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Linode Dedicated 8GB

Newark, NJ

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 22, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,216
Faster than 45% of 4 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,944
Faster than 30% of 4 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
85,625
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$72.00
41 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 21, 2026, 02:12:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,216 2,944 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
1,339
20th of 64
3,127
12th of 36
Navigation
1,113
37th of 64
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,183
23rd of 64
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,295
23rd of 64
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,177
20th of 64
3,021
14th of 36
Clang
1,086
27th of 64
2,873
18th of 36
Text Processing
1,140
22nd of 64
2,619
16th of 36
Asset Compression
1,310
16th of 64
3,328
13th of 36
HDR
1,248
17th of 64
2,439
15th of 36
Photo Editor
1,295
29th of 64
2,842
18th of 36
Ray Tracer
1,133
34th of 64
3,442
16th of 36
Structure from Motion
1,297
24th of 64
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,150
26th of 64
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,156
23rd of 64
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,355
16th of 64
Single-core only
Video Player
1,218
28th of 64
Single-core only

Rank among the 64 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.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 167 MB/s (42,756 IOPS) 167.5 MB/s (42,869 IOPS) 334.5 MB/s (85,625 IOPS)
64K 1.57 GB/s (25,774 IOPS) 1.58 GB/s (25,910 IOPS) 3.15 GB/s (51,684 IOPS)
512K 2.42 GB/s (4,962 IOPS) 2.55 GB/s (5,226 IOPS) 4.98 GB/s (10,188 IOPS)
1M 3.43 GB/s (3,507 IOPS) 3.65 GB/s (3,741 IOPS) 7.08 GB/s (7,248 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
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 5.51 Gbps 9.21 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 2.28 Gbps 3.16 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 867 Mbps 1 Gbps

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

Application workloads

PostgreSQL transactions

Measured

Durable transfers and indexed account lookups against a fixed relational dataset.

RepeatOffered / stransactions/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001005.96 / 94.320 / 0Met workload limits
1500494.634.48 / 9.570 / 967load generator fell behind
11000987.494.43 / 16.040 / 2251load generator fell behind
130002985.056.77 / 40.740 / 2686Met workload limits
21001005.56 / 7.930 / 0Met workload limits
2500494.044.48 / 15.380 / 1073load generator fell behind
21000991.724.65 / 20.430 / 1490Met workload limits
230002980.115.89 / 39.910 / 3578Met workload limits

p95 ≤ 50 ms · p99 ≤ 100 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

PostgreSQL large dataset

Failed

The same transaction mix against ten million accounts; the dataset never shrinks to fit a plan.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 100 ms · p99 ≤ 250 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis cache

Measured

A mixed cache workload with 1 KiB values, expiration, misses and eviction.

RepeatOffered / soperations/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
1100010001.57 / 2.650 / 0Met workload limits
150004998.091.79 / 12.560 / 339Met workload limits
1100009968.121.79 / 14.580 / 5724Met workload limits
12500022454.5118.21 / 25.940 / 457997load generator saturated
2100010001.6 / 5.060 / 0Met workload limits
250004999.81.7 / 100 / 29Met workload limits
2100009974.443.11 / 16.220 / 4593Met workload limits
22500019654.5921.52 / 33.550 / 962024load generator saturated

p95 ≤ 10 ms · p99 ≤ 25 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis persistent queue

Measured

Enqueue, consume and acknowledge payloads with append-only persistence.

RepeatOffered / sjobs/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001004.11 / 33.550 / 0Met workload limits
15005002.87 / 25.150 / 0Met workload limits
11000999.993.96 / 39.510 / 0Met workload limits
130002994.8225.94 / 58.720 / 929latency limit exceeded
21001003.87 / 4.940 / 0Met workload limits
25005002.95 / 20.010 / 0Met workload limits
21000999.993.07 / 19.590 / 0Met workload limits
230002996.1717.46 / 58.120 / 683latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 20 ms · p99 ≤ 50 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Discourse community

Measured

Signed-in reading, search, posting and replies in a populated Rails forum.

RepeatOffered / sjourneys/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
121.96227.81 / 298.338 / 0error limit exceeded
154.69184.66 / 301.3256 / 0error limit exceeded
1109.19190.29 / 316.74146 / 0error limit exceeded
12522.591343.85 / 1529.57419 / 0error limit exceeded
221.96208.21 / 298.338 / 0error limit exceeded
254.69186.52 / 307.456 / 0error limit exceeded
2109.19186.52 / 313.6146 / 0error limit exceeded
22522.254350.08 / 4572.03425 / 0latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1500 ms · p99 ≤ 3000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n workflows

Measured

Webhook, transformation, branching and a verified final response.

RepeatOffered / sworkflows/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
15524.89 / 48.430 / 0Met workload limits
1202025.15 / 307.40 / 0Met workload limits
1505020.01 / 717.50 / 0Met workload limits
110080.713709.69 / 4097.910 / 3305latency limit exceeded
25525.67 / 35.310 / 0Met workload limits
2202022.2 / 29.360 / 0Met workload limits
2505021.52 / 599.680 / 0Met workload limits
210080.183672.95 / 4393.590 / 3408latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n queue workers

Measured

Completed queued workflows including waiting time and worker execution.

RepeatOffered / sworkflows/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
15532.2 / 420 / 0Met workload limits
1202030.27 / 420 / 0Met workload limits
1505035.31 / 91.520 / 0Met workload limits
110081.293425.76 / 3784.280 / 3156latency limit exceeded
25533.2 / 39.110 / 0Met workload limits
2202029.66 / 39.510 / 0Met workload limits
2505034.24 / 76.350 / 0Met workload limits
210080.143425.76 / 3529.590 / 3361latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Ghost publishing

Measured

Readers, authenticated draft creation, publishing and image uploads.

RepeatOffered / sjourneys/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
155336.29 / 382.870 / 0Met workload limits
12020390.58 / 431.550 / 0Met workload limits
15041.167013.92 / 7013.92807 / 557latency limit exceeded
110041.857013.92 / 7013.92837 / 9387latency limit exceeded
255336.29 / 382.870 / 0Met workload limits
22020398.45 / 440.250 / 0Met workload limits
25040.427013.92 / 7013.92779 / 723latency limit exceeded
210041.927013.92 / 7013.92828 / 9405latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Formbricks / Next.js

Failed

Public survey rendering, persisted responses and authenticated analysis.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

GitHub self-hosted runner

Failed

A pinned build and test workflow with separate cold and warm dependency caches.

ValueError: set RUNNER_BENCHMARK_REPOSITORY and RUNNER_BENCHMARK_REVISION to the repository and commit hosting benchmark-runner.yml

p95 ≤ 3600000 ms · p99 ≤ 3600000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Odoo Community sales

Failed

Customer lookup, sales order confirmation, stock operations and reporting.

RuntimeError: fixture command in rc-odoo failed: -packages/odoo/cli/shell.py", line 148, in shell self.console(local_vars) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/cli/shell.py", line 82, in console exec(sys.stdin.read(), local_vars) File "<string>", line 1, in <module> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/rc-seed.py'

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% 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% 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 22, 2026, 09:04:27 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 21, 2026, 02:12:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 22, 2026, 09:03:36 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 22, 2026, 09:03:36 UTC
Completed
Oct 22, 2026, 13:46:37 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 22, 2026, 13:46:37 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.51
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