DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. 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 (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:38:52 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:36:36 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
$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
730.16
1,466.74
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.64
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
1.37
0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.59
3.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.52
0.72
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,123,620.54
7,681,495.84
Mebibytes per second
3,050.41
7,501.46
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.07
0.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
5,224,478.37
7,602,534.50
Mebibytes per second
5,102.03
7,424.35
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.4
0.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second
2,012.74
4,496.60
Writes per Second
1,341.83
2,997.70
Fsyncs per Second
4,295.05
9,593.60
Read Mebibytes per Second
31.45
70.26
Written Mebibytes per Second
20.97
46.84
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.13
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
16.81
2.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.5
0.18
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,660.48
1,184.90
Average Latency (ms)
1,679.64
1,190.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,687.90
1,196.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,678.14
1,191.92
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,656.00
9,469.00
Queries per second
76,560.00
94,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.17
0.89
Average Latency (ms)
1.3
1.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.99
5.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.58
2.03
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,129.00
10,900.00
Queries per second
41,290.00
109,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.14
0.63
Average Latency (ms)
2.42
0.92
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.52
8.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.75
1.18
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,409.00
4,779.00
Queries per second
24,090.00
47,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.42
1.69
Average Latency (ms)
4.15
2.09
Maximum Latency (ms)
75.42
7.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.55
2.52
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,034.00
19,198.00
Queries per second
60,340.00
191,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.73
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.66
0.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.71
4.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
0.65
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,346,717.00
2,016,592.00
Queries per second
13,467,170.00
20,165,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
407.38
230.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
164,009.00
218,879.00
Queries per second
1,640,090.00
2,188,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.58
2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.09
0.05
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,968.00
7,852.00
Queries per second
59,680.00
78,520.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.61
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
1.67
1.27
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.83
3.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.22
1.7
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,381.00
11,560.00
Queries per second
73,810.00
115,600.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.52
0.29
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.7
3.31
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
6,407.00
18,734.00
Queries per second
64,070.00
187,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.77
0.38
Average Latency (ms)
1.56
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.26
4.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
0.72
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,751.00
18,579.00
Queries per second
67,510.00
185,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.74
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.48
0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.32
12.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.48
0.69
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
62,091.00
154,977.00
Queries per second
620,910.00
1,549,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.16
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.3
4.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.08
0.09
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
71,225.07
54,734.54
PING_MBULK per Second
71,225.07
53,475.94
SET per Second
68,119.89
54,288.82
GET per Second
66,401.06
54,914.88
INCR per Second
70,077.09
55,401.66
LPUSH per Second
70,422.54
53,792.36
RPUSH per Second
68,965.52
54,525.63
LPOP per Second
68,259.38
53,078.56
RPOP per Second
66,445.18
52,631.58
SADD per Second
69,492.70
54,436.58
HSET per Second
66,445.18
53,619.30
SPOP per Second
69,930.07
54,734.54
ZADD per Second
71,428.57
52,659.29
ZPOPMIN per Second
71,174.38
53,561.86
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
38,819.88
36,845.98
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
18,768.77
22,696.32
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
12,822.16
15,885.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
10,741.14
13,700.51
MSET (10 keys) per Second
61,387.36
50,968.40
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.45
0.56
PING_MBULK
0.44
0.57
SET
0.47
0.57
GET
0.48
0.56
INCR
0.45
0.56
LPUSH
0.46
0.58
RPUSH
0.46
0.57
LPOP
0.47
0.59
RPOP
0.49
0.59
SADD
0.46
0.57
HSET
0.49
0.58
SPOP
0.45
0.56
ZADD
0.45
0.59
ZPOPMIN
0.44
0.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.91
0.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.81
1.44
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.72
2.04
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.13
2.35
MSET (10 keys)
0.65
0.64
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
DigitalOcean's Premium AMD instance outperforms Vultr's High Frequency Intel in overall benchmark metrics, particularly in Redis operations like LPUSH and LRANGE, where DigitalOcean achieves higher requests per second and lower latency. DigitalOcean also excels in CPU benchmark tests, showing higher events per second and better thread fairness compared to Vultr. For users needing strong CPU performance and low latency for database operations, the DigitalOcean instance is the preferred choice.
From the friendly human:
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