DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were 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 Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 30 May 2026 19:00:52 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
$24.00
$18.00
RAM (GB)
2
2
CPU Cores
2
2
Storage (TB)
90
60
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
3
4
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
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
963.13
4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.91
0.2
Average Latency (ms)
1.04
0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.44
1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.25
0.23
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second
3,902,195.50
7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second
3,810.74
7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.26
0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second
4,569,743.82
7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second
4,462.64
7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.15
0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second
2,742.35
5,114.79
Writes per Second
1,828.23
3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second
5,857.37
10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second
42.85
79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second
28.57
53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.1
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.7
3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.27
0.12
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)
916.48
574.03
Average Latency (ms)
1,020.85
637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,118.20
663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,109.09
657.93
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,193.00
9,622.00
Queries per second
61,930.00
96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.19
0.73
Average Latency (ms)
1.61
1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.58
2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.22
1.12
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,552.00
9,585.00
Queries per second
55,520.00
95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.9
0.8
Average Latency (ms)
1.8
1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.37
2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.52
1.32
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
2,616.00
4,686.00
Queries per second
26,160.00
46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.57
1.57
Average Latency (ms)
3.82
2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.45
4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5
2.52
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
8,253.00
15,965.00
Queries per second
82,530.00
159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.54
0.45
Average Latency (ms)
1.21
0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.31
2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.76
0.74
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,346,717.00
3,065,092.00
Queries per second
13,467,170.00
30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
383.36
208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
167,795.00
217,035.00
Queries per second
1,677,950.00
2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.06
0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.09
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,976.00
14,818.00
Queries per second
59,760.00
148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.56
0.24
Average Latency (ms)
1.67
0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.01
1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.52
0.86
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,014.00
14,341.00
Queries per second
60,140.00
143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.67
0.27
Average Latency (ms)
1.66
0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.75
1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.76
0.89
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
8,636.00
14,864.00
Queries per second
86,360.00
148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.53
0.47
Average Latency (ms)
1.16
0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.85
2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.7
0.87
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
8,678.00
15,284.00
Queries per second
86,780.00
152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.51
0.46
Average Latency (ms)
1.15
0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.84
1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.67
0.83
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
67,961.00
151,536.00
Queries per second
679,610.00
1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.15
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.86
4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.83
0.08
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second
80,450.52
55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second
89,047.20
57,903.88
SET per Second
84,602.37
57,703.40
GET per Second
86,281.27
57,703.40
INCR per Second
77,220.08
57,372.34
LPUSH per Second
71,942.45
57,836.90
RPUSH per Second
82,304.52
58,173.36
LPOP per Second
83,892.62
58,343.06
RPOP per Second
85,836.91
58,343.06
SADD per Second
87,108.02
58,241.12
HSET per Second
84,388.19
58,858.15
SPOP per Second
79,239.30
58,892.82
ZADD per Second
82,440.23
57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second
81,499.59
57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
44,702.73
49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
22,276.68
34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
14,349.26
26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
12,738.85
24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second
73,746.31
58,548.01
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE
0.41
0.48
PING_MBULK
0.32
0.44
SET
0.40
0.45
GET
0.37
0.45
INCR
0.38
0.45
LPUSH
0.37
0.44
RPUSH
0.34
0.44
LPOP
0.32
0.44
RPOP
0.40
0.44
SADD
0.32
0.44
HSET
0.34
0.44
SPOP
0.39
0.44
ZADD
0.39
0.45
ZPOPMIN
0.33
0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.68
0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.37
0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.06
0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.40
1.05
MSET (10 keys)
0.37
0.44
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
In benchmarking, the DigitalOcean Premium Intel instance shows higher Redis performance in most operations with notable RPS and lower latency, particularly in complex commands like LRANGE, indicating superior memory handling. Conversely, the Vultr High Performance AMD instance has a higher clock speed and higher file I/O throughput, although its Redis performance is slightly lower. MySQL operations show similar performance, but Vultr excels in thread and CPU latency metrics. Ideal use cases for DigitalOcean instances would be for workloads that benefit from superior memory performance and lower latency for Redis commands, while Vultr instances would be better suited for applications that demand high file I/O throughput and lower CPU/thread latency, such as I/O-intensive applications.
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