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

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New day, new benchmarks. 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 all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:11:18 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:02 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 50
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 3

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

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

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD AuthenticAMD
Model Name DO-Premium-AMD AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 1,996.25 2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 512.00
BogoMips 3,992.49 5,800.00
Events per Second 708.66 4,236.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.41 0.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.44 2.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.61 0.26

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 3,392,467.16 7,367,539.15
Mebibytes per second 3,312.96 7,194.86
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.02 0.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,222,214.40 7,232,726.42
Mebibytes per second 5,099.82 7,063.21
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.39 0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second 1,898.43 4,910.99
Writes per Second 1,265.62 3,273.99
Fsyncs per Second 4,052.28 10,478.27
Read Mebibytes per Second 29.66 76.73
Written Mebibytes per Second 19.78 51.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.14 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.66 6.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.49 0.12

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,638.91 1,266.97
Average Latency (ms) 1,646.82 1,276.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,653.32 1,287.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,648.20 1,280.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,225.00 13,615.00
Queries per second 72,250.00 136,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.16 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 1.38 0.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.03 2.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.82 0.84

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,858.00 12,081.00
Queries per second 48,580.00 120,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.06 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 2.06 0.83
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.55 9.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.97 0.95

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,569.00 5,846.00
Queries per second 25,690.00 58,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.53 1.42
Average Latency (ms) 3.89 1.71
Maximum Latency (ms) 31.93 9.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.57 1.93

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,028.00 18,517.00
Queries per second 70,280.00 185,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.73 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 1.42 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 14.53 7.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.48 0.63

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,346,717.00 2,249,592.00
Queries per second 13,467,170.00 22,495,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 407.94 194.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 163,275.00 360,565.00
Queries per second 1,632,750.00 3,605,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 1 0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,941.00 11,291.00
Queries per second 59,410.00 112,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.51 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.68 0.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 4 2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 1.14

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,397.00 13,877.00
Queries per second 73,970.00 138,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 0.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.62 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.79 0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,797.00 18,476.00
Queries per second 77,970.00 184,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.76 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 1.28 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.43 11.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 0.64

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,389.00 18,856.00
Queries per second 73,890.00 188,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.72 0.44
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.13 7.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 0.61

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 53,947.00 235,558.00
Queries per second 539,470.00 2,355,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.18 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.82 6.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 0.07

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 69,300.07 46,490.00
PING_MBULK per Second 69,637.88 46,253.47
SET per Second 69,156.30 47,258.98
GET per Second 70,077.09 47,103.16
INCR per Second 64,557.78 47,415.84
LPUSH per Second 66,889.63 47,961.63
RPUSH per Second 68,259.38 47,573.74
LPOP per Second 63,938.62 45,766.59
RPOP per Second 66,844.91 47,869.79
SADD per Second 67,430.88 47,528.52
HSET per Second 70,028.02 47,460.84
SPOP per Second 67,430.88 46,360.68
ZADD per Second 64,184.86 47,869.79
ZPOPMIN per Second 59,737.16 47,619.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 38,417.21 37,693.18
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 18,416.21 23,980.81
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 12,968.49 17,208.74
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 10,951.70 16,358.58
MSET (10 keys) per Second 59,630.29 47,236.65

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.460.66
PING_MBULK0.450.65
SET0.460.66
GET0.450.66
INCR0.490.66
LPUSH0.480.66
RPUSH0.470.66
LPOP0.510.69
RPOP0.480.66
SADD0.470.65
HSET0.460.66
SPOP0.470.66
ZADD0.500.66
ZPOPMIN0.530.65
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.910.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.801.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.631.78
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.011.89
MSET (10 keys)0.680.71

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance outperforms the Vultr High Performance AMD in both Redis operations and CPU benchmarks. With significantly higher rates of Redis operations per second and lower latency, the DigitalOcean instance benchmarks at 64,725 RPS for PING_INLINE compared to Vultr's 46,490 RPS, and has an average CPU latency of 1.55 ms against Vultr's 0.24 ms. For use cases requiring robust Redis performance and lower CPU latency, the DigitalOcean instance is the clear winner.

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