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Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,457
Geekbench 7 multi-core
7,782
Disk 4K IOPS
193,928
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€44.00 EUR
151 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    X-ZoneServers
  • Plan
    VPS V KVM
  • Location
    Ashburn
  • vCPU
    6
  • RAM
    24 GB
  • Storage
    100 GB SSD
  • Network
    1 Gbps
  • OS image
    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  • Trigger
    Manual
  • Queued at
    Oct 12, 2026, 00:17:52 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,457 7,782 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
1,474
40th of 106
5,645
8th of 90
Navigation
1,431
43rd of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,445
37th of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,486
44th of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,524
32nd of 106
8,189
9th of 90
Clang
1,364
32nd of 106
7,778
10th of 90
Text Processing
1,380
36th of 106
7,042
10th of 90
Asset Compression
1,466
40th of 106
8,435
11th of 90
HDR
1,511
39th of 106
7,912
3rd of 90
Photo Editor
1,718
30th of 106
9,449
2nd of 90
Ray Tracer
1,389
40th of 106
8,422
12th of 90
Structure from Motion
1,718
29th of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,408
41st of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,177
62nd of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,415
49th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
1,498
45th 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 126 GB/s 3 5.48%
Scale higher is better 130 GB/s 3 0.226%
Add higher is better 136 GB/s 3 0.973%
Triad higher is better 136 GB/s 3 1.27%

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 3,421/s 3 0.106%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 82,516/s 3 0.11%
SHA-256 higher is better 5.04 GB/s 3 0.213%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 49.4 GB/s 3 1.14%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 18.7 GB/s 3 0.154%

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 4.8 ms 3 0.192%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 1,226/s 3 0.326%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 6.63 ms 3 8.1%
Requests per second, average higher is better 1,216/s 3 0.0803%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 378.3 MB/s (96,836 IOPS) 379.3 MB/s (97,092 IOPS) 757.5 MB/s (193,928 IOPS)
64K 3.04 GB/s (49,744 IOPS) 3.05 GB/s (50,006 IOPS) 6.09 GB/s (99,750 IOPS)
512K 5.96 GB/s (12,201 IOPS) 6.27 GB/s (12,850 IOPS) 12.23 GB/s (25,051 IOPS)
1M 8.92 GB/s (9,133 IOPS) 9.51 GB/s (9,741 IOPS) 18.43 GB/s (18,874 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 249 Mbps 107 Mbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 253 Mbps 230 Mbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 228 Mbps 162 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 262 Mbps 220 Mbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 255 Mbps 200 Mbps

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 2,964 0.337 ms
fdatasync 2,767 0.361 ms
fsync 1,510 0.662 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,545 0.647 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 1,398 0.715 ms
fdatasync 2,339 0.428 ms
fsync 1,365 0.732 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 743 1.35 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 1,347 0.743 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 706 1.42 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 366 2.73 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 222 4.51 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 106 9.39 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 1,372 0.729 ms
write, close, fsync 1,396 0.717 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,663,161 0.001 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 1,478 0.636 ms 0.882 ms 0.96 ms 1.43 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,064 1.42 ms 2.97 ms 4.16 ms 6.38 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 7,136 3.15 ms 12.4 ms 22.5 ms 38.6 ms 0
Read only 1 27,552 0.041 ms 0.053 ms 0.062 ms 0.093 ms 0
Read only 8 205,474 0.026 ms 0.092 ms 0.123 ms 0.168 ms 0
Read only 32 178,505 0.155 ms 0.276 ms 0.343 ms 0.492 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 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.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,313 0.743 ms 0.962 ms 1.11 ms 3.57 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,433 1.33 ms 2.05 ms 3.72 ms 12.2 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 10,279 2.77 ms 5.16 ms 11.8 ms 25.4 ms 0
Read only 1 20,649 0.049 ms 0.069 ms 0.089 ms 0.256 ms 0
Read only 8 143,910 0.038 ms 0.123 ms 0.161 ms 0.232 ms 0
Read only 32 124,622 0.232 ms 0.382 ms 0.473 ms 0.98 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 10.2 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.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 303 6,062 3.13 ms 3.96 ms 8.13 ms 0
Read/write 8 1,321 26,426 5.67 ms 9.06 ms 14.2 ms 0
Read/write 32 2,461 49,211 12.5 ms 19.6 ms 25.7 ms 0
Read only 1 981 15,691 1.04 ms 1.14 ms 1.32 ms 0
Read only 8 6,851 109,611 0.971 ms 2.31 ms 2.66 ms 0
Read only 32 6,066 97,061 5.09 ms 7.84 ms 8.9 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 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 80,290 72,991 0.767 ms 1.59 ms 1.9 ms
1:1 set:get 74,739 37,369 0.855 ms 1.77 ms 2.01 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 2,527 8,904 12,451 207 ms
Express express-postgresjs 25,696 34,937 142,929 19.8 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 25,453 37,374 188,292 18.5 ms
NestJS nestjs 18,709 20,372 88,787 29.6 ms
Nuxt nuxt 23,522 34,738 129,862 27.1 ms
FastAPI fastapi 12,390 15,852 78,866 118 ms
Django django-postgresql 3,801 4,272 9,795 127 ms
Rails rails 6,703 9,206 46,810 69.5 ms
Laravel laravel 2,736 2,902 5,463 102 ms
Symfony symfony 3,406 3,710 10,850 81.6 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 8.05 192 ms 269 ms 292 ms 0%
Shop page 8.05 251 ms 345 ms 383 ms 0%
Category page 8.05 173 ms 268 ms 332 ms 0%
Product page 8.05 180 ms 255 ms 278 ms 0%
Product search 8.05 158 ms 223 ms 241 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 8.03 797 ms 981 ms 1.06 s 0%
Shop page 8.03 1.03 s 1.24 s 1.31 s 0%
Category page 8.03 722 ms 1.07 s 1.18 s 0%
Product page 8.03 744 ms 905 ms 977 ms 0%
Product search 8.03 664 ms 826 ms 883 ms 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 15.4 205 ms 278 ms 306 ms 0%
Cart 15.4 167 ms 235 ms 254 ms 0%
Checkout 15.4 130 ms 182 ms 195 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 15.6 841 ms 1.07 s 1.17 s 0%
Cart 15.6 719 ms 899 ms 975 ms 0%
Checkout 15.6 584 ms 753 ms 811 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 63 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 2.87 153 ms 203 ms 373 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.44 78 ms 87.5 ms 92 ms 0%
Home page 1.44 136 ms 156 ms 344 ms 0%
Categories page 0.713 160 ms 243 ms 349 ms 0%
User activity page 0.713 96.8 ms 148 ms 238 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 9.87 179 ms 216 ms 429 ms 0%
Topic JSON 4.95 89.8 ms 106 ms 165 ms 0%
Home page 4.93 159 ms 192 ms 407 ms 0%
Categories page 2.48 185 ms 265 ms 450 ms 0%
User activity page 2.47 117 ms 167 ms 297 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 14.3 464 ms 626 ms 900 ms 0%
Topic JSON 7.21 342 ms 438 ms 471 ms 0%
Home page 7.16 435 ms 586 ms 751 ms 0%
Categories page 3.61 478 ms 622 ms 788 ms 0%
User activity page 3.56 380 ms 517 ms 636 ms 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 296 13.6 ms 26.5 ms 36.5 ms 0%
Topic JSON 148 12.5 ms 25.4 ms 36.2 ms 0%
Home page 148 13.6 ms 26.5 ms 38.6 ms 0%
Categories page 74 13.5 ms 26.6 ms 37.7 ms 0%
User activity page 74.1 77.8 ms 112 ms 147 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 61 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 4096 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 25 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 2,844 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 12.7 23.2 ms 25.1 ms 27.5 ms 0%
Post page 31.7 12.1 ms 14.1 ms 17.1 ms 0%
Tag page 6.35 15.2 ms 17.2 ms 19.4 ms 0%
Author page 6.33 15.3 ms 17.2 ms 18.9 ms 0%
RSS feed 6.33 16.9 ms 20.9 ms 24.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 14.8 72.5 ms 88.4 ms 94.7 ms 0%
Post page 36.9 50.8 ms 68.1 ms 74.6 ms 0%
Tag page 7.38 44.7 ms 58.8 ms 63.6 ms 0%
Author page 7.36 44.3 ms 58.5 ms 65.1 ms 0%
RSS feed 7.36 49.5 ms 66.8 ms 70.4 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 14.8 281 ms 321 ms 340 ms 0%
Post page 37.1 224 ms 270 ms 289 ms 0%
Tag page 7.38 153 ms 193 ms 212 ms 0%
Author page 7.41 156 ms 198 ms 213 ms 0%
RSS feed 7.41 157 ms 199 ms 218 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 6.59 22.4 ms 25.5 ms 27.6 ms 0%
Post editor 19.8 8.5 ms 10.9 ms 13.5 ms 0%
Saving a draft 19.8 23.7 ms 26.8 ms 30.9 ms 0%
Member list 6.61 24.9 ms 29.5 ms 34.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 8.61 28.7 ms 31.8 ms 35 ms 0%
Post editor 25.9 13.5 ms 18.7 ms 20 ms 0%
Saving a draft 25.9 120 ms 140 ms 146 ms 0%
Member list 8.62 34.5 ms 36.5 ms 38.6 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 547 MB and MySQL at 625 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 2.08 64.1 ms 66.4 ms 67.1 ms 0%
Blog index 2.08 216 ms 226 ms 228 ms 0%
Blog post 6.2 20.9 ms 31.3 ms 32.7 ms 0%
Bread page 6.22 23.1 ms 24.5 ms 25.1 ms 0%
Location page 2.08 21.8 ms 23.4 ms 24.3 ms 0%
Site search 2.06 34.6 ms 59 ms 59.9 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 3.52 156 ms 234 ms 290 ms 0%
Blog index 3.57 551 ms 841 ms 893 ms 0%
Blog post 10.6 42.5 ms 82.4 ms 106 ms 0%
Bread page 10.6 46 ms 75.8 ms 89.6 ms 0%
Location page 3.57 43.2 ms 70.5 ms 87.3 ms 0%
Site search 3.52 66 ms 143 ms 173 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 3.89 462 ms 594 ms 687 ms 0%
Blog index 3.97 1.3 s 1.49 s 1.53 s 0%
Blog post 11.7 267 ms 384 ms 447 ms 0%
Bread page 11.7 274 ms 393 ms 446 ms 0%
Location page 3.91 264 ms 394 ms 490 ms 0%
Site search 3.92 322 ms 460 ms 559 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.941 66.9 ms 73.2 ms 140 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.92 247 ms 256 ms 390 ms 0%
Page editor 2.84 117 ms 136 ms 245 ms 0%
Image library 0.941 48.3 ms 51.1 ms 407 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.941 27.2 ms 56.8 ms 103 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.61 186 ms 406 ms 503 ms 0%
Page explorer 3.28 534 ms 836 ms 969 ms 0%
Page editor 4.88 288 ms 609 ms 674 ms 0%
Image library 1.61 175 ms 395 ms 473 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.61 63.2 ms 255 ms 297 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 302 MB, Postgres at 147 MB, and Redis at 8 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 6 6
CPU Shared vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 24 GB 23.5 GiB
Storage 100 GB SSD 96.8 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-Turin Processor
CPU cores
6
CPU frequency
2250 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
23.5 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
96.8 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-124-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
VPS V KVM
Product line
Hourly VPS
Location
Ashburn
vCPU
6 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
24 GB
Storage
100 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
1 Gbps
Transfer
Unmetered
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
€44.00 EUR
Hourly price at test time
€0.061 EUR
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 12, 2026, 00:18:37 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 00:17:52 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 00:18:35 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 01:52:25 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 01:52:25 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.096 EUR
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