DigitalOcean Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was 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 Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 30 May 2026 09:00:52 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
$32.00
$18.00
RAM (GB)
4
2
CPU Cores
2
2
Storage (TB)
120
60
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
4
4
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 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
1,105.91
4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.81
0.2
Average Latency (ms)
0.9
0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.58
1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.94
0.23
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second
5,112,837.36
7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second
4,993.01
7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.29
0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second
5,145,096.02
7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second
5,024.51
7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.1
0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second
4,269.89
5,114.79
Writes per Second
2,846.59
3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second
9,119.49
10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second
66.72
79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second
44.48
53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.62
3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.19
0.12
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)
836.55
574.03
Average Latency (ms)
845.58
637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
853.23
663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
846.57
657.93
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
7,445.00
9,622.00
Queries per second
74,450.00
96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.09
0.73
Average Latency (ms)
1.34
1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.98
2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.82
1.12
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,283.00
9,585.00
Queries per second
62,830.00
95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.82
0.8
Average Latency (ms)
1.59
1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.44
2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.3
1.32
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,403.00
4,686.00
Queries per second
34,030.00
46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.9
1.57
Average Latency (ms)
2.94
2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)
42.51
4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.18
2.52
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
11,338.00
15,965.00
Queries per second
113,380.00
159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.46
0.45
Average Latency (ms)
0.88
0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.65
2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.27
0.74
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,521,467.00
3,065,092.00
Queries per second
15,214,670.00
30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
325.46
208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
205,893.00
217,035.00
Queries per second
2,058,930.00
2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.03
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.05
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.03
0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.06
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,754.00
14,818.00
Queries per second
67,540.00
148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.55
0.24
Average Latency (ms)
1.48
0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.87
1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.14
0.86
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,857.00
14,341.00
Queries per second
68,570.00
143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.52
0.27
Average Latency (ms)
1.46
0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.85
1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.39
0.89
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
8,465.00
14,864.00
Queries per second
84,650.00
148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.49
0.47
Average Latency (ms)
1.18
0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)
14.56
2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
0.87
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
12,125.00
15,284.00
Queries per second
121,250.00
152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.45
0.46
Average Latency (ms)
0.82
0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.17
1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.21
0.83
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
132,912.00
151,536.00
Queries per second
1,329,120.00
1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.03
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.87
4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.1
0.08
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second
93,196.65
55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second
99,009.90
57,903.88
SET per Second
97,465.88
57,703.40
GET per Second
91,324.20
57,703.40
INCR per Second
89,928.05
57,372.34
LPUSH per Second
86,355.79
57,836.90
RPUSH per Second
86,132.64
58,173.36
LPOP per Second
86,281.27
58,343.06
RPOP per Second
98,425.20
58,343.06
SADD per Second
92,678.41
58,241.12
HSET per Second
90,252.70
58,858.15
SPOP per Second
99,700.90
58,892.82
ZADD per Second
99,403.58
57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second
98,039.22
57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
50,632.91
49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
22,909.51
34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
15,487.07
26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
13,222.27
24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second
79,113.92
58,548.01
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE
0.30
0.48
PING_MBULK
0.30
0.44
SET
0.28
0.45
GET
0.28
0.45
INCR
0.30
0.45
LPUSH
0.34
0.44
RPUSH
0.32
0.44
LPOP
0.36
0.44
RPOP
0.27
0.44
SADD
0.30
0.44
HSET
0.32
0.44
SPOP
0.27
0.44
ZADD
0.26
0.45
ZPOPMIN
0.27
0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.66
0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.31
0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.92
0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.27
1.05
MSET (10 keys)
0.39
0.44
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium Intel instance outperforms the Vultr High Performance AMD instance in most benchmarks, showing higher RPS in Redis operations and better latency across the board, particularly in more complex operations like LRANGE. The DigitalOcean instance also demonstrates superior CPU performance and lower thread latency. While the Vultr instance has slightly better file I/O performance and lower cost, the DigitalOcean instance provides better overall CPU and memory performance, making it ideal for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads. The Vultr instance, however, could be a better choice for cost-sensitive applications where moderate performance is acceptable.
From the friendly human:
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