DigitalOcean Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sun, 31 May 2026 20:00:52 GMT
Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-71-generic
6.8.0-117-generic
MySQL Version
8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version
7.0.15
7.0.15
Location
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
$56.00
$6.00
RAM (GB)
8
1
CPU Cores
4
1
Storage (TB)
160
25
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
5
2
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
1,024.00
BogoMips
3,992.50
5,799.98
Events per Second
1,535.42
4,607.94
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.59
0.2
Average Latency (ms)
0.65
0.22
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.89
2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.69
0.23
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second
4,867,578.39
7,508,915.29
Mebibytes per second
4,753.49
7,332.93
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.19
0.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second
4,347,879.44
7,508,384.17
Mebibytes per second
4,245.98
7,332.41
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.56
0.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Reads per Second
2,384.51
3,939.27
Writes per Second
1,589.67
2,626.18
Fsyncs per Second
5,095.64
8,404.57
Read Mebibytes per Second
37.26
61.55
Written Mebibytes per Second
24.84
41.03
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.11
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.42
1.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.58
0.19
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
325.10
1,239.80
Average Latency (ms)
435.66
1,244.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
487.90
1,247.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
484.44
1,258.08
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,392.00
12,732.00
Queries per second
53,920.00
127,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.37
0.71
Average Latency (ms)
1.85
0.78
Maximum Latency (ms)
3
6.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
0.86
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,296.00
9,794.00
Queries per second
32,960.00
97,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.47
0.68
Average Latency (ms)
3.03
1.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.45
5.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.41
1.42
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,930.00
5,010.00
Queries per second
19,300.00
50,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.41
1.59
Average Latency (ms)
5.18
1.99
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.77
6.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.55
2.48
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,756.00
16,602.00
Queries per second
47,560.00
166,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.08
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
2.1
0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.66
2.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.25
0.74
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,434,092.00
2,395,217.00
Queries per second
14,340,920.00
23,952,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
418.16
282.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
125,686.00
334,324.00
Queries per second
1,256,860.00
3,343,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.84
3.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.04
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,055.00
14,634.00
Queries per second
70,550.00
146,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.33
0.23
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.12
3.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.07
0.87
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,592.00
14,636.00
Queries per second
65,920.00
146,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.43
0.18
Average Latency (ms)
1.52
0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.28
2.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
0.89
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,138.00
15,563.00
Queries per second
51,380.00
155,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.07
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
1.94
0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)
39.78
2.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.81
0.94
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,781.00
15,941.00
Queries per second
47,810.00
159,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.13
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
2.09
0.63
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.23
5.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.07
0.89
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
41,513.00
203,485.00
Queries per second
415,130.00
2,034,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.24
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.7
8.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.67
0.08
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
62,073.25
42,265.43
PING_MBULK per Second
58,719.91
43,047.79
SET per Second
54,171.18
42,211.91
GET per Second
64,308.68
42,625.75
INCR per Second
55,648.30
42,918.46
LPUSH per Second
55,493.89
42,069.84
RPUSH per Second
52,938.06
37,285.61
LPOP per Second
62,539.09
42,354.93
RPOP per Second
66,269.05
42,247.57
SADD per Second
62,189.05
42,698.55
HSET per Second
55,157.20
42,826.55
SPOP per Second
54,674.69
42,265.43
ZADD per Second
55,035.77
42,607.59
ZPOPMIN per Second
55,035.77
42,955.32
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
37,355.25
32,320.62
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
21,715.53
22,163.12
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
16,084.93
16,268.10
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
14,990.26
14,566.64
MSET (10 keys) per Second
57,770.08
41,152.26
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.42
0.78
PING_MBULK
0.44
0.77
SET
0.48
0.79
GET
0.40
0.78
INCR
0.47
0.78
LPUSH
0.47
0.80
RPUSH
0.49
0.92
LPOP
0.42
0.79
RPOP
0.39
0.79
SADD
0.42
0.78
HSET
0.47
0.78
SPOP
0.47
0.79
ZADD
0.48
0.79
ZPOPMIN
0.47
0.77
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.78
1.02
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.26
1.49
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.71
2.07
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
1.91
2.29
MSET (10 keys)
0.47
0.82
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
After analyzing the benchmark results for both the DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance and the Vultr High Performance AMD instance, it is clear that the DigitalOcean instance outperforms the Vultr instance in terms of overall processing capabilities, as evidenced by higher requests per second (rps) across various benchmarks and lower latency times. The DigitalOcean instance provides more CPU cores and RAM, resulting in superior performance for both CPU-intensive tasks and memory-related operations. The Vultr instance, though boasting a higher clock speed for its single CPU core, falls short in multi-core performance scenarios, making the DigitalOcean instance a better choice for applications requiring higher concurrency and memory usage, while the Vultr instance may serve as a more cost-effective solution for less demanding applications with minimal threading requirements.
From the friendly human:
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