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Linode Linode 8GB

Fremont, CA

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 21, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
893
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,735
Disk 4K IOPS
39,676
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$48.00
57 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Linode 8GB
  • Location
    Fremont, CA
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    160 GB SSD
  • Network
    5 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 20, 2026, 01:54:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 893 2,735 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
1,018
26th of 40
2,527
13th of 23
Navigation
983
28th of 40
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
822
33rd of 40
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
955
33rd of 40
Single-core only
Photo Library
827
28th of 40
2,451
14th of 23
Clang
872
32nd of 40
3,100
13th of 23
Text Processing
746
34th of 40
2,741
12th of 23
Asset Compression
893
31st of 40
3,252
11th of 23
HDR
629
36th of 40
2,143
14th of 23
Photo Editor
1,126
27th of 40
2,341
15th of 23
Ray Tracer
900
31st of 40
3,645
11th of 23
Structure from Motion
1,073
31st of 40
Single-core only
Game Physics
914
31st of 40
Single-core only
Video Encoder
819
33rd of 40
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,011
29th of 40
Single-core only
Video Player
841
31st of 40
Single-core only

Rank among the 40 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 77.4 MB/s (19,812 IOPS) 77.6 MB/s (19,864 IOPS) 155 MB/s (39,676 IOPS)
64K 804.8 MB/s (12,877 IOPS) 809.1 MB/s (12,944 IOPS) 1.58 GB/s (25,821 IOPS)
512K 1.26 GB/s (2,572 IOPS) 1.32 GB/s (2,709 IOPS) 2.58 GB/s (5,281 IOPS)
1M 1.09 GB/s (1,118 IOPS) 1.17 GB/s (1,193 IOPS) 2.26 GB/s (2,311 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, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 5.39 Gbps 8.27 Gbps
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 1.21 Gbps 1.52 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 960 Mbps 1.33 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
11001005.89 / 8.380 / 0Met workload limits
1500496.195.49 / 31.870 / 686Met workload limits
11000992.465.56 / 39.910 / 1356Met workload limits
130002932.175.96 / 136.750 / 12206latency limit exceeded
21001005.89 / 8.760 / 0Met workload limits
2500494.145.3 / 89.690 / 1055load generator fell behind
21000977.2614.28 / 182.820 / 4092load generator fell behind
230002910.967 / 168.760 / 16019latency limit exceeded

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
1100010001.81 / 3.910 / 0Met workload limits
150004992.511.79 / 13.110 / 1343Met workload limits
1100009841.421.73 / 30.270 / 27731latency limit exceeded
12500023132.4615.54 / 24.630 / 336136load generator saturated
2100010001.7 / 3.820 / 0Met workload limits
250004994.462.76 / 19.390 / 993Met workload limits
2100009846.911.76 / 33.890 / 27543latency limit exceeded
22500022876.5415.54 / 24.890 / 381984load 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 / 6.460 / 0Met workload limits
15005003.82 / 30.590 / 0Met workload limits
11000991.997.24 / 310.480 / 1441latency limit exceeded
130002933.94.65 / 139.520 / 11894latency limit exceeded
21001004.7 / 7.750 / 0Met workload limits
25005003.82 / 20.430 / 0Met workload limits
21000999.763.91 / 48.920 / 43Met workload limits
230002925.164.65 / 165.410 / 12773latency 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
121.96332.95 / 576.248 / 0error limit exceeded
154.69353.5 / 1145.9256 / 0error limit exceeded
1109.16739.27 / 2001.3146 / 0error limit exceeded
12522.576944.46 / 7671.11432 / 0latency limit exceeded
221.96360.62 / 754.158 / 0error limit exceeded
254.69431.55 / 1317.3556 / 0error limit exceeded
2109.191192.49 / 2210.79146 / 0error limit exceeded
22522.344526.75 / 5050.46421 / 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
15575.58 / 122.470 / 0Met workload limits
1202050.95 / 1740.930 / 0Met workload limits
15049.943746.8 / 5000.450 / 11latency limit exceeded
110058.56875.7 / 7013.92490 / 6823latency limit exceeded
25563.02 / 120.030 / 0Met workload limits
22020259.4 / 1440.860 / 0Met workload limits
25049.473860.36 / 4437.530 / 0latency limit exceeded
210063.544526.75 / 7013.92202 / 6204latency 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
15599.18 / 149.650 / 0Met workload limits
12020157.34 / 458.160 / 0Met workload limits
150501145.92 / 1904.120 / 0Met workload limits
110075.364805.3 / 5691.120 / 4240latency limit exceeded
25546.5 / 146.680 / 0Met workload limits
2202085.29 / 542.790 / 0Met workload limits
25050957.84 / 1848.090 / 0Met workload limits
210077.734710.59 / 5469.010 / 3807latency 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
155375.3 / 717.50 / 0Met workload limits
12020449.12 / 948.350 / 0Met workload limits
15035.157013.92 / 7013.921367 / 1117latency limit exceeded
110039.817013.92 / 7013.92975 / 9646latency limit exceeded
255353.5 / 402.450 / 0Met workload limits
22020435.88 / 636.630 / 0Met workload limits
25037.847013.92 / 7013.921228 / 775latency limit exceeded
210038.067013.92 / 7013.921354 / 9611latency 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 Shared vCPU 5.5% 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 7642 48-Core Processor
CPU cores
4
CPU frequency
2300 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
5.5% 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 8GB
Product line
Shared CPU
Location
Fremont, CA
vCPU
4 shared 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
$48.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.072
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 21, 2026, 00:10:16 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 20, 2026, 01:54:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 21, 2026, 00:10:11 UTC
Completed
Oct 21, 2026, 04:58:49 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 21, 2026, 04:58:49 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.35
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