DigitalOcean Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Last Benchmarked | Sun, 31 May 2026 20:00:52 GMT | Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:52 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 | $12.00 |
| RAM (GB) | 8 | 2 |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 1 |
| Storage (TB) | 160 | 50 |
| Storage Type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Transfer (TB) | 5 | 3 |
CPU
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | AuthenticAMD | AuthenticAMD |
| Model Name | DO-Premium-AMD | AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor |
| Clock Speed (MHz) | 1,996.25 | 2,900.00 |
| CPU Cache Size (KB) | 512.00 | 1,024.00 |
| BogoMips | 3,992.50 | 5,799.99 |
| Events per Second | 1,535.42 | 4,576.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.59 | 0.2 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.65 | 0.22 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 0.89 | 3.32 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.69 | 0.23 |
Memory
Memory Read
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 4,867,578.39 | 7,453,499.54 |
| Mebibytes per second | 4,753.49 | 7,278.81 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 0.19 | 0.58 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
Memory Write
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 4,347,879.44 | 7,526,142.42 |
| Mebibytes per second | 4,245.98 | 7,349.75 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 0.56 | 0.34 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
File I/O
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads per Second | 2,384.51 | 4,488.85 |
| Writes per Second | 1,589.67 | 2,992.54 |
| Fsyncs per Second | 5,095.64 | 9,582.19 |
| Read Mebibytes per Second | 37.26 | 70.14 |
| Written Mebibytes per Second | 24.84 | 46.76 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.11 | 0.06 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 9.42 | 2.5 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.58 | 0.18 |
Mutex
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 325.10 | 1,235.70 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 435.66 | 1,245.09 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 487.90 | 1,250.86 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 484.44 | 1,258.08 |
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 5,392.00 | 12,923.00 |
| Queries per second | 53,920.00 | 129,230.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.37 | 0.71 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.85 | 0.77 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 3 | 2.96 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.35 | 0.87 |
MySQL Write-only
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 3,296.00 | 10,029.00 |
| Queries per second | 32,960.00 | 100,290.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.47 | 0.66 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 3.03 | 1 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 19.45 | 2.69 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 4.41 | 1.37 |
MySQL Read/Write
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 1,930.00 | 5,077.00 |
| Queries per second | 19,300.00 | 50,770.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 3.41 | 1.58 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 5.18 | 1.97 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 26.77 | 5.64 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 6.55 | 2.39 |
MySQL INSERT
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 4,756.00 | 16,678.00 |
| Queries per second | 47,560.00 | 166,780.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.08 | 0.41 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2.1 | 0.6 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 40.66 | 11.33 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 3.25 | 0.74 |
MySQL Bulk INSERT
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 1,434,092.00 | 2,453,467.00 |
| Queries per second | 14,340,920.00 | 24,534,670.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.01 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 418.16 | 225.38 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
MySQL SELECT
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 125,686.00 | 352,826.00 |
| Queries per second | 1,256,860.00 | 3,528,260.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.05 | 0.02 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.08 | 0.03 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 0.84 | 1.28 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.11 | 0.04 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 7,055.00 | 14,624.00 |
| Queries per second | 70,550.00 | 146,240.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.33 | 0.2 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.42 | 0.68 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 7.12 | 3.17 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.07 | 0.89 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 6,592.00 | 14,460.00 |
| Queries per second | 65,920.00 | 144,600.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.43 | 0.19 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.52 | 0.69 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 3.28 | 2.46 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.03 | 0.89 |
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 5,138.00 | 15,256.00 |
| Queries per second | 51,380.00 | 152,560.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.07 | 0.42 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.94 | 0.65 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 39.78 | 2.4 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.81 | 0.99 |
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 4,781.00 | 15,643.00 |
| Queries per second | 47,810.00 | 156,430.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.13 | 0.43 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2.09 | 0.64 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 19.23 | 2.48 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 3.07 | 0.89 |
MySQL DELETE
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 41,513.00 | 209,105.00 |
| Queries per second | 415,130.00 | 2,091,050.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.05 | 0.02 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.24 | 0.05 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 11.7 | 2.34 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.67 | 0.08 |
Redis
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE per Second | 62,073.25 | 42,607.59 |
| PING_MBULK per Second | 58,719.91 | 42,936.88 |
| SET per Second | 54,171.18 | 42,808.22 |
| GET per Second | 64,308.68 | 42,771.60 |
| INCR per Second | 55,648.30 | 42,955.32 |
| LPUSH per Second | 55,493.89 | 42,698.55 |
| RPUSH per Second | 52,938.06 | 42,535.09 |
| LPOP per Second | 62,539.09 | 42,087.54 |
| RPOP per Second | 66,269.05 | 37,551.63 |
| SADD per Second | 62,189.05 | 41,823.50 |
| HSET per Second | 55,157.20 | 42,408.82 |
| SPOP per Second | 54,674.69 | 43,177.89 |
| ZADD per Second | 55,035.77 | 42,265.43 |
| ZPOPMIN per Second | 55,035.77 | 43,122.04 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second | 37,355.25 | 32,916.39 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second | 21,715.53 | 21,367.52 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second | 16,084.93 | 16,228.50 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second | 14,990.26 | 14,363.69 |
| MSET (10 keys) per Second | 57,770.08 | 40,650.41 |
Redis Average Latency (ms)
| DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE | 0.42 | 0.78 |
| PING_MBULK | 0.44 | 0.78 |
| SET | 0.48 | 0.78 |
| GET | 0.40 | 0.78 |
| INCR | 0.47 | 0.78 |
| LPUSH | 0.47 | 0.79 |
| RPUSH | 0.49 | 0.79 |
| LPOP | 0.42 | 0.79 |
| RPOP | 0.39 | 0.92 |
| SADD | 0.42 | 0.79 |
| HSET | 0.47 | 0.79 |
| SPOP | 0.47 | 0.77 |
| ZADD | 0.48 | 0.79 |
| ZPOPMIN | 0.47 | 0.78 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) | 0.78 | 1.01 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) | 1.26 | 1.54 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) | 1.71 | 2.07 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) | 1.91 | 2.34 |
| MSET (10 keys) | 0.47 | 0.84 |
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
After careful analysis of the provided benchmarks, it's clear that the DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance (8 GB, 4 Cores) outperforms the Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB) in most metrics. The DigitalOcean instance delivers higher rates in Redis operations, CPU performance, file I/O, memory operations, and MySQL performance, indicating its superiority in handling CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy workloads, and memory-intensive tasks. The Vultr instance, though having a slightly faster single-core CPU, falls short in multi-core and overall performance metrics, making it less ideal for demanding applications requiring extensive RAM or multiple CPU cores. Therefore, for scenarios demanding high throughput, low latency, and heavy resource utilization, the DigitalOcean instance would be more suitable. Conversely, if the application primarily uses a single core and requires lower resource allocation, the more affordable Vultr instance could be adequate.
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