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

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. 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 (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:38:52 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:35:06 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 $14.00 $6.00
RAM (GB) 2 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 50 32
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 1

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

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

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name DO-Premium-AMD Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz) 1,996.25 3,791.97
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,992.49 7,583.94
Events per Second 730.16 1,438.92
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.64 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 1.37 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.59 4.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.52 0.75

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,123,620.54 7,522,138.15
Mebibytes per second 3,050.41 7,345.84
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.07 0.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,224,478.37 7,678,825.83
Mebibytes per second 5,102.03 7,498.85
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.4 0.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second 2,012.74 4,258.17
Writes per Second 1,341.83 2,838.78
Fsyncs per Second 4,295.05 9,093.60
Read Mebibytes per Second 31.45 66.53
Written Mebibytes per Second 20.97 44.36
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.13 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.81 9.54
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.5 0.19

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,660.48 1,111.88
Average Latency (ms) 1,679.64 1,119.47
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,687.90 1,123.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,678.14 1,129.24

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,656.00 10,279.00
Queries per second 76,560.00 102,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.17 0.9
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 0.97
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.99 11.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.58 1.06

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,129.00 10,923.00
Queries per second 41,290.00 109,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.14 0.66
Average Latency (ms) 2.42 0.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 19.52 14.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.75 1.18

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,409.00 4,879.00
Queries per second 24,090.00 48,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.42 1.72
Average Latency (ms) 4.15 2.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 75.42 8.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.55 2.35

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,034.00 18,630.00
Queries per second 60,340.00 186,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.73 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 1.66 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.71 14.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.02 0.69

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,346,717.00 1,900,092.00
Queries per second 13,467,170.00 19,000,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 407.38 218.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 164,009.00 216,614.00
Queries per second 1,640,090.00 2,166,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.58 4.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,968.00 8,497.00
Queries per second 59,680.00 84,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.61 0.29
Average Latency (ms) 1.67 1.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.83 3.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 1.5

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,381.00 11,456.00
Queries per second 73,810.00 114,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.52 0.3
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 0.87
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.7 3.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.79 1.12

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,407.00 18,358.00
Queries per second 64,070.00 183,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.77 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 1.56 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.26 7.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.66 0.72

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,751.00 18,692.00
Queries per second 67,510.00 186,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.74 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 1.48 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.32 9.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.48 0.69

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 62,091.00 158,377.00
Queries per second 620,910.00 1,583,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.16 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.3 4.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.08 0.09

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 71,225.07 54,259.36
PING_MBULK per Second 71,225.07 53,504.55
SET per Second 68,119.89 54,854.64
GET per Second 66,401.06 54,288.82
INCR per Second 70,077.09 54,704.60
LPUSH per Second 70,422.54 53,050.40
RPUSH per Second 68,965.52 53,908.36
LPOP per Second 68,259.38 53,333.33
RPOP per Second 66,445.18 52,521.01
SADD per Second 69,492.70 52,994.17
HSET per Second 66,445.18 52,410.90
SPOP per Second 69,930.07 50,761.42
ZADD per Second 71,428.57 47,528.52
ZPOPMIN per Second 71,174.38 50,075.11
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 38,819.88 32,992.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 18,768.77 21,404.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 12,822.16 15,762.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 10,741.14 13,661.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second 61,387.36 51,519.84

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.450.56
PING_MBULK0.440.56
SET0.470.56
GET0.480.57
INCR0.450.56
LPUSH0.460.58
RPUSH0.460.57
LPOP0.470.58
RPOP0.490.59
SADD0.460.58
HSET0.490.59
SPOP0.450.60
ZADD0.450.65
ZPOPMIN0.440.61
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.910.96
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.811.52
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.722.06
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.132.40
MSET (10 keys)0.650.64

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 GB) instance outperforms the Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) instance overall, especially in CPU-intensive tasks and Redis benchmarks. The DigitalOcean instance achieves higher Redis requests per second (rps) and lower latencies across various operations compared to Vultr's, which is evident in benchmarks like SET (68119.89 rps vs 54854.64 rps) and GET (66401.06 rps vs 54288.82 rps). For those needing robust CPU performance and low latency for database operations, the DigitalOcean instance is the better choice.

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