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

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Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've got brand new instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:09:47 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:02 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-31-generic 7.0.0-29-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
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 50
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 3

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

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

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD AuthenticAMD
Model Name DO-Premium-AMD AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 1,996.25 2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 512.00
BogoMips 3,992.49 5,800.00
Events per Second 1,098.91 4,236.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.72 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 0.91 0.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.09 2.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 0.26

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 4,162,799.09 7,367,539.15
Mebibytes per second 4,065.23 7,194.86
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.5 0.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 4,248,501.02 7,232,726.42
Mebibytes per second 4,148.93 7,063.21
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.58 0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second 1,259.91 4,910.99
Writes per Second 839.91 3,273.99
Fsyncs per Second 2,696.32 10,478.27
Read Mebibytes per Second 19.69 76.73
Written Mebibytes per Second 13.12 51.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.21 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 48.77 6.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.67 0.12

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,291.63 1,266.97
Average Latency (ms) 2,304.59 1,276.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,317.78 1,287.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,320.55 1,280.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,879.00 13,615.00
Queries per second 48,790.00 136,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.37 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 2.05 0.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 42.95 2.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.76 0.84

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,925.00 12,081.00
Queries per second 29,250.00 120,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.54 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 3.41 0.83
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.27 9.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.18 0.95

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,482.00 5,846.00
Queries per second 14,820.00 58,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.5 1.42
Average Latency (ms) 6.74 1.71
Maximum Latency (ms) 25.47 9.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 10.27 1.93

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,894.00 18,517.00
Queries per second 48,940.00 185,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.88 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 2.04 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.26 7.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.62 0.63

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,026,342.00 2,249,592.00
Queries per second 10,263,420.00 22,495,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 488.41 194.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 126,782.00 360,565.00
Queries per second 1,267,820.00 3,605,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.76 0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,979.00 11,291.00
Queries per second 39,790.00 112,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.87 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 2.51 0.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.34 2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.62 1.14

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,301.00 13,877.00
Queries per second 53,010.00 138,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 1.88 0.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.82 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.66 0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,963.00 18,476.00
Queries per second 39,630.00 184,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.02 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 2.52 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.61 11.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.57 0.64

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,192.00 18,856.00
Queries per second 41,920.00 188,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.07 0.44
Average Latency (ms) 2.38 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 19.27 7.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.18 0.61

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 37,116.00 235,558.00
Queries per second 371,160.00 2,355,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.27 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.61 6.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.7 0.07

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 54,259.36 46,490.00
PING_MBULK per Second 53,106.74 46,253.47
SET per Second 54,495.91 47,258.98
GET per Second 56,980.06 47,103.16
INCR per Second 52,938.06 47,415.84
LPUSH per Second 49,825.61 47,961.63
RPUSH per Second 51,124.75 47,573.74
LPOP per Second 51,072.52 45,766.59
RPOP per Second 50,327.12 47,869.79
SADD per Second 52,083.34 47,528.52
HSET per Second 45,537.34 47,460.84
SPOP per Second 52,826.20 46,360.68
ZADD per Second 48,402.71 47,869.79
ZPOPMIN per Second 52,083.34 47,619.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 28,710.88 37,693.18
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 12,250.40 23,980.81
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 7,739.94 17,208.74
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 6,953.14 16,358.58
MSET (10 keys) per Second 41,101.52 47,236.65

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.590.66
PING_MBULK0.590.65
SET0.590.66
GET0.560.66
INCR0.610.66
LPUSH0.650.66
RPUSH0.630.66
LPOP0.650.69
RPOP0.650.66
SADD0.620.65
HSET0.710.66
SPOP0.600.66
ZADD0.670.66
ZPOPMIN0.610.65
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.210.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.681.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.951.78
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.401.89
MSET (10 keys)0.970.71

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance outperforms the Vultr High Performance AMD instance based on key benchmarks, particularly in Redis operations and MySQL bulk insert performance. DigitalOcean scores higher in Redis requests per second (54,259 vs 46,490) and MySQL bulk insert transactions per second (102,424 vs 223,550), indicating better overall performance for CPU-heavy and memory-intensive workloads. Therefore, this instance is recommended for users prioritizing higher throughput in database operations and cost-effective performance.

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