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Linode Dedicated 4GB

Fremont, CA

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 7, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,015
Faster than 23% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,290
Faster than 15% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
65,457
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$36.00
36 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Dedicated 4GB
  • Location
    Fremont, CA
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 7, 2026, 14:44:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,015 1,290 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
1,109
34th of 53
1,245
44th of 51
Navigation
1,004
50th of 53
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
960
42nd of 53
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,140
37th of 53
Single-core only
Photo Library
964
35th of 53
1,328
43rd of 51
Clang
952
45th of 53
1,280
50th of 51
Text Processing
870
48th of 53
1,163
46th of 51
Asset Compression
1,090
38th of 53
1,399
44th of 51
HDR
763
50th of 53
994
50th of 51
Photo Editor
1,111
37th of 53
1,593
41st of 51
Ray Tracer
944
45th of 53
1,406
46th of 51
Structure from Motion
1,235
34th of 53
Single-core only
Game Physics
971
44th of 53
Single-core only
Video Encoder
961
41st of 53
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,202
35th of 53
Single-core only
Video Player
1,079
36th of 53
Single-core only

Rank among the 53 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 25.1 GB/s 3 3.49%
Scale higher is better 15.7 GB/s 3 6.04%
Add higher is better 16.8 GB/s 3 1.91%
Triad higher is better 17.7 GB/s 3 1.93%

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 235/s 3 0.851%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 15,265/s 3 0.648%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.04 GB/s 3 0.419%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.57 GB/s 3 0.0201%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.09 GB/s 3 11.2%

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 8.25 ms 3 0.224%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 241/s 3 0.415%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 14.5 ms 3 0.338%
Requests per second, average higher is better 239/s 3 0.195%

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

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 127.7 MB/s (32,685 IOPS) 128 MB/s (32,772 IOPS) 255.7 MB/s (65,457 IOPS)
64K 1.29 GB/s (21,194 IOPS) 1.3 GB/s (21,306 IOPS) 2.59 GB/s (42,500 IOPS)
512K 2.06 GB/s (4,217 IOPS) 2.17 GB/s (4,441 IOPS) 4.23 GB/s (8,658 IOPS)
1M 2.22 GB/s (2,270 IOPS) 2.36 GB/s (2,421 IOPS) 4.58 GB/s (4,691 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 1.26 Gbps 1.44 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 1.22 Gbps 1.63 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.06 Gbps 1.25 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 4.35 Gbps 8.14 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 2.19 Gbps 3.65 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 9,978 0.1 ms
fdatasync 6,451 0.155 ms
fsync 4,342 0.23 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 4,518 0.221 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 4,793 0.209 ms
fdatasync 6,141 0.163 ms
fsync 4,037 0.248 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,189 0.457 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 4,197 0.238 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,558 0.642 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,163 0.86 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 352 2.84 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 187 5.36 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 3,973 0.252 ms
write, close, fsync 3,877 0.258 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 1,058,528 0.001 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 1,418 0.658 ms 0.925 ms 1.48 ms 3.25 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,627 2.02 ms 3.61 ms 5.16 ms 9.53 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,227 7.86 ms 23.3 ms 36.8 ms 66.2 ms 0
Read only 1 14,646 0.06 ms 0.095 ms 0.249 ms 0.321 ms 0
Read only 8 34,004 0.211 ms 0.383 ms 0.562 ms 1.1 ms 0
Read only 32 34,741 0.806 ms 1.45 ms 2.08 ms 3.59 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.47 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 1,203 0.726 ms 1.27 ms 2.05 ms 4.91 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,282 2.29 ms 3.88 ms 5.8 ms 10.9 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,556 8.49 ms 14.1 ms 18.3 ms 26.8 ms 0
Read only 1 11,106 0.075 ms 0.128 ms 0.368 ms 0.818 ms 0
Read only 8 27,179 0.266 ms 0.489 ms 0.812 ms 1.77 ms 0
Read only 32 25,558 1.14 ms 2.09 ms 2.89 ms 4.82 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 15.4 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 1 278 5,556 3.36 ms 5.09 ms 7.99 ms 0
Read/write 8 593 11,865 14 ms 20.4 ms 25.3 ms 0
Read/write 32 594 11,877 53.9 ms 86 ms 107 ms 0
Read only 1 588 9,406 1.64 ms 2.15 ms 2.57 ms 0
Read only 8 1,100 17,607 7.17 ms 9.73 ms 11.4 ms 0
Read only 32 1,035 16,566 30.3 ms 38.9 ms 48.3 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 59,877 54,433 0.599 ms 3.26 ms 4.93 ms
1:1 set:get 59,339 29,669 0.599 ms 3.34 ms 5.02 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 1.25 1.29 s 1.44 s 1.48 s 0%
Shop page 1.25 1.73 s 1.95 s 2.02 s 0%
Category page 1.25 1.08 s 1.73 s 1.77 s 0%
Product page 1.25 1.14 s 1.32 s 1.41 s 0%
Product search 1.25 995 ms 1.17 s 1.2 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.36 4.56 s 5.48 s 5.66 s 0%
Shop page 1.36 6.22 s 7.06 s 7.85 s 0%
Category page 1.36 5.35 s 6.43 s 6.98 s 0%
Product page 1.22 4.41 s 4.87 s 5.02 s 0%
Product search 0.904 4.06 s 4.46 s 4.54 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.34 1.37 s 1.55 s 1.62 s 0%
Cart 2.34 1.1 s 1.24 s 1.28 s 0%
Checkout 2.34 820 ms 968 ms 1 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.45 4.43 s 5.51 s 5.85 s 0%
Cart 2.45 4.72 s 5.34 s 5.45 s 0%
Checkout 2.45 3.63 s 4.21 s 4.5 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 64 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 7642 48-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2300 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
Fremont, CA
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 7, 2026, 14:47:22 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 7, 2026, 14:44:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 7, 2026, 14:45:35 UTC
Completed
Oct 7, 2026, 16:09:09 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 7, 2026, 16:09:09 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.077
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