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

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Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Sun, 31 May 2026 03:00:52 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 $21.00 $18.00
RAM (GB) 2 2
CPU Cores 2 2
Storage (TB) 60 60
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 3 4

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) 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 1,599.39 4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.59 0.2
Average Latency (ms) 0.62 0.21
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.82 1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.67 0.23

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 5,207,157.62 7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second 5,085.11 7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.2 0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 5,245,096.07 7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second 5,122.16 7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.13 0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 1,715.61 5,114.79
Writes per Second 1,143.67 3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second 3,669.98 10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second 26.81 79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second 17.87 53.28
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.15 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.22 3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.54 0.12

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 556.73 574.03
Average Latency (ms) 825.56 637.47
Maximum Latency (ms) 865.15 663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 861.95 657.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,259.00 9,622.00
Queries per second 62,590.00 96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.31 0.73
Average Latency (ms) 1.6 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.28 2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.96 1.12

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 3,970.00 9,585.00
Queries per second 39,700.00 95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.36 0.8
Average Latency (ms) 2.52 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.04 2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.55 1.32

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,013.00 4,686.00
Queries per second 20,130.00 46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.03 1.57
Average Latency (ms) 4.96 2.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.99 4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.91 2.52

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,675.00 15,965.00
Queries per second 56,750.00 159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.96 0.45
Average Latency (ms) 1.76 0.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.44 2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.91 0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 1,463,217.00 3,065,092.00
Queries per second 14,632,170.00 30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 443.24 208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 125,762.00 217,035.00
Queries per second 1,257,620.00 2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.37 0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,556.00 14,818.00
Queries per second 75,560.00 148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.51 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 1.32 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.33 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.79 0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,802.00 14,341.00
Queries per second 68,020.00 143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.57 0.27
Average Latency (ms) 1.47 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.15 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.96 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,367.00 14,864.00
Queries per second 53,670.00 148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.96 0.47
Average Latency (ms) 1.86 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.89 2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.71 0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,465.00 15,284.00
Queries per second 54,650.00 152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.97 0.46
Average Latency (ms) 1.83 0.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.94 1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.76 0.83

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 59,025.00 151,536.00
Queries per second 590,250.00 1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.17 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.29 4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.3 0.08

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 52,631.58 55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second 54,436.58 57,903.88
SET per Second 54,112.55 57,703.40
GET per Second 55,370.98 57,703.40
INCR per Second 54,141.85 57,372.34
LPUSH per Second 53,908.36 57,836.90
RPUSH per Second 53,792.36 58,173.36
LPOP per Second 52,938.06 58,343.06
RPOP per Second 54,141.85 58,343.06
SADD per Second 53,248.14 58,241.12
HSET per Second 53,908.36 58,858.15
SPOP per Second 52,521.01 58,892.82
ZADD per Second 53,850.30 57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second 54,259.36 57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 39,093.04 49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 24,962.56 34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 18,402.65 26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 15,748.03 24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second 68,212.83 58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.510.48
PING_MBULK0.480.44
SET0.480.45
GET0.470.45
INCR0.480.45
LPUSH0.480.44
RPUSH0.480.44
LPOP0.490.44
RPOP0.480.44
SADD0.490.44
HSET0.480.44
SPOP0.490.44
ZADD0.480.45
ZPOPMIN0.480.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.680.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.080.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.450.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.821.05
MSET (10 keys)0.390.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Based on the provided benchmarks, the Vultr High Performance AMD instance demonstrates slightly better performance in most metrics compared to the DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance. The Vultr instance shows higher request per second (rps) rates for Redis operations, lower latencies for most Redis commands, and more robust CPU performance with higher events per second and lower average latencies. File I/O performance is also superior on the Vultr instance with higher throughput rates and lower latencies. Memory operations exhibit similar performance with negligible latencies and high throughput. Therefore, the Vultr instance is more suited for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads, whereas the DigitalOcean instance might be more appropriate for scenarios where slightly lower pricing is a deciding factor despite slightly lower performance.

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