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

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've got brand new instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:37:21 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:36:36 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-27-generic 7.0.0-27-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 3,792.05
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,992.49 7,584.10
Events per Second 1,270.29 1,466.74
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.66 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 0.79 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.91 3.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.87 0.72

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 4,259,692.62 7,681,495.84
Mebibytes per second 4,159.86 7,501.46
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.04 0.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 4,578,740.48 7,602,534.50
Mebibytes per second 4,471.43 7,424.35
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.32 0.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 1,043.48 4,496.60
Writes per Second 695.66 2,997.70
Fsyncs per Second 2,238.59 9,593.60
Read Mebibytes per Second 16.30 70.26
Written Mebibytes per Second 10.87 46.84
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.25 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.9 2.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.92 0.18

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,955.91 1,184.90
Average Latency (ms) 1,970.75 1,190.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,977.87 1,196.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,973.38 1,191.92

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,004.00 9,469.00
Queries per second 60,040.00 94,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.22 0.89
Average Latency (ms) 1.66 1.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 352.46 5.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.96 2.03

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,993.00 10,900.00
Queries per second 29,930.00 109,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.31 0.63
Average Latency (ms) 3.34 0.92
Maximum Latency (ms) 34.24 8.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.91 1.18

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,677.00 4,779.00
Queries per second 16,770.00 47,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.14 1.69
Average Latency (ms) 5.96 2.09
Maximum Latency (ms) 81.28 7.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 10.84 2.52

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,786.00 19,198.00
Queries per second 67,860.00 191,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.79 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 1.47 0.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 23.78 4.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.57 0.65

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 931,337.00 2,016,592.00
Queries per second 9,313,370.00 20,165,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1149.14 230.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 137,388.00 218,879.00
Queries per second 1,373,880.00 2,188,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.32 2
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 4,725.00 7,852.00
Queries per second 47,250.00 78,520.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.78 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 2.11 1.27
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.8 3.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.02 1.7

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,047.00 11,560.00
Queries per second 60,470.00 115,600.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.29
Average Latency (ms) 1.65 0.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 52.51 3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 1.12

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,905.00 18,734.00
Queries per second 29,050.00 187,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.92 0.38
Average Latency (ms) 3.44 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 66.16 4.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 10.09 0.72

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,682.00 18,579.00
Queries per second 36,820.00 185,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.86 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 2.71 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.7 12.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 7.7 0.69

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 38,236.00 154,977.00
Queries per second 382,360.00 1,549,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.26 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 20.01 4.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.61 0.09

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 56,850.48 54,734.54
PING_MBULK per Second 61,162.08 53,475.94
SET per Second 57,570.52 54,288.82
GET per Second 57,636.89 54,914.88
INCR per Second 59,772.86 55,401.66
LPUSH per Second 57,142.86 53,792.36
RPUSH per Second 56,369.79 54,525.63
LPOP per Second 59,488.40 53,078.56
RPOP per Second 59,488.40 52,631.58
SADD per Second 58,962.27 54,436.58
HSET per Second 44,984.25 53,619.30
SPOP per Second 57,077.62 54,734.54
ZADD per Second 58,548.01 52,659.29
ZPOPMIN per Second 60,240.96 53,561.86
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 30,854.68 36,845.98
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 14,740.57 22,696.32
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,568.59 15,885.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 8,655.01 13,700.51
MSET (10 keys) per Second 49,043.65 50,968.40

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.560.56
PING_MBULK0.510.57
SET0.560.57
GET0.550.56
INCR0.530.56
LPUSH0.560.58
RPUSH0.570.57
LPOP0.540.59
RPOP0.540.59
SADD0.540.57
HSET0.790.58
SPOP0.550.56
ZADD0.550.59
ZPOPMIN0.520.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.110.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.311.44
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.102.04
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.652.35
MSET (10 keys)0.800.64

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance outperforms the Vultr High Frequency Intel instance, especially in Redis benchmark metrics such as LPUSH and LRANGE, showing higher requests per second and lower latency. DigitalOcean's instance achieves an impressive 61,162.08 RPS for LPUSH and 30,854.68 RPS for LRANGE_100, whereas Vultr's instance reaches 53,475.94 RPS for LPUSH and 36,845.98 RPS for LRANGE_100, indicating superior throughput and lower response times for DigitalOcean. For budget-conscious users needing robust CPU performance and I/O efficiency, DigitalOcean's instance is the clear winner.

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