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Miami, FL

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 13, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,033
Faster than 52% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,951
Faster than 59% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
80,406
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$24.00
81 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Linode 4GB
  • Location
    Miami, FL
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 13, 2026, 18:03:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,033 1,951 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
1,180
79th of 150
2,058
68th of 113
Navigation
1,083
107th of 150
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,043
89th of 150
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,165
87th of 150
Single-core only
Photo Library
919
92nd of 150
1,944
73rd of 113
Clang
746
125th of 150
1,636
83rd of 113
Text Processing
821
118th of 150
1,469
85th of 113
Asset Compression
1,005
105th of 150
2,017
78th of 113
HDR
1,106
72nd of 150
2,105
64th of 113
Photo Editor
1,161
79th of 150
2,635
53rd of 113
Ray Tracer
964
109th of 150
1,955
79th of 113
Structure from Motion
1,130
98th of 150
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,026
93rd of 150
Single-core only
Video Encoder
979
94th of 150
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,148
89th of 150
Single-core only
Video Player
1,191
84th of 150
Single-core only

Rank among the 150 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 44.6 GB/s 3 6.96%
Scale higher is better 33.5 GB/s 3 7.28%
Add higher is better 35.7 GB/s 3 6.13%
Triad higher is better 35.5 GB/s 3 7.51%

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 352/s 3 3.05%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 21,822/s 3 3.89%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.32 GB/s 3 1.05%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 5.65 GB/s 3 0.303%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 3.41 GB/s 3 21.7%

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 5.92 ms 3 2.03%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 348/s 3 2.67%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 23.8 ms 3 70.8%
Requests per second, average higher is better 306/s 3 3.48%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 156.8 MB/s (40,150 IOPS) 157.3 MB/s (40,256 IOPS) 314.1 MB/s (80,406 IOPS)
64K 1.54 GB/s (25,237 IOPS) 1.55 GB/s (25,369 IOPS) 3.09 GB/s (50,606 IOPS)
512K 2 GB/s (4,096 IOPS) 2.11 GB/s (4,314 IOPS) 4.11 GB/s (8,410 IOPS)
1M 2.22 GB/s (2,278 IOPS) 2.37 GB/s (2,429 IOPS) 4.6 GB/s (4,707 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 1.67 Gbps 1.99 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.71 Gbps 1.93 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 571 Mbps 974 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 2.57 Gbps 3.64 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 4.28 Gbps 6.69 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 8,253 0.121 ms
fdatasync 4,615 0.217 ms
fsync 3,385 0.295 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 824 1.21 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 4,269 0.234 ms
fdatasync 4,283 0.233 ms
fsync 3,238 0.309 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,676 0.597 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,604 0.384 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,539 0.65 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 878 1.14 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 307 3.26 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 136 7.33 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 424 2.36 ms
write, close, fsync 2,580 0.388 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 419,875 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 1,156 0.795 ms 1.16 ms 2.31 ms 6.69 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,948 2.26 ms 4.92 ms 10.7 ms 33.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,429 7.34 ms 22.2 ms 36.7 ms 59 ms 0
Read only 1 12,491 0.071 ms 0.114 ms 0.172 ms 0.669 ms 0
Read only 8 34,023 0.193 ms 0.381 ms 0.497 ms 2.09 ms 0
Read only 32 35,343 0.685 ms 1.38 ms 2 ms 10.5 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.5 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) 1 947 0.899 ms 1.57 ms 4.41 ms 15.1 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,249 2.29 ms 3.96 ms 5.92 ms 11.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,286 8.39 ms 17.6 ms 37 ms 70.1 ms 0
Read only 1 10,351 0.084 ms 0.144 ms 0.42 ms 1.02 ms 0
Read only 8 26,033 0.252 ms 0.478 ms 0.673 ms 8.42 ms 0
Read only 32 31,748 0.815 ms 1.7 ms 2.45 ms 5.19 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 16 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 4,563 3.62 ms 7.57 ms 21.1 ms 0
Read/write 8 556 11,123 13.7 ms 24.4 ms 38.9 ms 0
Read/write 32 621 12,415 49.2 ms 87.6 ms 121 ms 0
Read only 1 547 8,749 1.67 ms 2.39 ms 4.91 ms 0
Read only 8 1,155 18,474 6.43 ms 10.7 ms 14.5 ms 0
Read only 32 1,210 19,354 25.3 ms 35.6 ms 44.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 9 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 42,679 38,799 1.18 ms 4.58 ms 12.3 ms
1:1 set:get 41,886 20,943 1.14 ms 4.67 ms 13.4 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 514 1,762 2,637 716 ms
Express express-postgresjs 5,186 7,803 17,712 94.9 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 5,856 8,298 17,998 90 ms
NestJS nestjs 3,136 3,959 11,786 128 ms
Nuxt nuxt 5,005 6,884 18,532 203 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,552 3,356 11,569 469 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,382 1,455 3,409 253 ms
Rails rails 2,182 3,180 9,578 233 ms
Laravel laravel 570 571 1,080 512 ms
Symfony symfony 670 794 1,932 796 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 1.61 972 ms 1.34 s 1.52 s 0%
Shop page 1.61 1.3 s 1.51 s 1.58 s 0%
Category page 1.61 799 ms 1.38 s 1.43 s 0%
Product page 1.61 867 ms 1.05 s 1.09 s 0%
Product search 1.61 757 ms 951 ms 1.01 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.65 3.64 s 4.58 s 5.77 s 0%
Shop page 1.64 4.58 s 5.25 s 5.56 s 0%
Category page 1.4 4.08 s 4.86 s 5.04 s 0%
Product page 1.36 3.67 s 6.8 s 6.9 s 0%
Product search 1.36 3.38 s 5.54 s 6.43 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 3.08 1.07 s 1.41 s 1.47 s 0%
Cart 3.08 842 ms 1.11 s 1.16 s 0%
Checkout 3.08 637 ms 875 ms 899 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.12 3.36 s 5.05 s 5.48 s 0%
Cart 3.12 3.47 s 4.42 s 4.92 s 0%
Checkout 3.12 2.84 s 3.6 s 3.87 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 71 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 1.7 251 ms 371 ms 576 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.859 132 ms 170 ms 404 ms 0%
Home page 0.859 226 ms 316 ms 477 ms 0%
Categories page 0.43 254 ms 456 ms 519 ms 0%
User activity page 0.43 153 ms 192 ms 470 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 2.97 573 ms 1.03 s 1.26 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.49 279 ms 424 ms 509 ms 0%
Home page 1.47 515 ms 1.01 s 1.11 s 0%
Categories page 0.76 578 ms 1.27 s 1.63 s 0%
User activity page 0.743 373 ms 953 ms 1.21 s 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 3.2 1.68 s 2.23 s 3.28 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.65 1.43 s 2.01 s 2.25 s 0%
Home page 1.59 1.63 s 2.3 s 3.02 s 0%
Categories page 0.809 1.7 s 2.58 s 2.97 s 0%
User activity page 0.809 1.49 s 2.51 s 3.05 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 55.8 80 ms 178 ms 299 ms 0.149%
Topic JSON 27.9 78 ms 174 ms 251 ms 0.178%
Home page 27.9 80.6 ms 171 ms 329 ms 0.178%
Categories page 14 84 ms 181 ms 393 ms 0%
User activity page 14 247 ms 389 ms 847 ms 0.118%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 s per level, after a 21 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 2,131 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 6.33 43.8 ms 61.2 ms 107 ms 0%
Post page 15.8 23 ms 33.3 ms 66.4 ms 0%
Tag page 3.16 30.5 ms 42.5 ms 68.1 ms 0%
Author page 3.15 29.4 ms 40 ms 71.7 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.15 34.3 ms 47.7 ms 71.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 7.27 136 ms 202 ms 347 ms 0%
Post page 18.1 97.2 ms 153 ms 266 ms 0%
Tag page 3.64 89.7 ms 157 ms 223 ms 0%
Author page 3.59 90.6 ms 140 ms 209 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.59 93.7 ms 153 ms 262 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 7.68 509 ms 681 ms 1.17 s 0%
Post page 19.2 421 ms 593 ms 974 ms 0%
Tag page 3.85 279 ms 394 ms 572 ms 0%
Author page 3.82 277 ms 397 ms 707 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.8 286 ms 404 ms 658 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.9 39 ms 54.5 ms 77 ms 0%
Post editor 11.7 14.6 ms 21.3 ms 27.9 ms 0%
Saving a draft 11.7 36 ms 47.2 ms 60.8 ms 0%
Member list 3.9 47.2 ms 66.3 ms 72.3 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.41 55.2 ms 85.3 ms 134 ms 0%
Post editor 13.3 26.9 ms 43.4 ms 78.4 ms 0%
Saving a draft 13.3 214 ms 320 ms 614 ms 0%
Member list 4.45 65.3 ms 99.5 ms 174 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 361 MB and MySQL at 621 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.23 106 ms 141 ms 247 ms 0%
Blog index 1.21 352 ms 443 ms 890 ms 0%
Blog post 3.64 33.2 ms 51.9 ms 93.3 ms 0%
Bread page 3.66 36.5 ms 50.1 ms 112 ms 0%
Location page 1.21 34.4 ms 50.4 ms 80.1 ms 0%
Site search 1.21 55.7 ms 113 ms 174 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.05 264 ms 425 ms 649 ms 0%
Blog index 2.08 917 ms 1.27 s 1.57 s 0%
Blog post 6.16 81.1 ms 143 ms 216 ms 0%
Bread page 6.21 84.2 ms 140 ms 244 ms 0%
Location page 2.1 79.7 ms 124 ms 145 ms 0%
Site search 2.05 126 ms 267 ms 336 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.29 822 ms 1.05 s 1.1 s 0%
Blog index 2.35 1.98 s 2.32 s 2.38 s 0%
Blog post 6.86 456 ms 676 ms 800 ms 0%
Bread page 6.92 497 ms 722 ms 835 ms 0%
Location page 2.3 485 ms 726 ms 892 ms 0%
Site search 2.29 564 ms 855 ms 962 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.429 115 ms 212 ms 391 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.892 505 ms 966 ms 1.11 s 0%
Page editor 1.34 234 ms 446 ms 722 ms 0%
Image library 0.446 86.9 ms 164 ms 836 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.446 53.9 ms 135 ms 186 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.787 324 ms 558 ms 628 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.62 1.22 s 1.9 s 2.08 s 0%
Page editor 2.46 560 ms 943 ms 1.05 s 0%
Image library 0.82 238 ms 508 ms 537 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.803 109 ms 348 ms 406 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 294 MB, Postgres at 160 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 2.7% 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
2.7% 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
Miami, FL
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 13, 2026, 18:06:00 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 13, 2026, 18:03:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 13, 2026, 18:04:42 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 13, 2026, 18:04:42 UTC
Completed
Oct 13, 2026, 19:46:32 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 13, 2026, 19:46:32 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.062
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