DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Let's get into the numbers.
Overview
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Last Benchmarked | Fri, 29 May 2026 22:00:52 GMT | Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT |
| Linux Distro | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 |
| Kernel Version | 6.8.0-71-generic | 6.8.0-117-generic |
| MySQL Version | 8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 | 8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 |
| Redis Version | 7.0.15 | 7.0.15 |
| Location | New York, NY | Newark, NJ |
| Monthly Price | $7.00 | $18.00 |
| RAM (GB) | 1 | 2 |
| CPU Cores | 1 | 2 |
| Storage (TB) | 25 | 60 |
| Storage Type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Transfer (TB) | 1 | 4 |
CPU
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | AuthenticAMD | AuthenticAMD |
| Model Name | DO-Premium-AMD | AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor |
| Clock Speed (MHz) | 1,996.25 | 2,899.99 |
| CPU Cache Size (KB) | 512.00 | 1,024.00 |
| BogoMips | 3,992.50 | 5,799.98 |
| Events per Second | 638.96 | 4,648.14 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.68 | 0.2 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.56 | 0.21 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 4.41 | 1.26 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 3.19 | 0.23 |
Memory
Memory Read
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 3,059,616.14 | 7,548,502.85 |
| Mebibytes per second | 2,987.91 | 7,371.58 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 3.59 | 0.08 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
Memory Write
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 4,072,688.19 | 7,544,807.09 |
| Mebibytes per second | 3,977.23 | 7,367.98 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 0.97 | 0.12 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
File I/O
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads per Second | 1,282.36 | 5,114.79 |
| Writes per Second | 854.91 | 3,409.86 |
| Fsyncs per Second | 2,745.00 | 10,914.44 |
| Read Mebibytes per Second | 20.04 | 79.92 |
| Written Mebibytes per Second | 13.36 | 53.28 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.2 | 0.05 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 22.46 | 3.7 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.69 | 0.12 |
Mutex
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 2,087.88 | 574.03 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2,100.38 | 637.47 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 2,109.65 | 663.74 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2,120.76 | 657.93 |
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 4,991.00 | 9,622.00 |
| Queries per second | 49,910.00 | 96,220.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.61 | 0.73 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2 | 1.04 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 8.54 | 2.22 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.52 | 1.12 |
MySQL Write-only
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 2,389.00 | 9,585.00 |
| Queries per second | 23,890.00 | 95,850.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 2.02 | 0.8 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 4.18 | 1.04 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 54.5 | 2.18 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 6.32 | 1.32 |
MySQL Read/Write
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 1,394.00 | 4,686.00 |
| Queries per second | 13,940.00 | 46,860.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 4.17 | 1.57 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 7.17 | 2.13 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 35.33 | 4.26 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 10.65 | 2.52 |
MySQL INSERT
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 4,238.00 | 15,965.00 |
| Queries per second | 42,380.00 | 159,650.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.29 | 0.45 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2.36 | 0.62 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 17.91 | 2.23 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 3.75 | 0.74 |
MySQL Bulk INSERT
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 996,869.00 | 3,065,092.00 |
| Queries per second | 9,968,690.00 | 30,650,920.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.01 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 514.95 | 208.51 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
MySQL SELECT
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 107,540.00 | 217,035.00 |
| Queries per second | 1,075,400.00 | 2,170,350.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.07 | 0.02 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.09 | 0.05 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 1.98 | 0.61 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.13 | 0.06 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 4,956.00 | 14,818.00 |
| Queries per second | 49,560.00 | 148,180.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.77 | 0.24 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2.01 | 0.67 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 11.94 | 1.94 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.91 | 0.86 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 5,684.00 | 14,341.00 |
| Queries per second | 56,840.00 | 143,410.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.71 | 0.27 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.76 | 0.7 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 5.25 | 1.67 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.52 | 0.89 |
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 3,756.00 | 14,864.00 |
| Queries per second | 37,560.00 | 148,640.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.05 | 0.47 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2.66 | 0.67 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 12.67 | 2.36 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 4.65 | 0.87 |
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 4,268.00 | 15,284.00 |
| Queries per second | 42,680.00 | 152,840.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.14 | 0.46 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2.34 | 0.65 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 14.35 | 1.65 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 3.89 | 0.83 |
MySQL DELETE
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 24,723.00 | 151,536.00 |
| Queries per second | 247,230.00 | 1,515,360.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.07 | 0.02 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.4 | 0.07 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 18.86 | 4.83 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.39 | 0.08 |
Redis
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE per Second | 30,969.34 | 55,991.04 |
| PING_MBULK per Second | 31,210.99 | 57,903.88 |
| SET per Second | 30,084.24 | 57,703.40 |
| GET per Second | 31,735.96 | 57,703.40 |
| INCR per Second | 30,978.94 | 57,372.34 |
| LPUSH per Second | 31,289.11 | 57,836.90 |
| RPUSH per Second | 32,393.91 | 58,173.36 |
| LPOP per Second | 30,534.35 | 58,343.06 |
| RPOP per Second | 29,967.04 | 58,343.06 |
| SADD per Second | 29,931.16 | 58,241.12 |
| HSET per Second | 28,968.71 | 58,858.15 |
| SPOP per Second | 31,338.14 | 58,892.82 |
| ZADD per Second | 30,156.82 | 57,504.31 |
| ZPOPMIN per Second | 30,931.02 | 57,870.37 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second | 20,580.37 | 49,236.83 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second | 11,224.60 | 34,818.94 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second | 8,046.99 | 26,766.60 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second | 6,869.08 | 24,207.21 |
| MSET (10 keys) per Second | 27,586.21 | 58,548.01 |
Redis Average Latency (ms)
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE | 1.07 | 0.48 |
| PING_MBULK | 1.06 | 0.44 |
| SET | 1.11 | 0.45 |
| GET | 1.05 | 0.45 |
| INCR | 1.08 | 0.45 |
| LPUSH | 1.08 | 0.44 |
| RPUSH | 1.04 | 0.44 |
| LPOP | 1.10 | 0.44 |
| RPOP | 1.12 | 0.44 |
| SADD | 1.11 | 0.44 |
| HSET | 1.16 | 0.44 |
| SPOP | 1.06 | 0.44 |
| ZADD | 1.11 | 0.45 |
| ZPOPMIN | 1.07 | 0.44 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) | 1.68 | 0.53 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) | 3.12 | 0.74 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) | 4.31 | 0.95 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) | 5.00 | 1.05 |
| MSET (10 keys) | 1.27 | 0.44 |
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
After analyzing the benchmark performance of the DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) instance and the Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance, it is evident that Vultr's offering provides significantly better performance across the board for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads. The Vultr instance excels in handling Redis commands with higher RPS rates and lower latencies, indicating superior performance in memory-based operations. Additionally, the Vultr instance shows better results in CPU benchmarks, file I/O operations, and MySQL operations, driven by its dual-core processor, more RAM, and higher throughput. The DigitalOcean instance, while competent, lags behind in multi-core CPU processing and memory operations. Ideal use cases for the DigitalOcean instance might include applications requiring modest CPU and memory performance, whereas the Vultr instance would be ideal for high-performance computing tasks, demanding high throughput, and applications that require rapid database querying and high I/O operations.
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