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Linode Dedicated 4GB

Frankfurt, DE

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 9, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,119
Faster than 44% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,434
Faster than 21% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
82,395
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$36.00
40 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Dedicated 4GB
  • Location
    Frankfurt, DE
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 9, 2026, 15:10:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,119 1,434 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
1,127
38th of 61
1,382
46th of 57
Navigation
1,041
53rd of 61
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,123
38th of 61
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,231
38th of 61
Single-core only
Photo Library
996
39th of 61
1,230
50th of 57
Clang
1,054
45th of 61
1,460
46th of 57
Text Processing
958
48th of 61
1,282
49th of 57
Asset Compression
1,185
41st of 61
1,578
47th of 57
HDR
898
46th of 61
1,164
49th of 57
Photo Editor
851
52nd of 61
1,674
43rd of 57
Ray Tracer
1,276
34th of 61
1,830
44th of 57
Structure from Motion
1,290
35th of 61
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,173
37th of 61
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,180
37th of 61
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,279
38th of 61
Single-core only
Video Player
1,398
34th of 61
Single-core only

Rank among the 61 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 43.4 GB/s 3 0.588%
Scale higher is better 29.3 GB/s 3 0.814%
Add higher is better 31 GB/s 3 0.91%
Triad higher is better 31 GB/s 3 0.439%

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 220/s 3 1.23%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 14,484/s 3 0.091%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.16 GB/s 3 0.039%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.66 GB/s 3 0.0201%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.54 GB/s 3 0.208%

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 10.4 ms 3 1.08%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 190/s 3 1.32%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 18 ms 3 0.205%
Requests per second, average higher is better 190/s 3 1.01%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 160.7 MB/s (41,143 IOPS) 161.1 MB/s (41,252 IOPS) 321.9 MB/s (82,395 IOPS)
64K 1.38 GB/s (22,601 IOPS) 1.39 GB/s (22,720 IOPS) 2.77 GB/s (45,321 IOPS)
512K 3.74 GB/s (7,658 IOPS) 3.94 GB/s (8,065 IOPS) 7.68 GB/s (15,723 IOPS)
1M 3.89 GB/s (3,987 IOPS) 4.15 GB/s (4,253 IOPS) 8.05 GB/s (8,240 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 4.37 Gbps 7.19 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 4.38 Gbps 14.3 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 845 Mbps 1.45 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.07 Gbps 1.34 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.17 Gbps 2.84 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 9,556 0.105 ms
fdatasync 5,789 0.173 ms
fsync 4,065 0.246 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,146 0.241 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 3,828 0.261 ms
fdatasync 4,592 0.218 ms
fsync 3,667 0.273 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,127 0.47 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 4,076 0.245 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,222 0.45 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,103 0.906 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 335 2.99 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 156 6.42 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 3,364 0.297 ms
write, close, fsync 3,318 0.301 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 441,701 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 1,251 0.766 ms 1.01 ms 1.42 ms 2.83 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,227 2.32 ms 3.83 ms 5.11 ms 8.15 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,249 7.95 ms 22.2 ms 37.8 ms 65.3 ms 0
Read only 1 13,833 0.069 ms 0.088 ms 0.101 ms 0.163 ms 0
Read only 8 34,397 0.209 ms 0.336 ms 0.405 ms 1.23 ms 0
Read only 32 35,642 0.761 ms 1.16 ms 1.58 ms 3.44 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.91 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 1,100 0.84 ms 1.27 ms 1.87 ms 4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,947 2.59 ms 4.16 ms 6.04 ms 9.82 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,419 8.87 ms 14.1 ms 18.4 ms 25.6 ms 0
Read only 1 10,326 0.085 ms 0.122 ms 0.33 ms 0.892 ms 0
Read only 8 27,935 0.262 ms 0.42 ms 0.534 ms 2.17 ms 0
Read only 32 28,612 0.973 ms 1.58 ms 2.43 ms 4.63 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 18.2 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 1 264 5,281 3.49 ms 5.37 ms 8.13 ms 0
Read/write 8 548 10,952 14.5 ms 21.9 ms 28.2 ms 0
Read/write 32 578 11,567 53.9 ms 90.8 ms 113 ms 0
Read only 1 540 8,638 1.82 ms 2.18 ms 2.66 ms 0
Read only 8 1,051 16,815 7.43 ms 10.1 ms 11.7 ms 0
Read only 32 1,014 16,230 30.8 ms 39.7 ms 45.8 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 10.9 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 39,465 35,877 1.39 ms 3.55 ms 5.57 ms
1:1 set:get 37,882 18,941 1.53 ms 3.3 ms 5.82 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
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WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.37 1.16 s 1.26 s 1.31 s 0%
Shop page 1.37 1.58 s 1.75 s 1.77 s 0%
Category page 1.37 993 ms 1.52 s 1.62 s 0%
Product page 1.37 1.07 s 1.21 s 1.23 s 0%
Product search 1.37 924 ms 1.06 s 1.08 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.39 4.12 s 4.65 s 4.87 s 0%
Shop page 1.39 5.64 s 6.33 s 6.52 s 0%
Category page 1.39 4.9 s 5.82 s 6.2 s 0%
Product page 1.39 4.16 s 4.43 s 4.62 s 0%
Product search 1.39 3.9 s 4.33 s 4.46 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.57 1.21 s 1.52 s 2 s 0%
Cart 2.57 991 ms 1.18 s 1.7 s 0%
Checkout 2.57 774 ms 951 ms 1.48 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.67 4.05 s 4.96 s 5.1 s 0%
Cart 2.67 4.3 s 4.71 s 4.89 s 0%
Checkout 2.53 3.42 s 3.94 s 4.03 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.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated 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 7713 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2000 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
Dedicated 4GB
Product line
Dedicated CPU
Location
Frankfurt, DE
vCPU
2 dedicated 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
$36.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.054
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 9, 2026, 15:13:28 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 9, 2026, 15:10:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 9, 2026, 15:11:51 UTC
Completed
Oct 9, 2026, 16:35:27 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 9, 2026, 16:35:27 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.077
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