# Linode Dedicated 8GB

[Newark, NJ](https://www.rackcensus.com/locations/newark-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Newark")

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

[Linode](https://www.rackcensus.com/vps-providers/linode-benchmarks)[Dedicated 8GB](https://www.rackcensus.com/plans/gppofn-linode-dedicated-8gb-benchmarks?location=us-east)

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Provider

Linode

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Plan

Dedicated 8GB

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Location

Newark, NJ

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vCPU

4

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RAM

8 GB

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Storage

160 GB SSD

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Network

5 Gbps

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OS image

linode/ubuntu24.04

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Trigger

Scheduled

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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](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/568152) |

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 | 1,28026th of 44 | 2,93722nd of 44 |
| Navigation | 1,17433rd of 44 | Single-core only |
| HTML5 Browser | 1,15226th of 44 | Single-core only |
| PDF Viewer | 1,26226th of 44 | Single-core only |
| Photo Library | 1,11127th of 44 | 2,60826th of 44 |
| Clang | 1,11131st of 44 | 2,79625th of 44 |
| Text Processing | 1,16125th of 44 | 2,57525th of 44 |
| Asset Compression | 1,29426th of 44 | 3,31024th of 44 |
| HDR | 1,23724th of 44 | 2,42925th of 44 |
| Photo Editor | 87338th of 44 | 2,22129th of 44 |
| Ray Tracer | 1,27625th of 44 | 3,51924th of 44 |
| Structure from Motion | 1,26127th of 44 | Single-core only |
| Game Physics | 1,25624th of 44 | Single-core only |
| Video Encoder | 1,26924th of 44 | Single-core only |
| Audio Encoder | 1,40825th of 44 | Single-core only |
| Video Player | 1,39725th of 44 | Single-core only |

Rank among the 44 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Next.js | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Express | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Fastify | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| NestJS | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Nuxt | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| FastAPI | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Django | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Rails | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Laravel | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |
| Symfony | The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown. |

### 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 |
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| 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

Tests 61 of 61 done Live output 754 lines

Setup 4 cores, 7.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 297 MB/s at 4k, 5.49 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 2.15 Gbit/s send, 3.08 Gbit/s receive, 1 retried 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 1,213 17 of 17Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 2,770 9 of 9Done

Phoronix (memory, TLS, scheduler) 3 of 3Done

Datastores 5 of 5Done

Web frameworks 12 of 12Done

Finish Results saved 1 of 1Done

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