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Newark, NJ

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 10, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
967
Faster than 30% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,720
Faster than 38% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
56,046
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$24.00
72 multi-core points per dollar
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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 10, 2026, 19:55:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 967 1,720 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
1,161
42nd of 70
1,710
48th of 62
Navigation
1,113
55th of 70
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
868
61st of 70
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
997
57th of 70
Single-core only
Photo Library
996
43rd of 70
1,614
48th of 62
Clang
924
58th of 70
1,829
47th of 62
Text Processing
833
60th of 70
1,693
47th of 62
Asset Compression
1,107
48th of 70
1,926
47th of 62
HDR
781
61st of 70
1,685
46th of 62
Photo Editor
449
69th of 70
1,429
53rd of 62
Ray Tracer
976
53rd of 70
1,937
47th of 62
Structure from Motion
1,098
55th of 70
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,196
38th of 70
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,036
45th of 70
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,201
45th of 70
Single-core only
Video Player
1,104
46th of 70
Single-core only

Rank among the 70 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 37.2 GB/s 3 13.4%
Scale higher is better 27.9 GB/s 3 12.9%
Add higher is better 30.8 GB/s 3 18.4%
Triad higher is better 30.5 GB/s 3 18.4%

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 397/s 3 13.1%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 27,305/s 3 4.34%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.31 GB/s 3 1.3%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 6.34 GB/s 3 3.08%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 3.35 GB/s 3 8.48%

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 4.44 ms 3 2.17%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 442/s 3 1.51%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 23 ms 3 42.9%
Requests per second, average higher is better 384/s 3 1.27%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 109.3 MB/s (27,986 IOPS) 109.6 MB/s (28,060 IOPS) 218.9 MB/s (56,046 IOPS)
64K 1.1 GB/s (18,086 IOPS) 1.11 GB/s (18,181 IOPS) 2.21 GB/s (36,267 IOPS)
512K 1.95 GB/s (3,997 IOPS) 2.06 GB/s (4,210 IOPS) 4.01 GB/s (8,207 IOPS)
1M 2.17 GB/s (2,221 IOPS) 2.31 GB/s (2,369 IOPS) 4.48 GB/s (4,590 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 2.47 Gbps 2.58 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 3.02 Gbps 3.15 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 793 Mbps 877 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.13 Gbps 3.41 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 4.41 Gbps 7.36 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 9,242 0.108 ms
fdatasync 5,882 0.17 ms
fsync 3,226 0.31 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,488 0.402 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 4,519 0.221 ms
fdatasync 4,739 0.211 ms
fsync 2,863 0.349 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,514 0.661 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,833 0.353 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,677 0.596 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 895 1.12 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 341 2.93 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 145 6.91 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,893 0.346 ms
write, close, fsync 2,959 0.338 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 492,205 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 1,128 0.783 ms 1.33 ms 3.18 ms 10.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,970 2.27 ms 4.73 ms 10.8 ms 47.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,864 8.19 ms 27.7 ms 50.5 ms 124 ms 0
Read only 1 14,851 0.063 ms 0.098 ms 0.129 ms 0.259 ms 0
Read only 8 33,043 0.209 ms 0.365 ms 0.489 ms 2.23 ms 0
Read only 32 35,004 0.718 ms 1.43 ms 2.09 ms 8.22 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2 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 1,003 0.87 ms 1.49 ms 3.31 ms 11.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,527 2.72 ms 5.36 ms 11.9 ms 42 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,012 9.42 ms 18.8 ms 30.4 ms 66.1 ms 0
Read only 1 8,194 0.097 ms 0.189 ms 0.604 ms 2.3 ms 0
Read only 8 24,729 0.284 ms 0.51 ms 0.812 ms 2.64 ms 0
Read only 32 26,307 1 ms 2.06 ms 3.08 ms 13 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 21.1 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 1 228 4,565 3.89 ms 7.43 ms 13 ms 0
Read/write 8 527 10,547 14.7 ms 24.8 ms 38.9 ms 0
Read/write 32 562 11,231 53.9 ms 99.3 ms 137 ms 0
Read only 1 564 9,020 1.7 ms 2.48 ms 4.57 ms 0
Read only 8 1,118 17,883 6.55 ms 11 ms 16.1 ms 0
Read only 32 1,025 16,405 29.2 ms 41.9 ms 57.9 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 11.2 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 42,465 38,604 1.01 ms 4.96 ms 16.5 ms
1:1 set:get 41,661 20,830 1.18 ms 4.67 ms 11.8 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 441 1,525 2,591 945 ms
Express express-postgresjs 6,362 8,873 22,108 325 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 6,042 7,879 21,562 81.1 ms
NestJS nestjs 3,385 3,602 12,505 130 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,885 7,854 20,829 549 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,474 3,368 13,773 525 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,474 1,560 3,930 250 ms
Rails rails 2,126 2,779 9,160 221 ms
Laravel laravel 574 562 1,120 827 ms
Symfony symfony 716 768 2,588 666 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 1.61 940 ms 1.25 s 1.48 s 0%
Shop page 1.61 1.26 s 1.84 s 2.03 s 0%
Category page 1.61 851 ms 1.35 s 1.54 s 0%
Product page 1.61 868 ms 1.22 s 1.4 s 0%
Product search 1.61 736 ms 1.01 s 1.05 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.79 3.49 s 3.93 s 4.01 s 0%
Shop page 1.79 4.56 s 5.66 s 6.15 s 0%
Category page 1.64 4.18 s 5.47 s 5.55 s 0%
Product page 1.36 3.71 s 4.22 s 4.36 s 0%
Product search 1.36 3.36 s 3.77 s 3.86 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.81 1.15 s 1.44 s 1.69 s 0%
Cart 2.81 904 ms 1.16 s 1.53 s 0%
Checkout 2.81 695 ms 981 ms 1.15 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.02 3.45 s 4.54 s 4.62 s 0%
Cart 3.02 3.91 s 4.61 s 4.84 s 0%
Checkout 3.02 2.85 s 3.67 s 4.04 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 64 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 2.5% 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 7542 32-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2900 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
2.5% 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 10, 2026, 19:58:02 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 10, 2026, 19:55:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 10, 2026, 19:56:55 UTC
Completed
Oct 10, 2026, 21:19:02 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 10, 2026, 21:19:02 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.050
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