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Fremont, CA

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 11, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,219
Faster than 50% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,154
Faster than 50% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
70,825
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$24.00
90 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Linode 4GB
  • Location
    Fremont, CA
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 11, 2026, 14:04:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,219 2,154 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
1,268
60th of 106
1,859
67th of 90
Navigation
1,301
59th of 106
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,128
62nd of 106
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,328
55th of 106
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,070
61st of 106
2,100
61st of 90
Clang
1,108
68th of 106
2,288
57th of 90
Text Processing
1,067
63rd of 106
2,000
63rd of 90
Asset Compression
1,196
67th of 106
2,351
61st of 90
HDR
864
82nd of 106
1,583
68th of 90
Photo Editor
1,353
59th of 106
2,704
44th of 90
Ray Tracer
1,359
45th of 106
2,580
56th of 90
Structure from Motion
1,583
43rd of 106
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,321
48th of 106
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,111
69th of 106
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,307
56th of 106
Single-core only
Video Player
1,313
62nd 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 44.2 GB/s 3 25.5%
Scale higher is better 30.1 GB/s 3 15.3%
Add higher is better 32.8 GB/s 3 21.1%
Triad higher is better 33.5 GB/s 3 22.9%

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 463/s 3 0.0659%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 30,107/s 3 0.424%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.41 GB/s 3 0.566%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 7.13 GB/s 3 0.569%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 3.64 GB/s 3 0.0772%

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 4.08 ms 3 0.575%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 484/s 3 0.207%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 7.22 ms 3 6.03%
Requests per second, average higher is better 480/s 3 0.473%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 138.1 MB/s (35,366 IOPS) 138.5 MB/s (35,459 IOPS) 276.7 MB/s (70,825 IOPS)
64K 1.49 GB/s (24,480 IOPS) 1.5 GB/s (24,609 IOPS) 3 GB/s (49,089 IOPS)
512K 2.14 GB/s (4,375 IOPS) 2.25 GB/s (4,607 IOPS) 4.39 GB/s (8,982 IOPS)
1M 2.22 GB/s (2,270 IOPS) 2.36 GB/s (2,421 IOPS) 4.58 GB/s (4,691 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 1.26 Gbps 1.58 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.62 Gbps 1.68 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 951 Mbps 1.28 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 4.35 Gbps 8.56 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2 Gbps 3.81 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 13,371 0.075 ms
fdatasync 7,640 0.131 ms
fsync 6,031 0.166 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 6,715 0.149 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 6,603 0.151 ms
fdatasync 7,111 0.141 ms
fsync 5,642 0.177 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,048 0.328 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 5,891 0.17 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,938 0.34 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,377 0.726 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 489 2.05 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 283 3.53 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 5,600 0.179 ms
write, close, fsync 5,524 0.181 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,153,697 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 1,991 0.49 ms 0.573 ms 0.72 ms 1.77 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 5,170 1.46 ms 2.44 ms 3.2 ms 4.52 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,128 5.04 ms 14.1 ms 22.9 ms 37.4 ms 0
Read only 1 21,904 0.044 ms 0.055 ms 0.064 ms 0.092 ms 0
Read only 8 55,744 0.13 ms 0.209 ms 0.25 ms 0.609 ms 0
Read only 32 62,032 0.452 ms 0.64 ms 0.856 ms 1.56 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.24 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 1,727 0.519 ms 0.874 ms 1.3 ms 2.84 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,827 1.56 ms 2.53 ms 4.41 ms 9.61 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 6,325 4.79 ms 7.69 ms 10.6 ms 16.8 ms 0
Read only 1 17,682 0.052 ms 0.07 ms 0.093 ms 0.491 ms 0
Read only 8 44,836 0.165 ms 0.261 ms 0.318 ms 0.766 ms 0
Read only 32 48,444 0.598 ms 0.898 ms 1.2 ms 2.2 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 11.9 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 1 401 8,011 2.31 ms 3.43 ms 6.1 ms 0
Read/write 8 865 17,299 9.22 ms 14 ms 17.3 ms 0
Read/write 32 958 19,168 33.1 ms 51.9 ms 63.3 ms 0
Read only 1 844 13,505 1.16 ms 1.34 ms 1.7 ms 0
Read only 8 1,747 27,957 4.33 ms 6.43 ms 7.17 ms 0
Read only 32 1,722 27,559 18 ms 24.4 ms 26.7 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 7 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 73,852 67,137 0.511 ms 2.99 ms 4.45 ms
1:1 set:get 75,397 37,698 0.487 ms 2.99 ms 4.48 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 693 2,636 3,470 1.17 s
Express express-postgresjs 8,112 12,103 34,520 54.5 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 7,868 12,834 37,522 67.7 ms
NestJS nestjs 5,551 6,109 19,160 87.8 ms
Nuxt nuxt 7,112 11,918 32,582 85 ms
FastAPI fastapi 4,016 5,027 18,455 206 ms
Django django-postgresql 2,029 2,403 5,360 212 ms
Rails rails 3,544 4,807 16,892 107 ms
Laravel laravel 907 948 1,736 331 ms
Symfony symfony 1,183 1,303 3,599 225 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 2.3 702 ms 783 ms 812 ms 0%
Shop page 2.3 946 ms 1.06 s 1.08 s 0%
Category page 2.3 597 ms 921 ms 981 ms 0%
Product page 2.3 635 ms 755 ms 764 ms 0%
Product search 2.3 556 ms 668 ms 695 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.32 2.52 s 2.85 s 3 s 0%
Shop page 2.32 3.35 s 3.77 s 3.85 s 0%
Category page 2.32 2.91 s 3.51 s 3.65 s 0%
Product page 2.32 2.5 s 2.74 s 2.85 s 0%
Product search 2.32 2.35 s 2.55 s 2.64 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 4.47 731 ms 848 ms 866 ms 0%
Cart 4.47 605 ms 694 ms 705 ms 0%
Checkout 4.47 468 ms 536 ms 548 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 4.41 2.46 s 2.96 s 3.07 s 0%
Cart 4.41 2.61 s 2.87 s 2.98 s 0%
Checkout 4.41 2.05 s 2.35 s 2.47 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 69 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 0% 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 7542 32-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2900 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
0% 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
Fremont, CA
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 11, 2026, 14:05:33 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 11, 2026, 14:04:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 11, 2026, 14:05:29 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 11, 2026, 14:05:29 UTC
Completed
Oct 11, 2026, 15:21:10 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 11, 2026, 15:21:10 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.046
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