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Gcore CPU-Optimized G1 2 vCPU / 2 GB

Manassas

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 15, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
937
Faster than 32% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
1,200
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€23.98 EUR
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Server

  • Provider
    Gcore
  • Plan
    CPU-Optimized G1 2 vCPU / 2 GB
  • Location
    Manassas
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    2 GB
  • Storage
  • Network
    1 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 15, 2026, 09:39:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 937 Skipped Geekbench Browser

Multi-core was skipped because Geekbench 7 needs about 3.1 GB of free memory to run 2 threads, and this server didn't have that much. Single-core needs much less, so it still ran.

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
923
153rd of 191
Single-core only
Navigation
1,161
121st of 191
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
934
131st of 191
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
980
144th of 191
Single-core only
Photo Library
751
141st of 191
Single-core only
Clang
950
131st of 191
Single-core only
Text Processing
933
134th of 191
Single-core only
Asset Compression
1,032
130th of 191
Single-core only
HDR
833
138th of 191
Single-core only
Photo Editor
961
130th of 191
Single-core only
Ray Tracer
924
142nd of 191
Single-core only
Structure from Motion
1,031
138th of 191
Single-core only
Game Physics
890
148th of 191
Single-core only
Video Encoder
883
138th of 191
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
972
139th of 191
Single-core only
Video Player
894
140th of 191
Single-core only

Rank among the 191 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 19.4 GB/s 3 0.465%
Scale higher is better 19.3 GB/s 3 0.424%
Add higher is better 21.5 GB/s 3 0.356%
Triad higher is better 21.5 GB/s 3 0.409%

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 378/s 3 3.13%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 25,612/s 3 1.11%
SHA-256 higher is better 460 MB/s 3 2.35%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 6.02 GB/s 3 2.39%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 4.02 GB/s 3 1.56%

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 4.57 ms 3 0%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 432/s 3 0.134%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 9.61 ms 3 5%
Requests per second, average higher is better 423/s 3 0.0868%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 2.3 MB/s (597 IOPS) 2.4 MB/s (603 IOPS) 4.7 MB/s (1,200 IOPS)
64K 37.5 MB/s (599 IOPS) 37.8 MB/s (604 IOPS) 75.2 MB/s (1,203 IOPS)
512K 48.8 MB/s (97 IOPS) 51.5 MB/s (103 IOPS) 100.3 MB/s (200 IOPS)
1M 48.3 MB/s (48 IOPS) 51.3 MB/s (51 IOPS) 99.6 MB/s (99 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 1.37 Gbps 1.25 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.41 Gbps 1.36 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 737 Mbps 955 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.4 Gbps 1.34 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.5 Gbps 1.44 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 437 2.29 ms
fdatasync 386 2.59 ms
fsync 106 9.44 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 100 9.98 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 166 6.04 ms
fdatasync 347 2.89 ms
fsync 125 7.99 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 58.3 17.2 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 116 8.61 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 53.2 18.8 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 29.2 34.3 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 14.5 68.7 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 7.56 132 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 108 9.3 ms
write, close, fsync 113 8.83 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 613,181 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) 1 245 3.44 ms 7.05 ms 11.7 ms 251 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 930 6.43 ms 19.7 ms 38 ms 92.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,239 15.4 ms 77.1 ms 152 ms 263 ms 0
Read only 1 20,729 0.045 ms 0.067 ms 0.091 ms 0.177 ms 0
Read only 8 35,922 0.201 ms 0.329 ms 0.414 ms 1.67 ms 0
Read only 32 35,517 0.778 ms 1.23 ms 1.75 ms 3.11 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 4.14 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) 1 166 4.8 ms 10.6 ms 23.3 ms 46.3 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 388 10.5 ms 87.5 ms 133 ms 288 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 356 74.2 ms 218 ms 310 ms 614 ms 0
Read only 1 606 1.03 ms 4.32 ms 7.66 ms 52.4 ms 0
Read only 8 823 7.96 ms 21.8 ms 32.4 ms 105 ms 0
Read only 32 301 32.5 ms 561 ms 933 ms 1.27 s 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 86.2 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 4.53 90.6 109 ms 646 ms 1.13 s 0
Read/write 8 6.15 123 1.01 s 3.45 s 4.13 s 0
Read/write 32 12.3 247 2.59 s 5.31 s 6.14 s 0
Read only 1 613 9,812 1.32 ms 2.62 ms 7.3 ms 0
Read only 8 1,200 19,207 6.43 ms 9.06 ms 10.8 ms 0
Read only 32 1,188 19,002 26.7 ms 33.7 ms 38.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 217 s. 60 to 64 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 54,050 49,136 0.895 ms 3.04 ms 4.77 ms
1:1 set:get 53,005 26,502 0.935 ms 3.07 ms 4.83 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 406 1,531 2,015 1.24 s
Express express-postgresjs 6,018 8,003 25,565 78.9 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 5,806 9,009 28,566 77.8 ms
NestJS nestjs 3,554 3,927 14,131 121 ms
Nuxt nuxt 5,130 8,062 23,876 108 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,713 3,411 14,494 340 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,121 1,258 2,522 304 ms
Rails rails 1,587 2,212 8,693 208 ms
Laravel laravel 586 626 1,142 482 ms
Symfony symfony 747 813 2,129 393 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.

Web apps

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.65 937 ms 1.06 s 1.13 s 0%
Shop page 1.65 1.28 s 1.39 s 1.49 s 0%
Category page 1.65 811 ms 1.29 s 1.36 s 0%
Product page 1.65 876 ms 983 ms 1.06 s 0%
Product search 1.65 744 ms 882 ms 913 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.81 3.46 s 3.86 s 4.03 s 0%
Shop page 1.81 4.6 s 5.13 s 5.22 s 0%
Category page 1.76 4.1 s 4.8 s 5.12 s 0%
Product page 1.42 3.52 s 3.72 s 3.88 s 0%
Product search 1.35 3.22 s 3.44 s 3.5 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 3.15 1.01 s 1.14 s 1.17 s 0%
Cart 3.15 827 ms 933 ms 948 ms 0%
Checkout 3.15 621 ms 729 ms 759 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.23 3.4 s 4.08 s 4.26 s 0%
Cart 3.23 3.56 s 3.88 s 4.08 s 0%
Checkout 3.23 2.79 s 3.13 s 3.23 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 63 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 1.46 311 ms 356 ms 535 ms 0%
Topic JSON 0.74 151 ms 178 ms 234 ms 0%
Home page 0.74 267 ms 333 ms 568 ms 0%
Categories page 0.362 319 ms 343 ms 351 ms 0%
User activity page 0.362 187 ms 209 ms 380 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 2.83 609 ms 851 ms 1.19 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.42 324 ms 412 ms 431 ms 0%
Home page 1.41 555 ms 896 ms 1.27 s 0%
Categories page 0.737 628 ms 785 ms 1.11 s 0%
User activity page 0.704 372 ms 638 ms 821 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 2.81 1.65 s 2.21 s 2.68 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.39 1.35 s 1.72 s 1.91 s 0%
Home page 1.39 1.63 s 2 s 2.38 s 0%
Categories page 0.703 1.65 s 1.89 s 1.97 s 0%
User activity page 0.719 1.46 s 1.72 s 1.94 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 57 79.8 ms 185 ms 235 ms 0%
Topic JSON 28.5 79 ms 188 ms 246 ms 0%
Home page 28.5 82.6 ms 185 ms 236 ms 0%
Categories page 14.3 78.5 ms 187 ms 308 ms 0%
User activity page 14.3 248 ms 400 ms 562 ms 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 63 s per level, after a 22 s warmup. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200. Discourse ran with 4 app workers and 256 MB of Postgres shared buffers, what its installer picks for a 2 GB box. It added a 2 GB swapfile first, the way its installer does, and used up to 362 MB of it. The container peaked at 1,504 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 5.7 48.3 ms 61.5 ms 96.5 ms 0%
Post page 14.2 26 ms 33.8 ms 48.5 ms 0%
Tag page 2.85 33.6 ms 40.8 ms 48.4 ms 0%
Author page 2.85 33.4 ms 42.2 ms 61.3 ms 0%
RSS feed 2.83 41.7 ms 52.4 ms 60.7 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 6.97 149 ms 221 ms 250 ms 0%
Post page 17.4 102 ms 151 ms 195 ms 0%
Tag page 3.51 94.1 ms 143 ms 174 ms 0%
Author page 3.48 97.4 ms 143 ms 184 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.46 109 ms 151 ms 209 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 7.1 566 ms 684 ms 742 ms 0%
Post page 17.7 475 ms 603 ms 664 ms 0%
Tag page 3.55 299 ms 406 ms 454 ms 0%
Author page 3.53 306 ms 419 ms 447 ms 0%
RSS feed 3.51 310 ms 416 ms 468 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 2.53 51.6 ms 64.5 ms 86.3 ms 0%
Post editor 7.63 19 ms 26.4 ms 36 ms 0%
Saving a draft 7.61 64.5 ms 95.1 ms 169 ms 0%
Member list 2.53 59.5 ms 72.2 ms 84.1 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 3.21 58.9 ms 79.1 ms 134 ms 0%
Post editor 9.68 23.2 ms 36.8 ms 62.8 ms 0%
Saving a draft 9.72 313 ms 470 ms 600 ms 0%
Member list 3.22 65.7 ms 86.9 ms 109 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. 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 346 MB and MySQL at 582 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.1 117 ms 137 ms 147 ms 0%
Blog index 1.1 413 ms 451 ms 461 ms 0%
Blog post 3.25 38.8 ms 56.2 ms 65.8 ms 0%
Bread page 3.27 43.6 ms 52 ms 58.9 ms 0%
Location page 1.1 39.9 ms 49.5 ms 53.1 ms 0%
Site search 1.08 76.2 ms 121 ms 131 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.02 284 ms 375 ms 453 ms 0%
Blog index 2.05 971 ms 1.25 s 1.35 s 0%
Blog post 6.06 77.9 ms 129 ms 169 ms 0%
Bread page 6.09 84.4 ms 123 ms 147 ms 0%
Location page 2.07 79.2 ms 123 ms 142 ms 0%
Site search 2 130 ms 251 ms 336 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.02 948 ms 1.32 s 1.5 s 0%
Blog index 2 2.46 s 2.85 s 2.98 s 0%
Blog post 5.95 528 ms 913 ms 1.04 s 0%
Bread page 5.98 513 ms 847 ms 1.08 s 0%
Location page 1.97 515 ms 886 ms 1 s 0%
Site search 1.99 619 ms 1.01 s 1.25 s 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.458 131 ms 154 ms 166 ms 0%
Page explorer 0.949 473 ms 557 ms 659 ms 0%
Page editor 1.41 238 ms 345 ms 475 ms 0%
Image library 0.458 89.9 ms 105 ms 1.01 s 0%
Admin page search 0.458 52.9 ms 107 ms 109 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.762 328 ms 637 ms 718 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.59 1.14 s 2.06 s 2.19 s 0%
Page editor 2.37 559 ms 1.02 s 1.06 s 0%
Image library 0.778 302 ms 638 ms 671 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.762 117 ms 300 ms 366 ms 0%

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. 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 295 MB, Postgres at 176 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 2 GB 1.9 GiB
Storage 19.3 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
Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2195 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
1.9 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
19.3 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-90-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
CPU-Optimized G1 2 vCPU / 2 GB
Product line
CPU-Optimized G1
Location
Manassas
vCPU
2 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
2 GB
Storage
Virtualization
KVM
Network
1 Gbps
Transfer
Unmetered
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
€23.98 EUR
Hourly price at test time
€0.033 EUR
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 15, 2026, 10:13:26 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 15, 2026, 09:39:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 15, 2026, 10:12:58 UTC
Completed
Oct 15, 2026, 12:14:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 15, 2026, 12:14:00 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.068 EUR
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