DigitalOcean Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked
Sun, 31 May 2026 20:00:52 GMT
Sun, 31 May 2026 03:00:52 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
$48.00
RAM (GB)
8
8
CPU Cores
4
4
Storage (TB)
160
180
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
5
6
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
3,992.50
5,786.33
Events per Second
1,535.42
1,164.11
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.59
0.83
Average Latency (ms)
0.65
0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.89
1.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.69
0.9
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second
4,867,578.39
5,268,671.27
Mebibytes per second
4,753.49
5,145.19
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.19
0.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second
4,347,879.44
5,300,398.23
Mebibytes per second
4,245.98
5,176.17
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.56
0.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second
2,384.51
8,120.73
Writes per Second
1,589.67
5,413.82
Fsyncs per Second
5,095.64
17,334.39
Read Mebibytes per Second
37.26
126.89
Written Mebibytes per Second
24.84
84.59
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.11
0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.42
16.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.58
0.1
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)
325.10
197.88
Average Latency (ms)
435.66
357.16
Maximum Latency (ms)
487.90
411.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
484.44
411.96
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,392.00
7,388.00
Queries per second
53,920.00
73,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.37
1.14
Average Latency (ms)
1.85
1.35
Maximum Latency (ms)
3
3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
1.7
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,296.00
7,997.00
Queries per second
32,960.00
79,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.47
0.87
Average Latency (ms)
3.03
1.25
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.45
3.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.41
1.55
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,930.00
3,262.00
Queries per second
19,300.00
32,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.41
2.17
Average Latency (ms)
5.18
3.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.77
7.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.55
3.82
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
4,756.00
12,898.00
Queries per second
47,560.00
128,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.08
0.44
Average Latency (ms)
2.1
0.77
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.66
11.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.25
1.04
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,434,092.00
1,434,092.00
Queries per second
14,340,920.00
14,340,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
418.16
363.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
125,686.00
190,206.00
Queries per second
1,256,860.00
1,902,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.84
2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.07
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
7,055.00
6,349.00
Queries per second
70,550.00
63,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.33
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
1.57
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.12
3.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.07
2.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,592.00
7,578.00
Queries per second
65,920.00
75,780.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.43
0.33
Average Latency (ms)
1.52
1.32
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.28
3.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
1.79
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,138.00
12,520.00
Queries per second
51,380.00
125,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.07
0.44
Average Latency (ms)
1.94
0.8
Maximum Latency (ms)
39.78
3.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.81
1.06
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
4,781.00
13,084.00
Queries per second
47,810.00
130,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.13
0.45
Average Latency (ms)
2.09
0.76
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.23
4.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.07
0.99
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
41,513.00
116,263.00
Queries per second
415,130.00
1,162,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.24
0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.7
3.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.67
0.12
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second
62,073.25
53,022.27
PING_MBULK per Second
58,719.91
58,139.54
SET per Second
54,171.18
58,309.04
GET per Second
64,308.68
59,453.03
INCR per Second
55,648.30
60,024.01
LPUSH per Second
55,493.89
58,997.05
RPUSH per Second
52,938.06
59,916.12
LPOP per Second
62,539.09
60,938.45
RPOP per Second
66,269.05
61,804.70
SADD per Second
62,189.05
62,189.05
HSET per Second
55,157.20
63,131.31
SPOP per Second
54,674.69
61,274.51
ZADD per Second
55,035.77
61,312.08
ZPOPMIN per Second
55,035.77
63,653.72
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
37,355.25
42,535.09
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
21,715.53
25,018.76
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
16,084.93
17,895.49
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
14,990.26
15,649.45
MSET (10 keys) per Second
57,770.08
61,199.51
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE
0.42
0.49
PING_MBULK
0.44
0.44
SET
0.48
0.44
GET
0.40
0.43
INCR
0.47
0.43
LPUSH
0.47
0.44
RPUSH
0.49
0.43
LPOP
0.42
0.43
RPOP
0.39
0.42
SADD
0.42
0.47
HSET
0.47
0.45
SPOP
0.47
0.42
ZADD
0.48
0.43
ZPOPMIN
0.47
0.45
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.78
0.87
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.26
1.46
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.71
1.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
1.91
1.77
MSET (10 keys)
0.47
0.45
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
After a detailed analysis of the benchmarks from both DigitalOcean's Premium AMD and Vultr's High Performance Intel instances, it's clear that both offer strong performance but cater to slightly different use cases. The DigitalOcean instance demonstrates exceptional performance in memory operations and Redis benchmarks, especially in commands like LRANGE which scale significantly well under higher loads. This makes it a strong contender for CPU-bound applications and those requiring high memory throughput. On the other hand, the Vultr instance excels in CPU-intensive tasks and high I/O operations, especially in MySQL and Redis SET and GET commands where it shows higher request rates per second. This makes it ideal for applications that benefit from more powerful CPUs and higher throughput in file operations. Therefore, the choice between these instances should be driven by the specific requirements of your application, whether it leans more towards memory operations or CPU and I/O performance.
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