DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB)
My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 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 – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:11:17 GMT
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:47 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-27-generic
7.0.0-28-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
25
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
2
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
2,992.91
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
3,992.50
5,985.82
Events per Second
726.05
1,085.49
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.64
0.87
Average Latency (ms)
1.37
0.92
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.5
1.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.57
1.04
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,124,321.03
5,287,233.83
Mebibytes per second
3,051.09
5,163.31
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.2
0.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,198,576.87
5,446,064.29
Mebibytes per second
5,076.74
5,318.42
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.33
0.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second
1,786.48
3,945.14
Writes per Second
1,190.99
2,630.10
Fsyncs per Second
3,820.35
8,418.81
Read Mebibytes per Second
27.91
61.64
Written Mebibytes per Second
18.61
41.10
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.15
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.23
2.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.54
0.2
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,705.40
1,674.69
Average Latency (ms)
1,717.24
1,689.62
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,725.62
1,697.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,739.68
1,708.63
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,218.00
9,332.00
Queries per second
72,180.00
93,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.2
0.93
Average Latency (ms)
1.38
1.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.84
15.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.67
1.32
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,665.00
11,031.00
Queries per second
46,650.00
110,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.12
0.69
Average Latency (ms)
2.14
0.9
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.52
11.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.43
1.23
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,351.00
4,749.00
Queries per second
23,510.00
47,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.54
1.79
Average Latency (ms)
4.25
2.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
29.54
7.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.21
2.57
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,702.00
18,923.00
Queries per second
77,020.00
189,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.73
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
1.3
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
39.5
10.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.22
0.68
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,317,592.00
1,375,842.00
Queries per second
13,175,920.00
13,758,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
403.62
345.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
161,910.00
263,886.00
Queries per second
1,619,100.00
2,638,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.19
2.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.09
0.05
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,673.00
6,167.00
Queries per second
56,730.00
61,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.55
0.53
Average Latency (ms)
1.76
1.62
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.81
6.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.48
2.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,133.00
8,650.00
Queries per second
71,330.00
86,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.45
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
1.4
1.15
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.08
3.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.89
1.52
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,358.00
18,825.00
Queries per second
73,580.00
188,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.76
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
1.36
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
32.59
5.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.22
0.69
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,941.00
19,241.00
Queries per second
79,410.00
192,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.73
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
1.26
0.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.84
4.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2
0.65
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
67,880.00
200,203.00
Queries per second
678,800.00
2,002,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.15
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.82
3.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.94
0.08
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
68,306.01
70,472.16
PING_MBULK per Second
67,294.75
75,187.97
SET per Second
66,979.23
73,909.83
GET per Second
68,352.70
69,156.30
INCR per Second
66,225.16
59,952.04
LPUSH per Second
67,024.13
52,576.24
RPUSH per Second
68,728.52
68,634.18
LPOP per Second
67,340.07
59,171.59
RPOP per Second
67,521.95
53,219.80
SADD per Second
69,589.42
67,430.88
HSET per Second
67,430.88
63,734.86
SPOP per Second
69,252.08
43,859.65
ZADD per Second
69,252.08
43,365.13
ZPOPMIN per Second
68,212.83
49,285.36
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
36,023.05
36,982.25
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
18,308.31
19,992.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
12,436.26
12,827.09
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
10,716.96
10,901.56
MSET (10 keys) per Second
55,679.29
64,350.06
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.46
0.45
PING_MBULK
0.46
0.42
SET
0.48
0.44
GET
0.46
0.46
INCR
0.48
0.53
LPUSH
0.47
0.61
RPUSH
0.46
0.47
LPOP
0.48
0.55
RPOP
0.47
0.62
SADD
0.45
0.47
HSET
0.47
0.51
SPOP
0.45
0.72
ZADD
0.46
0.75
ZPOPMIN
0.46
0.64
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.96
0.90
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.83
1.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.78
2.58
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.09
2.88
MSET (10 keys)
0.73
0.61
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance outperforms the Vultr High Performance Intel in most benchmarks, particularly excelling in Redis set operations with rates around 68,000 RPS and significantly lower latencies compared to Vultr's around 52,000 RPS. In CPU-intensive tasks, DigitalOcean also leads with more efficient throughput and lower latencies. For workloads favoring CPU performance and low latency, the DigitalOcean instance is the better choice, though Vultr's lower price might appeal to budget-conscious users needing less headroom.
From the friendly human:
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