DigitalOcean Premium Intel (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.
Overview
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Last Benchmarked | Fri, 29 May 2026 03:00:52 GMT | Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 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 | $8.00 | $18.00 |
| RAM (GB) | 1 | 2 |
| CPU Cores | 1 | 2 |
| Storage (TB) | 35 | 60 |
| Storage Type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Transfer (TB) | 1 | 4 |
CPU
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | GenuineIntel | AuthenticAMD |
| Model Name | DO-Premium-Intel | AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor |
| Clock Speed (MHz) | 2,494.14 | 2,899.99 |
| CPU Cache Size (KB) | 4,096.00 | 1,024.00 |
| BogoMips | 4,988.28 | 5,799.98 |
| Events per Second | 525.49 | 4,648.14 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.91 | 0.2 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.9 | 0.21 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 5.34 | 1.26 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 3.36 | 0.23 |
Memory
Memory Read
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 4,052,256.26 | 7,548,502.85 |
| Mebibytes per second | 3,957.28 | 7,371.58 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 1.41 | 0.08 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
Memory Write
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 4,271,857.39 | 7,544,807.09 |
| Mebibytes per second | 4,171.74 | 7,367.98 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 2.04 | 0.12 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
File I/O
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads per Second | 2,628.32 | 5,114.79 |
| Writes per Second | 1,752.18 | 3,409.86 |
| Fsyncs per Second | 5,614.96 | 10,914.44 |
| Read Mebibytes per Second | 41.07 | 79.92 |
| Written Mebibytes per Second | 27.38 | 53.28 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.1 | 0.05 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 6.87 | 3.7 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.28 | 0.12 |
Mutex
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 2,115.84 | 574.03 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2,129.80 | 637.47 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 2,143.49 | 663.74 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2,159.29 | 657.93 |
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 8,113.00 | 9,622.00 |
| Queries per second | 81,130.00 | 96,220.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.92 | 0.73 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.23 | 1.04 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 11.74 | 2.22 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.07 | 1.12 |
MySQL Write-only
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 9,056.00 | 9,585.00 |
| Queries per second | 90,560.00 | 95,850.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.1 | 1.04 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 5.23 | 2.18 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.55 | 1.32 |
MySQL Read/Write
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 3,920.00 | 4,686.00 |
| Queries per second | 39,200.00 | 46,860.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.89 | 1.57 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2.55 | 2.13 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 7.14 | 4.26 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 3.13 | 2.52 |
MySQL INSERT
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 9,248.00 | 15,965.00 |
| Queries per second | 92,480.00 | 159,650.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.49 | 0.45 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.08 | 0.62 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 17.97 | 2.23 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.61 | 0.74 |
MySQL Bulk INSERT
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 996,869.00 | 3,065,092.00 |
| Queries per second | 9,968,690.00 | 30,650,920.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.01 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 403.83 | 208.51 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
MySQL SELECT
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 173,603.00 | 217,035.00 |
| Queries per second | 1,736,030.00 | 2,170,350.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.06 | 0.05 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 2.33 | 0.61 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.09 | 0.06 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 8,411.00 | 14,818.00 |
| Queries per second | 84,110.00 | 148,180.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.4 | 0.24 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.19 | 0.67 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 4.33 | 1.94 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.52 | 0.86 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 8,316.00 | 14,341.00 |
| Queries per second | 83,160.00 | 143,410.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.37 | 0.27 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.2 | 0.7 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 4.44 | 1.67 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.58 | 0.89 |
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 14,540.00 | 14,864.00 |
| Queries per second | 145,400.00 | 148,640.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.41 | 0.47 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.69 | 0.67 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 10.37 | 2.36 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.06 | 0.87 |
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 15,807.00 | 15,284.00 |
| Queries per second | 158,070.00 | 152,840.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.4 | 0.46 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.63 | 0.65 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 6.44 | 1.65 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.87 | 0.83 |
MySQL DELETE
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 86,818.00 | 151,536.00 |
| Queries per second | 868,180.00 | 1,515,360.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.11 | 0.07 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 6.38 | 4.83 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.27 | 0.08 |
Redis
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE per Second | 81,300.81 | 55,991.04 |
| PING_MBULK per Second | 82,304.52 | 57,903.88 |
| SET per Second | 75,757.57 | 57,703.40 |
| GET per Second | 83,194.67 | 57,703.40 |
| INCR per Second | 85,178.88 | 57,372.34 |
| LPUSH per Second | 84,459.46 | 57,836.90 |
| RPUSH per Second | 83,125.52 | 58,173.36 |
| LPOP per Second | 81,900.09 | 58,343.06 |
| RPOP per Second | 76,394.20 | 58,343.06 |
| SADD per Second | 83,056.48 | 58,241.12 |
| HSET per Second | 78,125.00 | 58,858.15 |
| SPOP per Second | 83,612.04 | 58,892.82 |
| ZADD per Second | 82,440.23 | 57,504.31 |
| ZPOPMIN per Second | 82,781.46 | 57,870.37 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second | 39,714.06 | 49,236.83 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second | 18,487.71 | 34,818.94 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second | 12,068.55 | 26,766.60 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second | 10,504.20 | 24,207.21 |
| MSET (10 keys) per Second | 70,972.32 | 58,548.01 |
Redis Average Latency (ms)
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE | 0.40 | 0.48 |
| PING_MBULK | 0.39 | 0.44 |
| SET | 0.43 | 0.45 |
| GET | 0.39 | 0.45 |
| INCR | 0.38 | 0.45 |
| LPUSH | 0.39 | 0.44 |
| RPUSH | 0.39 | 0.44 |
| LPOP | 0.40 | 0.44 |
| RPOP | 0.43 | 0.44 |
| SADD | 0.39 | 0.44 |
| HSET | 0.42 | 0.44 |
| SPOP | 0.39 | 0.44 |
| ZADD | 0.40 | 0.45 |
| ZPOPMIN | 0.39 | 0.44 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) | 0.91 | 0.53 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) | 1.96 | 0.74 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) | 3.02 | 0.95 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) | 3.46 | 1.05 |
| MSET (10 keys) | 0.50 | 0.44 |
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
In comparing the benchmarks for the DigitalOcean Premium Intel (1 GB) instance and the Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 cores) instance, it is clear that the DigitalOcean instance excels in high-throughput Redis operations, delivering consistently high requests per second with low latency across a variety of commands. In contrast, the Vultr instance, despite having more CPU cores and memory, shows slightly lower Redis performance but has superior CPU performance metrics and higher throughput in file I/O operations. For CPU-intensive or memory-heavy workloads, the Vultr instance appears more suitable due to its multi-core processing and enhanced I/O capabilities. Conversely, if high Redis throughput and lower latency are paramount, the DigitalOcean instance would be the preferred choice. Both instances provide robust performance, but their strengths lie in different areas depending on the specific use case requirements.
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