DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 30 May 2026 22:00:52 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 $16.00 $18.00
RAM (GB) 2 2
CPU Cores 1 2
Storage (TB) 70 60
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 4

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 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 495.64 4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 0.2
Average Latency (ms) 2.01 0.21
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.47 1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 0.23

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 3,562,900.21 7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second 3,479.39 7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.78 0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 4,559,986.14 7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second 4,453.11 7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.03 0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 2,991.18 5,114.79
Writes per Second 1,994.09 3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second 6,381.40 10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second 46.74 79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second 31.16 53.28
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.55 3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.25 0.12

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,305.94 574.03
Average Latency (ms) 2,325.82 637.47
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,341.18 663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,320.55 657.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,642.00 9,622.00
Queries per second 56,420.00 96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.09 0.73
Average Latency (ms) 1.77 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.6 2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.26 1.12

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,500.00 9,585.00
Queries per second 65,000.00 95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.69 0.8
Average Latency (ms) 1.54 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.05 2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.07 1.32

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,286.00 4,686.00
Queries per second 22,860.00 46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.63 1.57
Average Latency (ms) 4.37 2.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.8 4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.88 2.52

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 8,299.00 15,965.00
Queries per second 82,990.00 159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.48 0.45
Average Latency (ms) 1.2 0.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.9 2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.93 0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 964,103.00 3,065,092.00
Queries per second 9,641,030.00 30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 474.48 208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 181,396.00 217,035.00
Queries per second 1,813,960.00 2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.44 0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.08 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 8,155.00 14,818.00
Queries per second 81,550.00 148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.47 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 1.22 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.12 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.58 0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 8,540.00 14,341.00
Queries per second 85,400.00 143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.33 0.27
Average Latency (ms) 1.17 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.83 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.52 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,509.00 14,864.00
Queries per second 75,090.00 148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.5 0.47
Average Latency (ms) 1.33 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.77 2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.26 0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 9,508.00 15,284.00
Queries per second 95,080.00 152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.46 0.46
Average Latency (ms) 1.05 0.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.78 1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.52 0.83

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 85,917.00 151,536.00
Queries per second 859,170.00 1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.03 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.12 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.24 4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.29 0.08

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 83,263.95 55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second 86,880.97 57,903.88
SET per Second 82,987.55 57,703.40
GET per Second 85,616.44 57,703.40
INCR per Second 84,674.01 57,372.34
LPUSH per Second 82,781.46 57,836.90
RPUSH per Second 84,530.86 58,173.36
LPOP per Second 82,781.46 58,343.06
RPOP per Second 81,967.21 58,343.06
SADD per Second 84,317.03 58,241.12
HSET per Second 76,923.08 58,858.15
SPOP per Second 86,058.52 58,892.82
ZADD per Second 82,034.45 57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second 84,817.64 57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 42,176.30 49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 19,331.14 34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 12,430.08 26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 10,767.74 24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second 72,886.30 58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.390.48
PING_MBULK0.370.44
SET0.390.45
GET0.380.45
INCR0.380.45
LPUSH0.390.44
RPUSH0.390.44
LPOP0.400.44
RPOP0.400.44
SADD0.390.44
HSET0.420.44
SPOP0.380.44
ZADD0.400.45
ZPOPMIN0.380.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.860.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.910.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.950.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.391.05
MSET (10 keys)0.480.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Upon analyzing the benchmarks for both DigitalOcean's Premium Intel (2 GB) and Vultr's High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores), we observe that DigitalOcean provides a more robust performance in Redis operations, with notably higher requests per second (rps) and lower latency across most operations, indicating superior performance in CPU-intensive tasks. However, Vultr shows stronger capabilities in file I/O and memory operations, with higher throughput and lower latencies. Both instances offer comparable MySQL performance and similar thread fairness, but Vultr's dual-core AMD processor provides competitive advantages in scenarios demanding higher throughput or parallel processing tasks. Ideal use cases for DigitalOcean's instance would be scenarios prioritizing high Redis performance, while Vultr's configuration might be more suitable for workloads that benefit from higher file I/O and memory throughput.

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