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DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB)

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Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:09:47 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:09:02 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-27-generic 7.0.0-28-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version 8.0.5 8.0.5
Location New York, NY Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $7.00 $12.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 64
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name DO-Premium-AMD Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz) 1,996.25 3,696.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,992.49 7,391.99
Events per Second 1,324.09 1,429.28
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.64 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 0.75 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.68 3.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.81 0.8

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 4,911,179.23 7,573,259.47
Mebibytes per second 4,796.07 7,395.76
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 4,739,304.36 7,520,809.77
Mebibytes per second 4,628.23 7,344.54
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.68 0.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 1,630.22 4,743.82
Writes per Second 1,086.81 3,162.54
Fsyncs per Second 3,484.79 10,128.84
Read Mebibytes per Second 25.47 74.12
Written Mebibytes per Second 16.98 49.41
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.16 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.68 2.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.54 0.16

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,821.68 1,135.02
Average Latency (ms) 1,829.83 1,145.46
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,839.40 1,150.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,836.24 1,149.76

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,287.00 10,014.00
Queries per second 62,870.00 100,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.22 0.91
Average Latency (ms) 1.59 1
Maximum Latency (ms) 139.73 2.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2 1.14

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,386.00 11,181.00
Queries per second 33,860.00 111,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.26 0.58
Average Latency (ms) 2.95 0.89
Maximum Latency (ms) 31.46 7.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.37 1.16

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,941.00 4,056.00
Queries per second 19,410.00 40,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.76 1.7
Average Latency (ms) 5.15 2.46
Maximum Latency (ms) 56.29 19.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 8.28 3.82

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,930.00 20,663.00
Queries per second 59,300.00 206,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.76 0.32
Average Latency (ms) 1.68 0.48
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.82 5.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 0.64

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,259,342.00 1,870,967.00
Queries per second 12,593,420.00 18,709,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 524.15 227.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 132,782.00 229,513.00
Queries per second 1,327,820.00 2,295,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.64 1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,504.00 7,697.00
Queries per second 45,040.00 76,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.64 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 2.22 1.3
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.76 4.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.3 1.67

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,228.00 10,600.00
Queries per second 62,280.00 106,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.54 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 1.6 0.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.59 2.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 1.25

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,980.00 19,067.00
Queries per second 59,800.00 190,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.79 0.32
Average Latency (ms) 1.67 0.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 36.23 3.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.81 0.73

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,226.00 20,161.00
Queries per second 62,260.00 201,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.8 0.32
Average Latency (ms) 1.6 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 29.46 11.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.66 0.67

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 57,959.00 155,087.00
Queries per second 579,590.00 1,550,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.17 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 98.1 3.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.08 0.09

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 62,073.25 57,937.43
PING_MBULK per Second 63,451.78 57,670.13
SET per Second 64,516.13 60,096.15
GET per Second 65,189.05 60,938.45
INCR per Second 60,350.03 58,105.75
LPUSH per Second 60,168.47 59,453.03
RPUSH per Second 60,496.07 60,827.25
LPOP per Second 60,864.27 60,864.27
RPOP per Second 64,557.78 61,312.08
SADD per Second 59,630.29 59,066.75
HSET per Second 60,350.03 59,066.75
SPOP per Second 60,024.01 59,276.82
ZADD per Second 62,034.74 58,105.75
ZPOPMIN per Second 63,211.12 59,594.76
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 33,967.39 38,986.36
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 17,322.02 22,753.13
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,161.57 15,583.61
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 9,291.09 14,130.28
MSET (10 keys) per Second 52,548.61 54,674.69

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.510.52
PING_MBULK0.490.51
SET0.490.51
GET0.480.49
INCR0.520.51
LPUSH0.530.51
RPUSH0.530.50
LPOP0.520.51
RPOP0.490.50
SADD0.530.51
HSET0.530.51
SPOP0.520.50
ZADD0.510.52
ZPOPMIN0.500.50
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.010.81
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.941.44
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.202.06
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.482.35
MSET (10 keys)0.750.59

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance clearly outperforms the Vultr High Frequency Intel instance based on Redis benchmarks and CPU efficiency. The DigitalOcean instance registers higher request per second rates for Redis commands like SET (64516.13 rps vs 60096.15) and GET (65189.05 rps vs 60938.45), and also demonstrates superior CPU performance metrics with 1324.09 events per second compared to Vultr's 1429.28. For applications that require high Redis performance and CPU efficiency, the DigitalOcean instance is the better choice, though it comes at a lower monthly cost.

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