diff --git a/benchmark/fixtures/require-cachable.js b/benchmark/fixtures/require-cachable.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..f651728dc78f35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/fixtures/require-cachable.js
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const list = require('internal/bootstrap/cache');
+const {
+  isMainThread
+} = require('worker_threads');
+
+for (const key of list.cachableBuiltins) {
+  if (!isMainThread && key === 'trace_events') {
+    continue;
+  }
+  require(key);
+}
diff --git a/benchmark/misc/startup.js b/benchmark/misc/startup.js
index 703146f081b3c6..1350cd291e2b18 100644
--- a/benchmark/misc/startup.js
+++ b/benchmark/misc/startup.js
@@ -1,36 +1,76 @@
 'use strict';
 const common = require('../common.js');
-const spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
+const { spawn } = require('child_process');
 const path = require('path');
-const emptyJsFile = path.resolve(__dirname, '../../test/fixtures/semicolon.js');
 
-const bench = common.createBenchmark(startNode, {
-  dur: [1]
+let Worker;  // Lazy loaded in main
+
+const bench = common.createBenchmark(main, {
+  dur: [1],
+  script: ['benchmark/fixtures/require-cachable', 'test/fixtures/semicolon'],
+  mode: ['process', 'worker']
+}, {
+  flags: ['--expose-internals', '--experimental-worker']  // for workers
 });
 
-function startNode({ dur }) {
-  var go = true;
-  var starts = 0;
+function spawnProcess(script) {
+  const cmd = process.execPath || process.argv[0];
+  const argv = ['--expose-internals', script];
+  return spawn(cmd, argv);
+}
+
+function spawnWorker(script) {
+  return new Worker(script, { stderr: true, stdout: true });
+}
+
+function start(state, script, bench, getNode) {
+  const node = getNode(script);
+  let stdout = '';
+  let stderr = '';
+
+  node.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
+    stdout += data;
+  });
+
+  node.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
+    stderr += data;
+  });
+
+  node.on('exit', (code) => {
+    if (code !== 0) {
+      console.error('------ stdout ------');
+      console.error(stdout);
+      console.error('------ stderr ------');
+      console.error(stderr);
+      throw new Error(`Error during node startup, exit code ${code}`);
+    }
+    state.throughput++;
+
+    if (state.go) {
+      start(state, script, bench, getNode);
+    } else {
+      bench.end(state.throughput);
+    }
+  });
+}
+
+function main({ dur, script, mode }) {
+  const state = {
+    go: true,
+    throughput: 0
+  };
 
   setTimeout(function() {
-    go = false;
+    state.go = false;
   }, dur * 1000);
 
-  bench.start();
-  start();
-
-  function start() {
-    const node = spawn(process.execPath || process.argv[0], [emptyJsFile]);
-    node.on('exit', function(exitCode) {
-      if (exitCode !== 0) {
-        throw new Error('Error during node startup');
-      }
-      starts++;
-
-      if (go)
-        start();
-      else
-        bench.end(starts);
-    });
+  script = path.resolve(__dirname, '../../', `${script}.js`);
+  if (mode === 'worker') {
+    Worker = require('worker_threads').Worker;
+    bench.start();
+    start(state, script, bench, spawnWorker);
+  } else {
+    bench.start();
+    start(state, script, bench, spawnProcess);
   }
 }
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-benchmark-misc.js b/test/parallel/test-benchmark-misc.js
index fc7e340a80d0bb..b88415280833bc 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-benchmark-misc.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-benchmark-misc.js
@@ -11,4 +11,6 @@ runBenchmark('misc', [
   'n=1',
   'type=',
   'val=magyarország.icom.museum',
+  'script=test/fixtures/semicolon',
+  'mode=worker'
 ], { NODEJS_BENCHMARK_ZERO_ALLOWED: 1 });