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Linode Dedicated 8GB

Newark, NJ

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 7, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,213
Geekbench 7 multi-core
2,770
Disk 4K IOPS
72,580
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$72.00
38 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Dedicated 8GB
  • Location
    Newark, NJ
  • vCPU
    4
  • RAM
    8 GB
  • Storage
    160 GB SSD
  • Network
    5 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 7, 2026, 02:10:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core Result link
Geekbench 7 1,213 2,770 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
1,280
24th of 41
2,937
22nd of 41
Navigation
1,174
31st of 41
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,152
24th of 41
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,262
24th of 41
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,111
25th of 41
2,608
25th of 41
Clang
1,111
29th of 41
2,796
25th of 41
Text Processing
1,161
23rd of 41
2,575
24th of 41
Asset Compression
1,294
24th of 41
3,310
24th of 41
HDR
1,237
22nd of 41
2,429
24th of 41
Photo Editor
873
36th of 41
2,221
27th of 41
Ray Tracer
1,276
23rd of 41
3,519
24th of 41
Structure from Motion
1,261
25th of 41
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,256
22nd of 41
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,269
22nd of 41
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,408
23rd of 41
Single-core only
Video Player
1,397
23rd of 41
Single-core only

Rank among the 41 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 48.4 GB/s 3 0.445%
Scale higher is better 39.4 GB/s 3 0.438%
Add higher is better 41.5 GB/s 3 0.26%
Triad higher is better 41.9 GB/s 3 0.719%

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 442/s 3 1.23%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 28,882/s 3 1.33%
SHA-256 higher is better 2.3 GB/s 3 2.04%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 7.34 GB/s 3 0.078%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 5.08 GB/s 3 0.277%

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 10.8 ms 3 1.04%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 371/s 3 1.21%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 18.6 ms 3 2.6%
Requests per second, average higher is better 368/s 3 0.858%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 141.6 MB/s (36,242 IOPS) 141.9 MB/s (36,338 IOPS) 283.5 MB/s (72,580 IOPS)
64K 1.18 GB/s (19,270 IOPS) 1.18 GB/s (19,371 IOPS) 2.36 GB/s (38,641 IOPS)
512K 1.94 GB/s (3,978 IOPS) 2.05 GB/s (4,189 IOPS) 3.99 GB/s (8,167 IOPS)
1M 2.48 GB/s (2,537 IOPS) 2.64 GB/s (2,706 IOPS) 5.12 GB/s (5,243 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 1.89 Gbps 3.08 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 2.15 Gbps 2.99 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 855 Mbps 1.02 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 2.2 Gbps 3.47 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 5.51 Gbps 8.24 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 9,393 0.106 ms
fdatasync 4,965 0.201 ms
fsync 3,209 0.312 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,941 0.254 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 3,054 0.327 ms
fdatasync 3,927 0.255 ms
fsync 3,181 0.314 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 1,879 0.532 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 3,295 0.304 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,769 0.565 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,005 0.995 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 312 3.21 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 161 6.21 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,775 0.36 ms
write, close, fsync 1,266 0.79 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 393,053 0.003 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 1,276 0.775 ms 1.03 ms 1.39 ms 3.12 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,719 1.45 ms 2.9 ms 4.44 ms 18.8 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 4,774 5.07 ms 16.6 ms 29.7 ms 55.1 ms 0
Read only 1 15,509 0.055 ms 0.088 ms 0.25 ms 0.293 ms 0
Read only 8 59,076 0.113 ms 0.286 ms 0.384 ms 0.606 ms 0
Read only 32 62,499 0.412 ms 0.783 ms 1.19 ms 1.81 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.67 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 1,143 0.822 ms 1.13 ms 1.69 ms 11.4 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 4,747 1.54 ms 2.65 ms 4.09 ms 11 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 5,599 5.34 ms 9.19 ms 11.9 ms 19 ms 0
Read only 1 11,745 0.074 ms 0.124 ms 0.281 ms 0.336 ms 0
Read only 8 47,361 0.143 ms 0.341 ms 0.462 ms 0.905 ms 0
Read only 32 51,473 0.537 ms 0.943 ms 1.41 ms 2.79 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 27.4 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 1 271 5,413 3.43 ms 5.09 ms 9.73 ms 0
Read/write 8 884 17,682 8.58 ms 14.2 ms 20.4 ms 0
Read/write 32 1,113 22,262 27.7 ms 48.3 ms 62.2 ms 0
Read only 1 614 9,826 1.52 ms 2.18 ms 2.62 ms 0
Read only 8 2,216 35,450 3.49 ms 4.82 ms 6.1 ms 0
Read only 32 2,137 34,192 14.7 ms 20 ms 23.1 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 6.3 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 45,623 41,475 1.36 ms 2.51 ms 3.26 ms
1:1 set:get 46,414 23,207 1.33 ms 2.46 ms 3.12 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 4 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 2.79 590 ms 724 ms 762 ms 0%
Shop page 2.79 781 ms 940 ms 985 ms 0%
Category page 2.79 495 ms 813 ms 899 ms 0%
Product page 2.79 515 ms 693 ms 720 ms 0%
Product search 2.79 456 ms 591 ms 633 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 2.74 2.22 s 2.46 s 2.56 s 0%
Shop page 2.74 2.88 s 3.29 s 3.34 s 0%
Category page 2.74 2.31 s 2.86 s 3.2 s 0%
Product page 2.74 2.15 s 2.39 s 2.44 s 0%
Product search 2.74 1.97 s 2.21 s 2.26 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 5.29 601 ms 779 ms 868 ms 0%
Cart 5.29 504 ms 660 ms 708 ms 0%
Checkout 5.29 402 ms 547 ms 587 ms 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 5.16 2.23 s 2.63 s 2.75 s 0%
Cart 5.16 2.14 s 2.46 s 2.59 s 0%
Checkout 5.16 1.76 s 2.11 s 2.19 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 62 to 70 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Spec Advertised Measured
vCPU 4 4
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% 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% 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 8GB
Product line
Dedicated CPU
Location
Newark, NJ
vCPU
4 dedicated 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
$72.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.11
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 7, 2026, 02:12:10 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 7, 2026, 02:10:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 7, 2026, 02:12:03 UTC
Completed
Oct 7, 2026, 03:29:41 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 7, 2026, 03:29:41 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.14
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