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DigitalOcean Premium Intel (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:06:48 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:10:32 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 $8.00 $6.00
RAM (GB) 1 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 35 25
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name DO-Premium-Intel AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,494.14 2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 4,096.00 512.00
BogoMips 4,988.27 5,799.99
Events per Second 990.53 4,265.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.93 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.01 0.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.75 2.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 0.25

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second 4,986,667.23 7,464,475.78
Mebibytes per second 4,869.79 7,289.53
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second 4,811,794.28 7,463,313.82
Mebibytes per second 4,699.02 7,288.39
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.38 0.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Reads per Second 3,138.93 4,654.93
Writes per Second 2,092.55 3,103.29
Fsyncs per Second 6,701.92 9,940.75
Read Mebibytes per Second 49.05 72.73
Written Mebibytes per Second 32.70 48.49
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.98 6.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.24 0.12

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,655.46 1,248.49
Average Latency (ms) 1,661.19 1,255.90
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,666.55 1,259.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,678.14 1,258.08

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 8,768.00 13,980.00
Queries per second 87,680.00 139,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.01 0.66
Average Latency (ms) 1.14 0.71
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.98 2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.39 0.78

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,876.00 12,263.00
Queries per second 78,760.00 122,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.8 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 1.27 0.81
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.49 11.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.76 0.99

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,893.00 6,080.00
Queries per second 38,930.00 60,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.06 1.41
Average Latency (ms) 2.57 1.64
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.44 21.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 1.82

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 14,470.00 18,710.00
Queries per second 144,700.00 187,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.46 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 0.69 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.41 8.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.99 0.61

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,346,717.00 2,336,967.00
Queries per second 13,467,170.00 23,369,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 324.88 203.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 232,319.00 369,485.00
Queries per second 2,323,190.00 3,694,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.67 3.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,586.00 11,876.00
Queries per second 55,860.00 118,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.28
Average Latency (ms) 1.79 0.84
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.16 2.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.39 1.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,682.00 14,716.00
Queries per second 76,820.00 147,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.51 0.26
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.94 1.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.73 0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 13,782.00 18,432.00
Queries per second 137,820.00 184,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.48 0.44
Average Latency (ms) 0.72 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.11 11.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.03 0.63

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 14,614.00 18,602.00
Queries per second 146,140.00 186,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.47 0.44
Average Latency (ms) 0.68 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.04 12.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.95 0.62

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 157,825.00 258,339.00
Queries per second 1,578,250.00 2,583,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.03 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 19.19 10.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.06

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 64,850.84 48,402.71
PING_MBULK per Second 66,711.14 47,326.08
SET per Second 70,175.44 48,192.77
GET per Second 71,684.59 47,801.15
INCR per Second 72,411.30 47,961.63
LPUSH per Second 69,832.40 45,085.66
RPUSH per Second 71,839.09 47,528.52
LPOP per Second 71,377.59 47,778.31
RPOP per Second 71,942.45 47,551.12
SADD per Second 71,428.57 47,483.38
HSET per Second 67,934.78 47,641.73
SPOP per Second 72,358.90 46,576.62
ZADD per Second 71,123.76 47,370.91
ZPOPMIN per Second 73,746.31 46,317.74
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 38,476.34 37,579.86
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 18,198.36 24,539.88
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 12,655.02 17,995.32
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 10,430.79 16,262.81
MSET (10 keys) per Second 63,816.21 47,192.07

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.490.64
PING_MBULK0.470.64
SET0.450.65
GET0.440.64
INCR0.440.65
LPUSH0.450.70
RPUSH0.440.66
LPOP0.440.66
RPOP0.440.66
SADD0.440.65
HSET0.470.66
SPOP0.430.66
ZADD0.440.67
ZPOPMIN0.420.66
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.870.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.781.32
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.691.70
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.071.92
MSET (10 keys)0.630.71

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The DigitalOcean Premium Intel instance outperforms the Vultr High Performance AMD instance in both CPU-intensive tasks and memory operations, as evidenced by Redis benchmarks showing higher requests per second (e.g., DigitalOcean's LPUSH at 68823 vs Vultr's 45086) and faster average latencies. Additionally, the memory read operations benchmark on DigitalOcean clocks in with significantly lower latencies (avg 0ms) compared to Vultr (avg 0ms). DigitalOcean's superior performance across these key benchmarks makes it a better choice for CPU-heavy or memory-intensive applications, while Vultr might be more cost-effective but lags in raw performance.

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