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Gcore CPU-Optimized G2 2 vCPU / 2 GB

Manassas

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 16, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,170
Faster than 54% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
1,202
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€23.98 EUR
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Gcore
  • Plan
    CPU-Optimized G2 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 16, 2026, 03:50:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,170 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
1,074
121st of 191
Single-core only
Navigation
1,349
75th of 191
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,196
84th of 191
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,338
85th of 191
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,073
98th of 191
Single-core only
Clang
1,142
85th of 191
Single-core only
Text Processing
1,163
83rd of 191
Single-core only
Asset Compression
880
149th of 191
Single-core only
HDR
1,062
95th of 191
Single-core only
Photo Editor
1,425
83rd of 191
Single-core only
Ray Tracer
1,136
101st of 191
Single-core only
Structure from Motion
1,398
85th of 191
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,094
108th of 191
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,133
102nd of 191
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,093
120th of 191
Single-core only
Video Player
1,301
95th 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 45.7 GB/s 3 2.25%
Scale higher is better 25.4 GB/s 3 0.874%
Add higher is better 27 GB/s 3 0.234%
Triad higher is better 27.2 GB/s 3 0.977%

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 387/s 3 0.176%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 24,867/s 3 0.449%
SHA-256 higher is better 450 MB/s 3 0.413%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 18.5 GB/s 3 0.593%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 4.98 GB/s 3 0.59%

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 4.25 ms 3 0%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 471/s 3 0.123%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 7.45 ms 3 7.66%
Requests per second, average higher is better 469/s 3 0.0444%

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 (598 IOPS) 2.4 MB/s (604 IOPS) 4.7 MB/s (1,202 IOPS)
64K 37.4 MB/s (599 IOPS) 37.8 MB/s (604 IOPS) 75.2 MB/s (1,203 IOPS)
512K 48.7 MB/s (97 IOPS) 51.6 MB/s (103 IOPS) 100.3 MB/s (200 IOPS)
1M 48.6 MB/s (48 IOPS) 51.7 MB/s (51 IOPS) 100.3 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 1.21 Gbps 1.35 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.41 Gbps 1.37 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 568 Mbps 900 Mbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.4 Gbps 1.4 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.5 Gbps 1.45 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 453 2.21 ms
fdatasync 406 2.46 ms
fsync 149 6.72 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 150 6.67 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 217 4.61 ms
fdatasync 414 2.41 ms
fsync 137 7.28 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 61.8 16.2 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 151 6.61 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 66.9 14.9 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 35.3 28.3 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 21.3 47 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 6.59 152 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 111 8.99 ms
write, close, fsync 130 7.68 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 836,793 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) 1 366 1.98 ms 5.8 ms 11.6 ms 116 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 927 5.16 ms 19.7 ms 60.9 ms 531 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,319 11.5 ms 85.6 ms 205 ms 675 ms 0
Read only 1 28,846 0.034 ms 0.043 ms 0.05 ms 0.079 ms 0
Read only 8 56,159 0.13 ms 0.205 ms 0.244 ms 0.467 ms 0
Read only 32 53,697 0.515 ms 0.763 ms 1.05 ms 1.95 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.81 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) 1 249 2.49 ms 5.86 ms 14.7 ms 169 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 371 11.8 ms 84.5 ms 172 ms 327 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 354 71.7 ms 256 ms 383 ms 592 ms 0
Read only 1 601 1.06 ms 4.58 ms 7.61 ms 15.5 ms 0
Read only 8 522 8.26 ms 43.4 ms 166 ms 283 ms 0
Read only 32 76.4 359 ms 966 ms 1.17 s n/a 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 77.3 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 4.59 91.8 109 ms 658 ms 733 ms 0
Read/write 8 7.51 150 943 ms 2.59 s 3.64 s 0
Read/write 32 12.5 249 2.54 s 4.94 s 6.36 s 0
Read only 1 756 12,102 0.989 ms 1.79 ms 7.99 ms 0
Read only 8 1,774 28,380 4.41 ms 5.99 ms 7.04 ms 0
Read only 32 1,645 26,328 19.6 ms 25.3 ms 27.7 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 219 s. 60 to 63 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 82,350 74,863 0.407 ms 2.62 ms 4.45 ms
1:1 set:get 80,312 40,156 0.415 ms 2.64 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 564 2,123 3,019 796 ms
Express express-postgresjs 7,137 10,569 38,344 86.1 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 6,857 11,081 45,162 66.5 ms
NestJS nestjs 5,322 5,639 22,421 93 ms
Nuxt nuxt 6,167 10,325 35,349 147 ms
FastAPI fastapi 3,878 4,905 19,126 312 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,436 1,683 3,683 234 ms
Rails rails 2,301 3,332 14,629 130 ms
Laravel laravel 840 870 1,540 317 ms
Symfony symfony 1,003 1,103 2,944 265 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 2.28 695 ms 738 ms 791 ms 0%
Shop page 2.28 946 ms 991 ms 1.01 s 0%
Category page 2.28 588 ms 928 ms 939 ms 0%
Product page 2.28 644 ms 710 ms 865 ms 0%
Product search 2.28 552 ms 625 ms 649 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.31 2.52 s 2.81 s 2.87 s 0%
Shop page 2.31 3.34 s 3.78 s 3.83 s 0%
Category page 2.31 2.96 s 3.47 s 3.64 s 0%
Product page 2.31 2.55 s 2.74 s 2.84 s 0%
Product search 2.31 2.38 s 2.59 s 2.67 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 4.44 741 ms 857 ms 893 ms 0%
Cart 4.44 598 ms 688 ms 705 ms 0%
Checkout 4.44 455 ms 518 ms 539 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 4.46 2.46 s 3.02 s 3.09 s 0%
Cart 4.46 2.55 s 2.85 s 2.99 s 0%
Checkout 4.46 2.03 s 2.3 s 2.37 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 61 to 69 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 2.38 187 ms 211 ms 405 ms 0%
Topic JSON 1.2 96.3 ms 109 ms 121 ms 0%
Home page 1.2 166 ms 192 ms 366 ms 0%
Categories page 0.594 194 ms 230 ms 289 ms 0%
User activity page 0.594 113 ms 125 ms 146 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Topic page 4.33 411 ms 505 ms 736 ms 0%
Topic JSON 2.17 215 ms 264 ms 277 ms 0%
Home page 2.17 367 ms 601 ms 890 ms 0%
Categories page 1.1 429 ms 621 ms 905 ms 0%
User activity page 1.07 252 ms 309 ms 418 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Topic page 3.81 1.53 s 1.89 s 2.05 s 0%
Topic JSON 1.91 1.32 s 1.67 s 1.78 s 0%
Home page 1.9 1.48 s 1.79 s 1.95 s 0%
Categories page 0.932 1.59 s 1.79 s 1.85 s 0%
User activity page 0.948 1.32 s 1.55 s 1.62 s 0%

Anonymous

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
16 virtual users
Topic page 62.1 50.6 ms 140 ms 594 ms 0.748%
Topic JSON 31.1 50.2 ms 150 ms 675 ms 0.747%
Home page 31.1 50 ms 145 ms 666 ms 0.961%
Categories page 15.6 48.7 ms 143 ms 667 ms 1.17%
User activity page 15.5 158 ms 312 ms 806 ms 1.07%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 60 to 62 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 423 MB of it. The container peaked at 1,478 MB.

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 8.76 33.8 ms 37.9 ms 53.1 ms 0%
Post page 21.9 16.5 ms 19.3 ms 32.9 ms 0%
Tag page 4.38 22 ms 26.1 ms 43.5 ms 0%
Author page 4.38 22.7 ms 25.3 ms 28.9 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.38 27 ms 31.4 ms 43.8 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 10.4 102 ms 134 ms 162 ms 0%
Post page 26.1 69.7 ms 99.6 ms 137 ms 0%
Tag page 5.24 59.1 ms 91.2 ms 114 ms 0%
Author page 5.23 65.5 ms 93.2 ms 120 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.23 70 ms 94.9 ms 126 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 10.9 366 ms 451 ms 481 ms 0%
Post page 27.3 306 ms 388 ms 420 ms 0%
Tag page 5.46 196 ms 264 ms 292 ms 0%
Author page 5.48 190 ms 257 ms 289 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.48 210 ms 289 ms 310 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 3.78 31.9 ms 43.6 ms 55.6 ms 0%
Post editor 11.4 12 ms 15.1 ms 21.3 ms 0%
Saving a draft 11.4 44.1 ms 71.4 ms 144 ms 0%
Member list 3.78 37.5 ms 44.1 ms 57.8 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 4.91 38.6 ms 47.1 ms 87.2 ms 0%
Post editor 14.8 15.3 ms 21.9 ms 34.8 ms 0%
Saving a draft 14.8 211 ms 336 ms 414 ms 0%
Member list 4.91 45.1 ms 53 ms 78.9 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 362 MB and MySQL at 586 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.7 76.9 ms 80.2 ms 97.7 ms 0%
Blog index 1.7 260 ms 271 ms 298 ms 0%
Blog post 5.07 25 ms 38.5 ms 40.4 ms 0%
Bread page 5.07 27.5 ms 29.9 ms 32.4 ms 0%
Location page 1.7 26.3 ms 28.7 ms 29.9 ms 0%
Site search 1.7 46.3 ms 73.5 ms 80.5 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.74 202 ms 282 ms 311 ms 0%
Blog index 2.77 708 ms 889 ms 927 ms 0%
Blog post 8.21 59.1 ms 98.8 ms 146 ms 0%
Bread page 8.23 63.9 ms 92.1 ms 103 ms 0%
Location page 2.77 61.1 ms 84.7 ms 100 ms 0%
Site search 2.74 89.2 ms 181 ms 214 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.63 705 ms 911 ms 1.02 s 0%
Blog index 2.7 1.83 s 2.08 s 2.16 s 0%
Blog post 7.91 396 ms 573 ms 677 ms 0%
Bread page 7.93 417 ms 589 ms 681 ms 0%
Location page 2.7 430 ms 584 ms 670 ms 0%
Site search 2.63 481 ms 664 ms 698 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.704 82.4 ms 87.2 ms 105 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.42 325 ms 346 ms 468 ms 0%
Page editor 2.11 157 ms 261 ms 313 ms 0%
Image library 0.704 60.6 ms 66.6 ms 582 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.704 33.5 ms 71.5 ms 73.4 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 1.19 273 ms 464 ms 499 ms 0%
Page explorer 2.42 744 ms 1.21 s 1.36 s 0%
Page editor 3.67 351 ms 680 ms 781 ms 0%
Image library 1.23 209 ms 434 ms 545 ms 0%
Admin page search 1.19 91.2 ms 289 ms 423 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 299 MB, Postgres at 176 MB, and Redis at 26 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Shared vCPU 0% 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 (Icelake)
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% 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 G2 2 vCPU / 2 GB
Product line
CPU-Optimized G2
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 16, 2026, 03:52:26 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 16, 2026, 03:50:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 16, 2026, 03:50:50 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 16, 2026, 03:50:50 UTC
Completed
Oct 16, 2026, 05:48:03 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 16, 2026, 05:48:03 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.066 EUR
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