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Scaleway POP2-HC-2C-4G

Paris 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 16, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,585
Faster than 85% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,947
Faster than 43% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
5,125
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
€38.84 EUR
43 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Scaleway
  • Plan
    POP2-HC-2C-4G
  • Location
    Paris 1
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
  • Network
    400 Mbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu_noble
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 16, 2026, 12:24:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,585 1,947 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
1,666
41st of 216
2,206
90th of 147
Navigation
1,592
49th of 216
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,549
39th of 216
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,657
41st of 216
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,451
52nd of 216
1,859
103rd of 147
Clang
1,383
46th of 216
1,753
108th of 147
Text Processing
1,451
38th of 216
1,617
109th of 147
Asset Compression
1,602
42nd of 216
2,059
105th of 147
HDR
1,585
44th of 216
1,828
100th of 147
Photo Editor
1,654
59th of 216
2,075
97th of 147
Ray Tracer
1,642
31st of 216
2,273
96th of 147
Structure from Motion
1,588
67th of 216
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,542
40th of 216
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,560
40th of 216
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,702
37th of 216
Single-core only
Video Player
1,783
35th of 216
Single-core only

Rank among the 216 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 45.5 GB/s 3 0.185%
Scale higher is better 29.8 GB/s 3 1.14%
Add higher is better 32.4 GB/s 3 0.573%
Triad higher is better 32.2 GB/s 3 0.158%

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 266/s 3 0.0652%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 17,320/s 3 0.0705%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.37 GB/s 3 0.225%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 4.36 GB/s 3 0.103%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 3.04 GB/s 3 0.0498%

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 8.81 ms 3 1.68%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 230/s 3 0.87%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 15.3 ms 3 1.26%
Requests per second, average higher is better 228/s 3 0.942%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 10 MB/s (2,558 IOPS) 10 MB/s (2,567 IOPS) 20 MB/s (5,125 IOPS)
64K 159.5 MB/s (2,551 IOPS) 160.3 MB/s (2,564 IOPS) 319.8 MB/s (5,115 IOPS)
512K 387.1 MB/s (774 IOPS) 407.6 MB/s (815 IOPS) 794.7 MB/s (1,589 IOPS)
1M 382.1 MB/s (382 IOPS) 407.6 MB/s (407 IOPS) 789.7 MB/s (789 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 643 Mbps 6.76 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 646 Mbps 12.8 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 613 Mbps 1.46 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 605 Mbps 1.41 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 625 Mbps 3.19 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 1,047 0.955 ms
fdatasync 1,009 0.991 ms
fsync 504 1.98 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 510 1.96 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 524 1.91 ms
fdatasync 958 1.04 ms
fsync 508 1.97 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 263 3.8 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 526 1.9 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 261 3.83 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 121 8.23 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 63.7 15.7 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 32.9 30.4 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 502 1.99 ms
write, close, fsync 521 1.92 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 474,088 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) 1 763 1.18 ms 1.68 ms 3.05 ms 12.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,509 2.51 ms 5.99 ms 11.1 ms 62.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,202 7.23 ms 25.5 ms 48.4 ms 129 ms 0
Read only 1 19,070 0.048 ms 0.068 ms 0.082 ms 0.169 ms 0
Read only 8 40,481 0.175 ms 0.283 ms 0.353 ms 0.692 ms 0
Read only 32 41,547 0.635 ms 0.97 ms 1.3 ms 2.51 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.51 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) 1 603 1.29 ms 2.2 ms 6.98 ms 20.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,640 3.07 ms 10.9 ms 39.3 ms 228 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 2,441 8.22 ms 41.3 ms 104 ms 260 ms 0
Read only 1 10,896 0.062 ms 0.096 ms 0.226 ms 0.77 ms 0
Read only 8 31,542 0.225 ms 0.363 ms 0.466 ms 1.68 ms 0
Read only 32 33,093 0.832 ms 1.25 ms 1.81 ms 3.41 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 21.5 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 1 145 2,902 5.37 ms 11.9 ms 27.7 ms 0
Read/write 8 497 9,947 13.2 ms 29.2 ms 62.2 ms 0
Read/write 32 638 12,767 45 ms 84.5 ms 193 ms 0
Read only 1 747 11,954 1.3 ms 1.58 ms 2.18 ms 0
Read only 8 1,336 21,368 5.77 ms 7.84 ms 8.74 ms 0
Read only 32 1,314 21,032 23.9 ms 29.7 ms 32.5 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 11.6 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 47,519 43,198 1.04 ms 3.36 ms 5.06 ms
1:1 set:get 46,951 23,475 1.04 ms 3.38 ms 5.15 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 521 1,834 2,489 779 ms
Express express-postgresjs 5,401 7,655 19,447 96 ms
Fastify fastify-postgres 5,262 7,957 20,002 89.3 ms
NestJS nestjs 3,474 3,937 11,450 120 ms
Nuxt nuxt 4,796 6,871 16,694 130 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,724 3,552 12,178 354 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,422 1,667 3,547 228 ms
Rails rails 2,279 3,145 10,037 137 ms
Laravel laravel 641 700 1,255 408 ms
Symfony symfony 797 877 2,280 332 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 1.74 917 ms 1.07 s 1.09 s 0%
Shop page 1.74 1.23 s 1.44 s 1.48 s 0%
Category page 1.74 791 ms 1.28 s 1.36 s 0%
Product page 1.74 839 ms 998 ms 1.02 s 0%
Product search 1.74 726 ms 906 ms 937 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.81 3.32 s 3.71 s 3.78 s 0%
Shop page 1.81 4.4 s 4.95 s 5.08 s 0%
Category page 1.81 3.89 s 4.49 s 4.71 s 0%
Product page 1.8 3.33 s 3.64 s 3.73 s 0%
Product search 1.42 3.13 s 3.39 s 3.6 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 3.48 930 ms 1.08 s 1.11 s 0%
Cart 3.48 761 ms 885 ms 899 ms 0%
Checkout 3.48 600 ms 705 ms 717 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 3.52 3.07 s 3.74 s 3.88 s 0%
Cart 3.52 3.25 s 3.62 s 3.73 s 0%
Checkout 3.52 2.59 s 2.97 s 3.12 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Discourse

Signed in

Skipped: not enough disk, needs 7394 MB and 4368 MB is free

Anonymous

Skipped: not enough disk, needs 7465 MB and 4368 MB is free

Ghost

Readers

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 9.91 28.3 ms 33.3 ms 50.6 ms 0%
Post page 24.7 14.7 ms 19.5 ms 27.8 ms 0%
Tag page 4.95 19.9 ms 24.4 ms 37.1 ms 0%
Author page 4.95 19.8 ms 22.3 ms 34.8 ms 0%
RSS feed 4.95 25.1 ms 28.9 ms 35.6 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 11.1 91.6 ms 118 ms 150 ms 0%
Post page 27.8 66.9 ms 90 ms 105 ms 0%
Tag page 5.58 58.5 ms 78.3 ms 114 ms 0%
Author page 5.54 62.6 ms 83.6 ms 91.4 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.53 67.2 ms 89.9 ms 103 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 10.8 370 ms 448 ms 477 ms 0%
Post page 27 311 ms 392 ms 427 ms 0%
Tag page 5.4 202 ms 267 ms 291 ms 0%
Author page 5.39 200 ms 257 ms 287 ms 0%
RSS feed 5.39 207 ms 271 ms 307 ms 0%

Staff in Ghost Admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Post list 4.73 29.8 ms 39.6 ms 48.7 ms 0%
Post editor 14.2 11.3 ms 15.1 ms 21 ms 0%
Saving a draft 14.2 31 ms 40.2 ms 65 ms 0%
Member list 4.73 35.6 ms 48.1 ms 64.9 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Post list 5.55 38.6 ms 50.5 ms 77 ms 0%
Post editor 16.7 19.5 ms 27.2 ms 36.6 ms 0%
Saving a draft 16.7 179 ms 229 ms 385 ms 0%
Member list 5.58 49.5 ms 58.7 ms 65.2 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 309 MB and MySQL at 624 MB.

Wagtail

Visitors

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Home page 1.88 70.7 ms 72.8 ms 74.3 ms 0%
Blog index 1.86 252 ms 259 ms 267 ms 0%
Blog post 5.59 21.9 ms 33.6 ms 35.8 ms 0%
Bread page 5.59 24.4 ms 26.4 ms 27.6 ms 0%
Location page 1.86 23.1 ms 25.1 ms 25.4 ms 0%
Site search 1.86 38.4 ms 62.9 ms 65 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Home page 2.55 232 ms 298 ms 350 ms 0%
Blog index 2.59 750 ms 935 ms 989 ms 0%
Blog post 7.67 63.8 ms 111 ms 133 ms 0%
Bread page 7.7 73 ms 96 ms 107 ms 0%
Location page 2.59 71.7 ms 94.3 ms 105 ms 0%
Site search 2.55 102 ms 185 ms 207 ms 0%
16 virtual users
Home page 2.59 730 ms 987 ms 1.19 s 0%
Blog index 2.64 1.7 s 2.11 s 2.69 s 0%
Blog post 7.83 405 ms 639 ms 767 ms 0%
Bread page 7.78 421 ms 663 ms 891 ms 0%
Location page 2.65 402 ms 621 ms 755 ms 0%
Site search 2.6 484 ms 760 ms 925 ms 0%

Editors in the Wagtail admin

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
1 virtual user
Admin dashboard 0.71 74.5 ms 77.9 ms 92.8 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.45 338 ms 412 ms 490 ms 0%
Page editor 2.15 157 ms 196 ms 318 ms 0%
Image library 0.71 59.7 ms 62.7 ms 450 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.71 31.1 ms 69.3 ms 73.1 ms 0%
4 virtual users
Admin dashboard 0.888 312 ms 531 ms 553 ms 0%
Page explorer 1.84 1.09 s 1.6 s 1.87 s 0%
Page editor 2.76 513 ms 763 ms 842 ms 0%
Image library 0.921 276 ms 440 ms 511 ms 0%
Admin page search 0.888 131 ms 318 ms 409 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 295 MB, Postgres at 147 MB, and Redis at 8 MB.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0.3% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 8.9 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 7543 32-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2795 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
8.9 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0.3% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-142-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
No

Advertised at test time

Plan
POP2-HC-2C-4G
Product line
Specialized
Location
Paris 1
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
Virtualization
KVM
Network
400 Mbps
Transfer
Unmetered
Port 25
Unknown
Monthly price at test time
€38.84 EUR
Hourly price at test time
€0.053 EUR
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 16, 2026, 12:24:47 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 16, 2026, 12:24:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 16, 2026, 12:24:40 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 16, 2026, 12:24:40 UTC
Completed
Oct 16, 2026, 13:57:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 16, 2026, 13:57:00 UTC
Cost of this run
€0.082 EUR
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