2 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 541 1,770 2,423 964 ms
Express express-postgresjs 6,288 8,380 19,551 84.5 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 6,306 9,331 22,816 81.7 ms
NestJS nestjs 3,663 3,828 12,385 168 ms
Nuxt nuxt 5,622 8,273 22,669 91.8 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,767 3,279 13,997 415 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,435 1,531 3,488 399 ms
Rails rails 2,226 2,954 9,868 152 ms
Laravel laravel 596 619 1,166 467 ms
Symfony symfony 781 846 2,266 375 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.

Web apps

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.82 867 ms 1.05 s 1.16 s 0%
Shop page 1.82 1.19 s 1.44 s 1.55 s 0%
Category page 1.82 737 ms 1.2 s 1.27 s 0%
Product page 1.82 775 ms 1.01 s 1.13 s 0%
Product search 1.82 706 ms 967 ms 1.08 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.89 3.13 s 3.49 s 3.61 s 0%
Shop page 1.89 4.08 s 4.96 s 5.14 s 0%
Category page 1.89 3.58 s 4.46 s 4.69 s 0%
Product page 1.89 3.08 s 3.3 s 3.42 s 0%
Product search 1.89 2.82 s 3.09 s 3.14 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 3.62 890 ms 1.07 s 1.22 s 0%
Cart 3.62 744 ms 868 ms 965 ms 0%
Checkout 3.62 569 ms 685 ms 882 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.58 2.91 s 3.7 s 3.96 s 0%
Cart 3.58 3.27 s 3.73 s 3.92 s 0%
Checkout 3.58 2.48 s 3.09 s 3.38 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 1.68 260 ms 455 ms 621 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.841 129 ms 157 ms 166 ms 0%
Home page 0.841 234 ms 317 ms 353 ms 0%
Categories page 0.429 267 ms 360 ms 582 ms 0%
User activity page 0.412 171 ms 275 ms 326 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 3.09 544 ms 764 ms 1.11 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.57 290 ms 382 ms 584 ms 0%
Home page 1.54 501 ms 814 ms 1.46 s 0%
Categories page 0.802 593 ms 901 ms 1.52 s 0%
User activity page 0.769 365 ms 500 ms 772 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 3.12 1.71 s 2.27 s 2.49 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.52 1.47 s 1.95 s 2.28 s 0%
Home page 1.55 1.72 s 2.3 s 2.46 s 0%
Categories page 0.785 1.71 s 2.31 s 2.48 s 0%
User activity page 0.817 1.56 s 2.11 s 2.31 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 69.5 66.7 ms 153 ms 192 ms 0%
Topic JSON 34.8 64.4 ms 151 ms 201 ms 0%
Home page 34.8 66.9 ms 154 ms 195 ms 0%
Categories page 17.4 67.1 ms 153 ms 208 ms 0%
User activity page 17.4 206 ms 300 ms 392 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 62 s per level, after a 22 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Discourse ran with 4 app workers and 1024 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 4 GB box. It added a 2 GB swapfile first, the way its installer does, and didn't need it. The container peaked at 2,431 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 6.93 39.7 ms 50 ms 66.2 ms 0%
Post page 17.3 21.6 ms 30 ms 38.6 ms 0%
Tag page 3.46 27.5 ms 37.3 ms 44.9 ms 0%
Author page 3.45 27.4 ms 35.5 ms 44.1 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.45 34.8 ms 44.8 ms 52.8 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 8.46 120 ms 160 ms 192 ms 0%
Post page 21.1 88.8 ms 124 ms 151 ms 0%
Tag page 4.25 78.8 ms 116 ms 138 ms 0%
Author page 4.21 78.8 ms 112 ms 126 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.2 85.2 ms 117 ms 126 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 8.21 489 ms 626 ms 683 ms 0%
Post page 20.5 410 ms 536 ms 599 ms 0%
Tag page 4.1 263 ms 353 ms 398 ms 0%
Author page 4.06 266 ms 367 ms 409 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.08 274 ms 370 ms 440 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.78 40 ms 58.4 ms 80.8 ms 0%
Post editor 11.4 15.3 ms 22.9 ms 32 ms 0%
Saving a draft 11.4 36.7 ms 49.3 ms 62.8 ms 0%
Member list 3.8 46.4 ms 60.2 ms 80.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.75 53.2 ms 72.8 ms 90.1 ms 0%
Post editor 14.3 27.3 ms 38.3 ms 52.7 ms 0%
Saving a draft 14.3 204 ms 270 ms 317 ms 0%
Member list 4.76 59.6 ms 79 ms 107 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 298 MB and MySQL at 622 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.43 94.6 ms 112 ms 120 ms 0%
Blog index 1.41 314 ms 346 ms 455 ms 0%
Blog post 4.24 30 ms 45.9 ms 51.3 ms 0%
Bread page 4.24 32.6 ms 42.8 ms 49.1 ms 0%
Location page 1.41 31.3 ms 42.9 ms 46.1 ms 0%
Site search 1.41 49.1 ms 84.5 ms 89.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.36 241 ms 331 ms 360 ms 0%
Blog index 2.41 822 ms 1.14 s 1.24 s 0%
Blog post 7.08 67.6 ms 116 ms 144 ms 0%
Bread page 7.13 74.9 ms 111 ms 131 ms 0%
Location page 2.41 73.7 ms 112 ms 119 ms 0%
Site search 2.35 112 ms 221 ms 290 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.62 718 ms 1.01 s 1.25 s 0%
Blog index 2.71 1.71 s 2.09 s 2.32 s 0%
Blog post 7.92 395 ms 654 ms 844 ms 0%
Bread page 7.95 402 ms 651 ms 835 ms 0%
Location page 2.66 385 ms 592 ms 692 ms 0%
Site search 2.64 467 ms 702 ms 836 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.512 107 ms 136 ms 142 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.04 457 ms 579 ms 664 ms 0%
Page editor 1.55 219 ms 281 ms 349 ms 0%
Image library 0.512 82 ms 211 ms 793 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.512 45 ms 104 ms 114 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.869 296 ms 619 ms 776 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.75 993 ms 1.78 s 1.96 s 0%
Page editor 2.67 512 ms 901 ms 1.12 s 0%
Image library 0.902 273 ms 598 ms 705 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.869 110 ms 264 ms 350 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 s per level, after a 20 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 161 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 80 GB SSD 78.2 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
2
CPU frequency
2000 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
496 MiB
Disk reported
78.2 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
Linode 4GB
Product line
Shared CPU
Location
Newark, NJ
vCPU
2 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
80 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
4 Gbps
Transfer
4 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$24.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.036
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 17, 2026, 19:57:43 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 17, 2026, 19:55:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 17, 2026, 19:56:51 UTC
Completed
Oct 17, 2026, 21:35:18 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 17, 2026, 21:35:18 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.060
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