DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
New day, new benchmarks. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Let's get into the numbers.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:11:18 GMT
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:09:02 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
$14.00
$12.00
RAM (GB)
2
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
50
64
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
2
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
3,792.05
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
3,992.49
7,584.10
Events per Second
708.66
1,433.50
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.65
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
1.41
0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.44
3.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.61
0.73
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,392,467.16
6,381,196.95
Mebibytes per second
3,312.96
6,231.64
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.02
0.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
5,222,214.40
7,590,256.83
Mebibytes per second
5,099.82
7,412.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.39
0.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second
1,898.43
4,797.61
Writes per Second
1,265.62
3,198.41
Fsyncs per Second
4,052.28
10,240.61
Read Mebibytes per Second
29.66
74.96
Written Mebibytes per Second
19.78
49.98
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.14
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.66
19.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.49
0.15
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,638.91
1,120.95
Average Latency (ms)
1,646.82
1,127.36
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,653.32
1,132.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,648.20
1,129.24
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,225.00
10,238.00
Queries per second
72,250.00
102,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.16
0.9
Average Latency (ms)
1.38
0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.03
2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.82
1.06
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,858.00
12,564.00
Queries per second
48,580.00
125,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.06
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
2.06
0.79
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.55
8.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.97
0.97
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,569.00
5,279.00
Queries per second
25,690.00
52,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.53
1.64
Average Latency (ms)
3.89
1.89
Maximum Latency (ms)
31.93
4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.57
2.22
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,028.00
22,126.00
Queries per second
70,280.00
221,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.73
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
14.53
2.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.48
0.53
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,346,717.00
1,958,342.00
Queries per second
13,467,170.00
19,583,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
407.94
207.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
163,275.00
216,335.00
Queries per second
1,632,750.00
2,163,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
1
1.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.09
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,941.00
8,316.00
Queries per second
59,410.00
83,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.51
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
1.68
1.2
Maximum Latency (ms)
4
3.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.22
1.55
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,397.00
11,393.00
Queries per second
73,970.00
113,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.39
0.24
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
0.88
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.62
2.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
1.12
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,797.00
20,610.00
Queries per second
77,970.00
206,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.76
0.36
Average Latency (ms)
1.28
0.48
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.43
4.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
0.65
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,389.00
22,150.00
Queries per second
73,890.00
221,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.72
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
0.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.13
9.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.22
0.54
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
53,947.00
162,113.00
Queries per second
539,470.00
1,621,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.18
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.82
4.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.12
0.09
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
69,300.07
50,327.12
PING_MBULK per Second
69,637.88
52,002.08
SET per Second
69,156.30
52,966.10
GET per Second
70,077.09
53,022.27
INCR per Second
64,557.78
53,219.80
LPUSH per Second
66,889.63
52,273.91
RPUSH per Second
68,259.38
52,056.22
LPOP per Second
63,938.62
51,679.59
RPOP per Second
66,844.91
50,890.59
SADD per Second
67,430.88
49,603.17
HSET per Second
70,028.02
51,466.80
SPOP per Second
67,430.88
53,134.96
ZADD per Second
64,184.86
51,948.05
ZPOPMIN per Second
59,737.16
52,742.62
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
38,417.21
36,832.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
18,416.21
22,041.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
12,968.49
15,622.56
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
10,951.70
13,980.15
MSET (10 keys) per Second
59,630.29
50,025.02
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.46
0.61
PING_MBULK
0.45
0.58
SET
0.46
0.59
GET
0.45
0.58
INCR
0.49
0.59
LPUSH
0.48
0.60
RPUSH
0.47
0.60
LPOP
0.51
0.60
RPOP
0.48
0.61
SADD
0.47
0.62
HSET
0.46
0.60
SPOP
0.47
0.58
ZADD
0.50
0.60
ZPOPMIN
0.53
0.59
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.91
0.85
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.80
1.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.63
2.02
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.01
2.37
MSET (10 keys)
0.68
0.66
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance outperforms the Vultr High Frequency Intel instance in the provided benchmarks, particularly in Redis operations where the DigitalOcean instance delivers higher RPS and consistently lower latencies, with an average of 64,724.92 RPS for PING_INLINE compared to Vultr’s 50,327.12 RPS. Additionally, DigitalOcean excels in CPU performance benchmarks, evidenced by higher events per second (644.39 vs. 1433.5) and lower average latencies. This makes the DigitalOcean instance more suitable for CPU-intensive tasks or applications requiring high throughput and low latency, despite Vultr’s competitive monthly pricing.
From the friendly human:
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