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Linode Dedicated 8GB

Stockholm, SE

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 12, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,246
Faster than 69% of 4 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,547
Faster than 17% of 4 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
88,270
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$72.00
35 multi-core points per dollar
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Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Dedicated 8GB
  • Location
    Stockholm, SE
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    160 GB SSD
  • Network
    5 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Manual
  • Queued at
    Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,246 2,547 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
1,246
61st of 106
3,072
33rd of 90
Navigation
1,259
66th of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,322
49th of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,284
61st of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,123
57th of 106
2,745
40th of 90
Clang
1,122
62nd of 106
2,930
41st of 90
Text Processing
1,226
47th of 106
2,546
45th of 90
Asset Compression
1,312
55th of 106
3,379
40th of 90
HDR
1,325
49th of 106
2,310
53rd of 90
Photo Editor
877
84th of 106
997
82nd of 90
Ray Tracer
1,341
48th of 106
3,621
36th of 90
Structure from Motion
1,216
70th of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,267
53rd of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,293
50th of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,389
54th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
1,455
49th 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 47.9 GB/s 3 0.695%
Scale higher is better 39.9 GB/s 3 0.0364%
Add higher is better 41.9 GB/s 3 0.643%
Triad higher is better 42.6 GB/s 3 0.329%

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 442/s 3 1.51%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 29,092/s 3 0.0578%
SHA-256 higher is better 2.34 GB/s 3 0.0671%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 7.33 GB/s 3 0.454%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 5.07 GB/s 3 0.877%

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 10.4 ms 3 0.614%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 384/s 3 1.29%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 17.4 ms 3 5.9%
Requests per second, average higher is better 379/s 3 0.501%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 172.2 MB/s (44,077 IOPS) 172.6 MB/s (44,193 IOPS) 344.8 MB/s (88,270 IOPS)
64K 1.28 GB/s (20,896 IOPS) 1.28 GB/s (21,006 IOPS) 2.56 GB/s (41,902 IOPS)
512K 3.31 GB/s (6,774 IOPS) 3.48 GB/s (7,134 IOPS) 6.79 GB/s (13,908 IOPS)
1M 3.63 GB/s (3,718 IOPS) 3.87 GB/s (3,966 IOPS) 7.5 GB/s (7,684 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 4.86 Gbps 2.04 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 5.29 Gbps 9.42 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 763 Mbps 773 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 931 Mbps 1.22 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.48 Gbps 2.54 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 10,865 0.092 ms
fdatasync 6,159 0.162 ms
fsync 3,842 0.26 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,357 0.23 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 4,979 0.201 ms
fdatasync 5,374 0.186 ms
fsync 3,504 0.285 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,118 0.472 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 4,076 0.245 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,650 0.606 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,182 0.846 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 402 2.49 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 197 5.07 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 3,334 0.3 ms
write, close, fsync 3,442 0.291 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 398,126 0.003 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 1,381 0.674 ms 0.963 ms 1.04 ms 1.27 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,364 1.34 ms 2.49 ms 3.44 ms 6.11 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,155 4.85 ms 14.7 ms 24.4 ms 43.6 ms 0
Read only 1 16,454 0.054 ms 0.081 ms 0.21 ms 0.274 ms 0
Read only 8 63,397 0.11 ms 0.215 ms 0.335 ms 0.555 ms 0
Read only 32 69,614 0.396 ms 0.609 ms 0.78 ms 1.17 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.68 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 1,365 0.701 ms 0.873 ms 0.949 ms 1.64 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,463 1.37 ms 2.12 ms 3.09 ms 6.46 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 6,277 4.86 ms 7.83 ms 10.2 ms 15.6 ms 0
Read only 1 12,697 0.069 ms 0.112 ms 0.269 ms 0.318 ms 0
Read only 8 49,335 0.14 ms 0.314 ms 0.437 ms 0.866 ms 0
Read only 32 54,164 0.518 ms 0.856 ms 1.23 ms 2.76 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 1 306 6,120 3.13 ms 4.25 ms 6.43 ms 0
Read/write 8 922 18,436 8.43 ms 13.5 ms 17.6 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,136 22,722 27.2 ms 47.5 ms 61.1 ms 0
Read only 1 686 10,969 1.34 ms 1.96 ms 2.18 ms 0
Read only 8 2,359 37,745 3.25 ms 4.57 ms 5.67 ms 0
Read only 32 2,315 37,042 13.5 ms 17.6 ms 20.4 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 5.9 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 49,472 44,974 1.25 ms 2.35 ms 3.01 ms
1:1 set:get 48,174 24,087 1.29 ms 2.43 ms 3.09 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 824 3,008 4,023 472 ms
Express express-postgresjs 10,110 13,261 36,183 52.6 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 9,683 14,018 36,549 50.9 ms
NestJS nestjs 5,478 6,371 20,640 74.9 ms
Nuxt nuxt 7,821 12,060 29,240 75.4 ms
FastAPI fastapi 4,349 5,562 19,106 279 ms
Django django-postgresql 2,280 2,590 5,800 273 ms
Rails rails 3,749 4,953 16,580 86.5 ms
Laravel laravel 1,040 1,122 2,068 287 ms
Symfony symfony 1,320 1,457 3,930 216 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 3.05 525 ms 680 ms 710 ms 0%
Shop page 3.05 704 ms 845 ms 924 ms 0%
Category page 3.05 445 ms 766 ms 858 ms 0%
Product page 3.05 471 ms 619 ms 640 ms 0%
Product search 3.05 422 ms 556 ms 620 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.95 2.02 s 2.34 s 2.5 s 0%
Shop page 2.95 2.71 s 3.09 s 3.16 s 0%
Category page 2.95 2.21 s 2.72 s 2.85 s 0%
Product page 2.95 1.96 s 2.23 s 2.29 s 0%
Product search 2.95 1.79 s 2.02 s 2.11 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 5.88 541 ms 677 ms 727 ms 0%
Cart 5.88 464 ms 579 ms 620 ms 0%
Checkout 5.88 364 ms 470 ms 498 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 5.59 2.07 s 2.45 s 2.59 s 0%
Cart 5.59 2 s 2.31 s 2.38 s 0%
Checkout 5.59 1.6 s 1.89 s 2 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 65 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 2.12 211 ms 319 ms 451 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.08 109 ms 131 ms 255 ms 0%
Home page 1.08 185 ms 211 ms 242 ms 0%
Categories page 0.529 214 ms 246 ms 306 ms 0%
User activity page 0.529 127 ms 232 ms 312 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 5.03 346 ms 486 ms 818 ms 0%
Topic JSON 2.51 180 ms 237 ms 264 ms 0%
Home page 2.52 314 ms 405 ms 625 ms 0%
Categories page 1.27 350 ms 448 ms 522 ms 0%
User activity page 1.25 214 ms 321 ms 532 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 4.9 1.34 s 1.7 s 2.29 s 0%
Topic JSON 2.47 1 s 1.3 s 1.74 s 0%
Home page 2.45 1.25 s 1.57 s 2.43 s 0%
Categories page 1.23 1.35 s 1.74 s 2.33 s 0%
User activity page 1.26 1.04 s 1.4 s 1.85 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 112 34.5 ms 73.9 ms 110 ms 0%
Topic JSON 56.2 31.4 ms 67.4 ms 107 ms 0%
Home page 56.2 34.2 ms 71.9 ms 109 ms 0%
Categories page 28.1 34.4 ms 72.6 ms 110 ms 0%
User activity page 28.2 207 ms 282 ms 435 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 2048 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 8 GB box. Its installer adds no swap on a box this big. The container peaked at 2,704 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 9.13 31.8 ms 37.2 ms 45.9 ms 0%
Post page 22.8 16.7 ms 20 ms 25.9 ms 0%
Tag page 4.56 21.7 ms 25.4 ms 33.1 ms 0%
Author page 4.56 21.8 ms 25.4 ms 26.7 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.55 23.3 ms 27.6 ms 34.1 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 10.6 103 ms 126 ms 136 ms 0%
Post page 26.4 68.3 ms 93.6 ms 109 ms 0%
Tag page 5.31 63.3 ms 85.5 ms 102 ms 0%
Author page 5.28 63.9 ms 85.1 ms 93.2 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.28 74.7 ms 100 ms 112 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 10.3 393 ms 460 ms 487 ms 0%
Post page 25.8 330 ms 389 ms 412 ms 0%
Tag page 5.18 213 ms 257 ms 289 ms 0%
Author page 5.2 213 ms 256 ms 274 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.13 221 ms 270 ms 296 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 4.93 31.2 ms 37.5 ms 48.1 ms 0%
Post editor 14.8 11.4 ms 14.5 ms 17.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 14.8 29.7 ms 35.1 ms 41.5 ms 0%
Member list 4.95 36.5 ms 46.1 ms 62.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 5.61 44.3 ms 53.4 ms 57.3 ms 0%
Post editor 16.9 24.2 ms 30 ms 37.3 ms 0%
Saving a draft 16.9 175 ms 222 ms 238 ms 0%
Member list 5.63 56.4 ms 64.3 ms 77.6 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 530 MB and MySQL at 625 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.61 82.5 ms 91.1 ms 92.6 ms 0%
Blog index 1.6 288 ms 310 ms 325 ms 0%
Blog post 4.81 26.4 ms 40.9 ms 44.4 ms 0%
Bread page 4.81 28.9 ms 32.9 ms 34.8 ms 0%
Location page 1.61 27.5 ms 31.8 ms 34.5 ms 0%
Site search 1.6 42.6 ms 76.2 ms 81.9 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.63 226 ms 297 ms 330 ms 0%
Blog index 2.68 787 ms 1.04 s 1.11 s 0%
Blog post 7.92 57.4 ms 99.5 ms 147 ms 0%
Bread page 7.95 62.6 ms 91.5 ms 100 ms 0%
Location page 2.68 60.5 ms 89 ms 122 ms 0%
Site search 2.63 85.3 ms 172 ms 191 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.87 642 ms 988 ms 1.09 s 0%
Blog index 2.95 1.7 s 2.05 s 2.25 s 0%
Blog post 8.55 341 ms 574 ms 778 ms 0%
Bread page 8.61 348 ms 657 ms 803 ms 0%
Location page 2.9 357 ms 583 ms 741 ms 0%
Site search 2.85 406 ms 668 ms 905 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.595 87.6 ms 101 ms 113 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.21 406 ms 439 ms 567 ms 0%
Page editor 1.78 191 ms 247 ms 325 ms 0%
Image library 0.595 70.9 ms 79.9 ms 621 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.595 37.4 ms 83.7 ms 93.2 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.836 316 ms 663 ms 755 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.69 1.12 s 2.2 s 2.99 s 0%
Page editor 2.52 525 ms 927 ms 998 ms 0%
Image library 0.853 273 ms 618 ms 668 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.836 89.5 ms 283 ms 335 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. 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 297 MB, Postgres at 151 MB, and Redis at 25 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.1% 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
0.1% 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
Stockholm, SE
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 12, 2026, 04:21:02 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 12, 2026, 01:06:45 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 12, 2026, 04:20:56 UTC
Completed
Oct 12, 2026, 05:58:18 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 12, 2026, 05:58:18 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.18
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