I've run some CPU benchmarks, and the $80 droplet is roughly equivalent to the $40 linode. But if you get lucky and no one else on the same host is using much C

I've run some CPU benchmarks, and the $80 droplet is roughly equivalent to the $40 linode. But if you get lucky and no one else on the same host is using much CPU, the linode will be over 50% faster. Of course, most customers aren't running CPU-bound tasks.