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Linode Linode 8GB

Chicago, IL

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 23, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
943
Faster than 21% of 4 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
3,006
Faster than 33% of 4 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
91,923
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$48.00
63 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Linode 8GB
  • Location
    Chicago, IL
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    160 GB SSD
  • Network
    5 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 21, 2026, 17:54:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 943 3,006 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
974
49th of 75
2,559
18th of 42
Navigation
824
61st of 75
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
883
50th of 75
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
969
53rd of 75
Single-core only
Photo Library
816
48th of 75
3,111
15th of 42
Clang
893
47th of 75
3,501
15th of 42
Text Processing
805
53rd of 75
3,070
17th of 42
Asset Compression
975
45th of 75
4,033
15th of 42
HDR
773
51st of 75
2,319
20th of 42
Photo Editor
971
48th of 75
2,073
26th of 42
Ray Tracer
1,048
46th of 75
4,017
14th of 42
Structure from Motion
1,018
55th of 75
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,016
44th of 75
Single-core only
Video Encoder
947
46th of 75
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,095
43rd of 75
Single-core only
Video Player
1,180
34th of 75
Single-core only

Rank among the 75 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.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 179.3 MB/s (45,901 IOPS) 179.8 MB/s (46,022 IOPS) 359.1 MB/s (91,923 IOPS)
64K 1.73 GB/s (28,296 IOPS) 1.74 GB/s (28,445 IOPS) 3.46 GB/s (56,741 IOPS)
512K 2.5 GB/s (5,121 IOPS) 2.63 GB/s (5,394 IOPS) 5.13 GB/s (10,515 IOPS)
1M 3.11 GB/s (3,181 IOPS) 3.31 GB/s (3,393 IOPS) 6.42 GB/s (6,574 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
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 5.26 Gbps 9.29 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.96 Gbps 2.45 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 954 Mbps 988 Mbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Application workloads

PostgreSQL transactions

Measured

Durable transfers and indexed account lookups against a fixed relational dataset.

RepeatOffered / stransactions/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001005.69 / 6.540 / 0Met workload limits
1500497.24.94 / 5.890 / 504Met workload limits
11000992.654.88 / 5.690 / 1322Met workload limits
130002984.344.7 / 5.820 / 2815Met workload limits
21001005.3 / 6.030 / 0Met workload limits
2500497.314.65 / 5.430 / 484Met workload limits
21000992.884.7 / 5.430 / 1281Met workload limits
230002985.524.76 / 5.890 / 2460Met workload limits

p95 ≤ 50 ms · p99 ≤ 100 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

PostgreSQL large dataset

Failed

The same transaction mix against ten million accounts; the dataset never shrinks to fit a plan.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 100 ms · p99 ≤ 250 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis cache

Measured

A mixed cache workload with 1 KiB values, expiration, misses and eviction.

RepeatOffered / soperations/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
1100010001.63 / 1.790 / 0Met workload limits
150004999.971.73 / 1.960 / 0Met workload limits
1100009999.051.45 / 1.810 / 165Met workload limits
12500021476.9914.9 / 17.640 / 633930load generator saturated
2100010001.57 / 1.730 / 0Met workload limits
250004999.971.7 / 1.930 / 0Met workload limits
2100009999.41.45 / 1.790 / 100Met workload limits
22500022141.1914.43 / 17.090 / 514436load generator saturated

p95 ≤ 10 ms · p99 ≤ 25 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Redis persistent queue

Measured

Enqueue, consume and acknowledge payloads with append-only persistence.

RepeatOffered / sjobs/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
11001003.77 / 4.110 / 0Met workload limits
15005002.91 / 3.190 / 0Met workload limits
11000999.992.99 / 3.540 / 0Met workload limits
130002999.693.49 / 8.960 / 52Met workload limits
21001003.87 / 4.160 / 0Met workload limits
25005002.87 / 3.230 / 0Met workload limits
21000999.992.99 / 3.360 / 0Met workload limits
230002999.553.45 / 6.610 / 78Met workload limits

p95 ≤ 20 ms · p99 ≤ 50 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Discourse community

Measured

Signed-in reading, search, posting and replies in a populated Rails forum.

RepeatOffered / sjourneys/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
121.96292.43 / 329.648 / 0error limit exceeded
154.69204.09 / 310.4856 / 0error limit exceeded
1109.19202.06 / 319.92146 / 0error limit exceeded
12522.68254.27 / 418.83416 / 0error limit exceeded
221.96249.24 / 313.68 / 0error limit exceeded
254.69223.3 / 343.0756 / 0error limit exceeded
2109.19225.54 / 346.51146 / 0error limit exceeded
22522.68379.07 / 532.07416 / 0error limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1500 ms · p99 ≤ 3000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n workflows

Measured

Webhook, transformation, branching and a verified final response.

RepeatOffered / sworkflows/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
15527.03 / 37.160 / 0Met workload limits
1202021.52 / 27.880 / 0Met workload limits
1505020.01 / 41.580 / 0Met workload limits
110074.643709.69 / 3784.280 / 4395latency limit exceeded
25526.48 / 30.590 / 0Met workload limits
2202023.15 / 28.170 / 0Met workload limits
25049.9922.67 / 49.420 / 0Met workload limits
210073.853672.95 / 3977.360 / 4532latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

n8n queue workers

Measured

Completed queued workflows including waiting time and worker execution.

RepeatOffered / sworkflows/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
15537.54 / 46.50 / 0Met workload limits
1202030.59 / 41.150 / 0Met workload limits
1505036.78 / 111.890 / 0Met workload limits
110086.383227.16 / 3324.980 / 2250latency limit exceeded
25535.67 / 46.030 / 0Met workload limits
2202030.9 / 38.710 / 0Met workload limits
2505038.32 / 110.770 / 0Met workload limits
210086.783195.2 / 3292.050 / 2172latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Ghost publishing

Measured

Readers, authenticated draft creation, publishing and image uploads.

RepeatOffered / sjourneys/sp95 / p99 msErrors / droppedResult
155398.45 / 472.080 / 0Met workload limits
12020486.41 / 570.530 / 0Met workload limits
15040.357013.92 / 7013.92805 / 691latency limit exceeded
110040.837013.92 / 7013.92790 / 9639latency limit exceeded
255440.25 / 476.810 / 0Met workload limits
22020501.18 / 643.010 / 0Met workload limits
25039.67013.92 / 7013.92754 / 899latency limit exceeded
210040.587013.92 / 7013.92869 / 9599latency limit exceeded

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Formbricks / Next.js

Failed

Public survey rendering, persisted responses and authenticated analysis.

RuntimeError: RuntimeError: TimeoutError:

p95 ≤ 1000 ms · p99 ≤ 2000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

GitHub self-hosted runner

Failed

A pinned build and test workflow with separate cold and warm dependency caches.

ValueError: set RUNNER_BENCHMARK_REPOSITORY and RUNNER_BENCHMARK_REVISION to the repository and commit hosting benchmark-runner.yml

p95 ≤ 3600000 ms · p99 ≤ 3600000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Odoo Community sales

Failed

Customer lookup, sales order confirmation, stock operations and reporting.

RuntimeError: fixture command in rc-odoo failed: -packages/odoo/cli/shell.py", line 148, in shell self.console(local_vars) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/odoo/cli/shell.py", line 82, in console exec(sys.stdin.read(), local_vars) File "<string>", line 1, in <module> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/rc-seed.py'

p95 ≤ 2000 ms · p99 ≤ 4000 ms · errors ≤ 1.0%

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Shared vCPU 0.2% 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
0.2% 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 8GB
Product line
Shared CPU
Location
Chicago, IL
vCPU
4 shared 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
$48.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.072
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 23, 2026, 08:44:12 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 21, 2026, 17:54:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 23, 2026, 08:44:06 UTC
Completed
Oct 23, 2026, 13:33:30 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 23, 2026, 13:33:30 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.35
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