# Linode Dedicated 4GB

[Frankfurt, DE](https://www.rackcensus.com/locations/frankfurt-vps-benchmarks "Every provider in Frankfurt")

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

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

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Provider

Linode

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Plan

Dedicated 4GB

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Location

Frankfurt, DE

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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, 15:10:00 UTC

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## Latest runs of this plan

- [Amsterdam, NL Oct 9, 2026](https://www.rackcensus.com/benchmarks/p7r7c5-linode-dedicated-4gb-nl-ams-benchmark)1,307
- [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 | 1,119 | 1,434 | [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/589319) |

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 | 1,12738th of 61 | 1,38246th of 57 |
| Navigation | 1,04153rd of 61 | Single-core only |
| HTML5 Browser | 1,12338th of 61 | Single-core only |
| PDF Viewer | 1,23138th of 61 | Single-core only |
| Photo Library | 99639th of 61 | 1,23050th of 57 |
| Clang | 1,05445th of 61 | 1,46046th of 57 |
| Text Processing | 95848th of 61 | 1,28249th of 57 |
| Asset Compression | 1,18541st of 61 | 1,57847th of 57 |
| HDR | 89846th of 61 | 1,16449th of 57 |
| Photo Editor | 85152nd of 61 | 1,67443rd of 57 |
| Ray Tracer | 1,27634th of 61 | 1,83044th of 57 |
| Structure from Motion | 1,29035th of 61 | Single-core only |
| Game Physics | 1,17337th of 61 | Single-core only |
| Video Encoder | 1,18037th of 61 | Single-core only |
| Audio Encoder | 1,27938th of 61 | Single-core only |
| Video Player | 1,39834th 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 |
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| 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 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

| 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:** 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

Tests 61 of 61 done Live output 753 lines

Setup 2 cores, 3.8 GiB RAM 4 of 4Done

Disk (fio) 337 MB/s at 4k, 8.64 GB/s at 1m 5 of 5Done

Network, IPv4 (iperf3) Median 2.17 Gbit/s send, 2.84 Gbit/s receive 5 of 5Done

Geekbench 7, single-core Score 1,119 17 of 17Done

Geekbench 7, multi-core Score 1,434 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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