# Linode Dedicated 4GB

[Amsterdam, NL](https://www.rackcensus.com/locations/amsterdam-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Amsterdam")

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 9, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

1,307

Faster than 56% of 2 vCPU plans

Geekbench 7 multi-core

1,618

Faster than 36% of 2 vCPU plans

Disk 4K IOPS

85,716

fio random read and write, 50/50

Monthly price at test time

$36.00

45 multi-core points per dollar

Same price today

## Server

[Linode](https://www.rackcensus.com/vps-providers/linode-benchmarks)[Dedicated 4GB](https://www.rackcensus.com/plans/8mq8an-linode-dedicated-4gb-benchmarks?location=nl-ams)

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Provider

Linode

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Plan

Dedicated 4GB

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Location

Amsterdam, NL

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vCPU

2

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RAM

4 GB

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Storage

80 GB SSD

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Network

4 Gbps

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OS image

linode/ubuntu24.04

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Trigger

Scheduled

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Queued at

Oct 9, 2026, 21:13:00 UTC

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## Latest runs of this plan

- [Frankfurt, DE Oct 9, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/xlbns1-linode-dedicated-4gb-eu-central-benchmark)1,119
- [Fremont, CA Oct 7, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/zlywhw-linode-dedicated-4gb-us-west-benchmark)1,015
- [Newark, NJ Oct 6, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/ulff3h-linode-dedicated-4gb-us-east-benchmark)1,250

[Full history of this plan](https://www.rackcensus.com/plans/8mq8an-linode-dedicated-4gb-benchmarks/history)

## CPU

| Version | Single-core | Multi-core | Result link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geekbench 7 | 1,307 | 1,618 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/591685) |

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 | 1,38134th of 61 | 1,87642nd of 57 |
| Navigation | 1,32930th of 61 | Single-core only |
| HTML5 Browser | 1,29832nd of 61 | Single-core only |
| PDF Viewer | 1,31933rd of 61 | Single-core only |
| Photo Library | 1,16334th of 61 | 1,46145th of 57 |
| Clang | 1,15133rd of 61 | 1,45147th of 57 |
| Text Processing | 1,21332nd of 61 | 1,35846th of 57 |
| Asset Compression | 1,34834th of 61 | 1,72145th of 57 |
| HDR | 1,38428th of 61 | 1,53743rd of 57 |
| Photo Editor | 1,13140th of 61 | 1,73140th of 57 |
| Ray Tracer | 1,37328th of 61 | 1,89943rd of 57 |
| Structure from Motion | 1,31734th of 61 | Single-core only |
| Game Physics | 1,28332nd of 61 | Single-core only |
| Video Encoder | 1,34128th of 61 | Single-core only |
| Audio Encoder | 1,41034th of 61 | Single-core only |
| Video Player | 1,53429th 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 | 44.7 GB/s | 3 | 1.93% |
| Scale higher is better | 30.1 GB/s | 3 | 1.15% |
| Add higher is better | 32.4 GB/s | 3 | 1.36% |
| Triad higher is better | 32.3 GB/s | 3 | 1.59% |

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 | 222/s | 3 | 0.795% |
| RSA 4096 verifies higher is better | 14,517/s | 3 | 0.176% |
| SHA-256 higher is better | 1.16 GB/s | 3 | 0.121% |
| AES-256-GCM higher is better | 3.66 GB/s | 3 | 0.309% |
| ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better | 2.54 GB/s | 3 | 0.163% |

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 | 10.7 ms | 3 | 5.1% |
| Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better | 186/s | 3 | 5.1% |
| Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better | 22 ms | 3 | 28.6% |
| Requests per second, average higher is better | 181/s | 2 | 4.59% |

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

## Disk

| Block size | Read | Write | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4K | 167.2 MB/s (42,802 IOPS) | 167.6 MB/s (42,914 IOPS) | 334.8 MB/s (85,716 IOPS) |
| 64K | 1.44 GB/s (23,614 IOPS) | 1.45 GB/s (23,738 IOPS) | 2.89 GB/s (47,352 IOPS) |
| 512K | 4.27 GB/s (8,750 IOPS) | 4.5 GB/s (9,214 IOPS) | 8.77 GB/s (17,964 IOPS) |
| 1M | 4.55 GB/s (4,663 IOPS) | 4.86 GB/s (4,974 IOPS) | 9.41 GB/s (9,637 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 | 88.2 Mbps | 6.92 Gbps |
| Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) | IPv4 | 4.41 Gbps | 9.28 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) | IPv4 | 8.3 Mbps | 1.34 Gbps |
| Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | IPv4 | 8 Mbps | 1.24 Gbps |
| Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) | IPv4 | 11.3 Mbps | 2.79 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 | 10,212 | 0.098 ms |
| fdatasync | 5,670 | 0.176 ms |
| fsync | 3,665 | 0.273 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 3,909 | 0.256 ms |
| Two 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| open\_datasync | 5,180 | 0.193 ms |
| fdatasync | 5,167 | 0.194 ms |
| fsync | 3,519 | 0.284 ms |
| fsync\_writethrough | Not supported here | n/a |
| open\_sync | 2,052 | 0.487 ms |
| open\_sync at different write sizes |
| --- |
| 1 \* 16kB open\_sync write | 3,504 | 0.285 ms |
| 2 \* 8kB open\_sync writes | 1,486 | 0.673 ms |
| 4 \* 4kB open\_sync writes | 1,025 | 0.976 ms |
| 8 \* 2kB open\_sync writes | 379 | 2.64 ms |
| 16 \* 1kB open\_sync writes | 189 | 5.29 ms |
| fsync on a non-write descriptor |
| --- |
| write, fsync, close | 3,075 | 0.325 ms |
| write, close, fsync | 3,271 | 0.306 ms |
| Non-synced 8 kB writes |
| --- |
| write | 397,086 | 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 | 1,222 | 0.794 ms | 0.948 ms | 1.26 ms | 3.55 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 3,064 | 2.41 ms | 4.09 ms | 5.8 ms | 15.5 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 3,102 | 8.33 ms | 22.9 ms | 39.1 ms | 66.9 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 13,218 | 0.072 ms | 0.094 ms | 0.107 ms | 0.26 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 34,134 | 0.209 ms | 0.33 ms | 0.406 ms | 0.9 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 35,212 | 0.748 ms | 1.15 ms | 1.53 ms | 2.93 ms | 0 |

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.73 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 | 1,074 | 0.879 ms | 1.21 ms | 1.6 ms | 3.29 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 8 | 2,796 | 2.75 ms | 4.24 ms | 5.81 ms | 10.6 ms | 0 |
| Read/write (TPC-B like) | 32 | 3,518 | 8.54 ms | 13.8 ms | 18.5 ms | 27.8 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 9,401 | 0.093 ms | 0.143 ms | 0.399 ms | 0.949 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 26,248 | 0.272 ms | 0.463 ms | 0.698 ms | 2.26 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 27,213 | 1 ms | 1.63 ms | 2.45 ms | 4.74 ms | 0 |

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 16.8 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 | 267 | 5,332 | 3.55 ms | 5.09 ms | 7.99 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 8 | 522 | 10,450 | 14.7 ms | 24.8 ms | 34.3 ms | 0 |
| Read/write | 32 | 573 | 11,466 | 53.9 ms | 92.4 ms | 121 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 1 | 542 | 8,679 | 1.79 ms | 2.22 ms | 2.62 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 8 | 1,052 | 16,830 | 7.3 ms | 10.8 ms | 14 ms | 0 |
| Read only | 32 | 1,052 | 16,825 | 29.7 ms | 40.4 ms | 49.2 ms | 0 |

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 10.3 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

### Redis

#### memtier

| Mix | Operations/s | Hits/s | Median | p99 | p99.9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1:10 set:get | 37,925 | 34,477 | 1.42 ms | 4.22 ms | 6.56 ms |
| 1:1 set:get | 37,578 | 18,789 | 1.43 ms | 4.13 ms | 6.4 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 | 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 fastify-postgres | 4,467 | 6,521 | 15,250 | 117 ms |
| NestJS nestjs | 2,846 | 3,031 | 9,298 | 167 ms |
| Nuxt nuxt | 3,874 | 5,753 | 12,693 | 465 ms |
| FastAPI fastapi | 2,220 | 2,605 | 9,405 | 570 ms |
| Django django-postgresql | 1,085 | 1,314 | 2,747 | 460 ms |
| Rails rails | 1,823 | 2,481 | 7,848 | 278 ms |
| Laravel laravel | 514 | 523 | 954 | 546 ms |
| Symfony symfony | 632 | 704 | 1,828 | 662 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.

### WooCommerce

#### Page mix

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.42 | 1.1 s | 1.38 s | 1.45 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.42 | 1.46 s | 1.75 s | 1.81 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.42 | 956 ms | 1.52 s | 1.75 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.42 | 1.03 s | 1.25 s | 1.41 s | 0% |
| Product search | 1.42 | 877 ms | 1.07 s | 1.14 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Home page | 1.37 | 4.16 s | 5.23 s | 5.46 s | 0% |
| Shop page | 1.37 | 5.6 s | 6.54 s | 6.78 s | 0% |
| Category page | 1.37 | 4.91 s | 5.92 s | 6.03 s | 0% |
| Product page | 1.37 | 4.27 s | 4.77 s | 4.88 s | 0% |
| Product search | 1.37 | 3.91 s | 4.43 s | 4.48 s | 0% |

#### Cart and checkout

| Step | Requests/s | Median | p95 | p99 | Error rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 2.68 | 1.23 s | 1.53 s | 1.72 s | 0% |
| Cart | 2.68 | 978 ms | 1.36 s | 1.47 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 2.68 | 766 ms | 995 ms | 1.17 s | 0% |
| 32 virtual users |
| --- |
| Add to cart | 2.69 | 4.06 s | 5.07 s | 5.27 s | 0% |
| Cart | 2.69 | 4.32 s | 4.93 s | 5.14 s | 0% |
| Checkout | 2.56 | 3.34 s | 3.85 s | 4.04 s | 0% |

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 63 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

## Advertised vs. measured

| Spec | 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:** Amsterdam, NL

**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, 21:15:02 UTC

**Parser version:** 5

## Run timeline

**Queued:** Oct 9, 2026, 21:13:00 UTC

**Server created:** Oct 9, 2026, 21:14:56 UTC

**First update from the server:** Oct 9, 2026, 21:14:56 UTC

**Completed:** Oct 9, 2026, 22:36:06 UTC

**Server deleted:** Oct 9, 2026, 22:36:06 UTC

**Cost of this run:** $0.075

Tests 61 of 61 done Live output 753 lines

Setup 2 cores, 3.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 351 MB/s at 4k, 10.10 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 11 Mbit/s send, 2.79 Gbit/s receive, 1 retried 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 1,307 17 of 17Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 1,618 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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