DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)

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Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Fri, 22 May 2026 06:00:52 GMT Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 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 $14.00 $40.00
RAM (GB) 2 8
CPU Cores 1 4
Storage (TB) 50 160
Storage Type NVMe SSD
Transfer (TB) 2 4

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name DO-Premium-AMD Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,000.00 2,593.90
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,999.99 5,187.80
Events per Second 671.92 1,100.82
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.61 0.88
Average Latency (ms) 1.49 0.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.21 1.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.91 0.97

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second 2,170,455.32 3,685,781.23
Mebibytes per second 2,119.59 3,599.40
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.48 1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second 3,400,226.10 3,590,629.63
Mebibytes per second 3,320.53 3,506.47
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.57 1.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second 1,543.33 4,999.39
Writes per Second 1,028.88 3,332.93
Fsyncs per Second 3,293.71 10,670.47
Read Mebibytes per Second 24.11 78.12
Written Mebibytes per Second 16.08 52.08
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.17 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.57 37.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.63 0.18

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,969.06 369.37
Average Latency (ms) 1,976.17 416.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,988.02 441.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,973.38 442.73

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,350.00 5,144.00
Queries per second 53,500.00 51,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.49 1.72
Average Latency (ms) 1.87 1.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.84 7.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 2.35

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,968.00 5,108.00
Queries per second 29,680.00 51,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.72 1.15
Average Latency (ms) 3.37 1.96
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.91 12.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.09 2.71

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 1,551.00 2,247.00
Queries per second 15,510.00 22,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.76 3.08
Average Latency (ms) 6.44 4.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 35.63 29.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 9.06 5.28

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,709.00 7,630.00
Queries per second 47,090.00 76,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.12 0.71
Average Latency (ms) 2.12 1.31
Maximum Latency (ms) 19.94 29.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.62 1.55

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 1,055,467.00 898,571.00
Queries per second 10,554,670.00 8,985,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 547.25 505.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 122,498.00 149,465.00
Queries per second 1,224,980.00 1,494,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.39 1.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.12 0.09

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,028.00 4,249.00
Queries per second 60,280.00 42,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.5 0.83
Average Latency (ms) 1.66 2.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.1 6.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.43 3.02

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,334.00 2,637.00
Queries per second 63,340.00 26,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.54 0.94
Average Latency (ms) 1.58 3.79
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.64 6.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 5.09

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,124.00 7,166.00
Queries per second 41,240.00 71,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.13 0.7
Average Latency (ms) 2.42 1.39
Maximum Latency (ms) 19.71 28.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.1 1.79

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,611.00 7,661.00
Queries per second 46,110.00 76,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.06 0.7
Average Latency (ms) 2.17 1.3
Maximum Latency (ms) 34.23 33.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.49 1.58

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 28,054.00 69,690.00
Queries per second 280,540.00 696,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.36 0.14
Maximum Latency (ms) 19.49 27.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 0.87

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 33,990.48 54,436.58
PING_MBULK per Second 35,236.08 48,828.12
SET per Second 34,036.76 51,572.98
GET per Second 33,795.20 48,239.27
INCR per Second 34,542.32 52,328.62
LPUSH per Second 35,100.04 45,454.54
RPUSH per Second 34,293.55 49,751.24
LPOP per Second 34,376.07 53,390.28
RPOP per Second 34,989.50 53,648.07
SADD per Second 35,174.11 48,285.85
HSET per Second 35,536.61 51,493.30
SPOP per Second 35,112.36 52,910.05
ZADD per Second 34,494.65 53,504.55
ZPOPMIN per Second 37,023.32 53,590.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 23,952.09 28,645.09
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 12,766.50 13,131.98
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 9,046.50 8,529.51
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,630.09 7,479.99
MSET (10 keys) per Second 32,278.89 49,212.60

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.990.47
PING_MBULK0.950.53
SET0.990.50
GET0.990.54
INCR0.980.49
LPUSH0.970.58
RPUSH0.990.52
LPOP0.990.49
RPOP0.970.48
SADD0.960.54
HSET0.960.53
SPOP0.960.49
ZADD0.980.48
ZPOPMIN0.910.48
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.440.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.761.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.873.00
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.553.43
MSET (10 keys)1.080.77

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

In conclusion, the DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance excels in single-threaded and small-scale tasks, as evidenced by its impressive Redis benchmarks and strong CPU performance, although it lags behind in I/O operations and larger data retrieval tasks. On the other hand, the Vultr Cloud Compute instance, with its more powerful quad-core processor and larger RAM, demonstrates superior performance in multi-threaded, CPU-intensive, and memory-heavy workloads, including Redis operations, file I/O, and MySQL database tasks. Ideal use cases for the DigitalOcean instance include light-duty, single-threaded applications, while the Vultr instance is better suited for more demanding workloads requiring higher multi-threading capacity, memory usage, and I/O throughput.

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