DigitalOcean Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Last Benchmarked | Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:52 GMT | Sat, 30 May 2026 23:00:52 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 | $64.00 | $48.00 |
| RAM (GB) | 8 | 8 |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Storage (TB) | 240 | 180 |
| Storage Type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Transfer (TB) | 6 | 6 |
CPU
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | GenuineIntel | AuthenticAMD |
| Model Name | DO-Premium-Intel | AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor |
| Clock Speed (MHz) | 1,995.31 | 2,900.00 |
| CPU Cache Size (KB) | 4,096.00 | 1,024.00 |
| BogoMips | 3,990.61 | 5,799.99 |
| Events per Second | 2,100.00 | 4,651.31 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.46 | 0.2 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.48 | 0.21 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 0.77 | 0.87 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.49 | 0.22 |
Memory
Memory Read
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 4,031,036.30 | 7,539,967.02 |
| Mebibytes per second | 3,936.56 | 7,363.25 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 0.09 | 0.06 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
Memory Write
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 4,327,248.72 | 7,548,797.16 |
| Mebibytes per second | 4,225.83 | 7,371.87 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 0.18 | 0.08 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
File I/O
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads per Second | 1,848.36 | 7,813.30 |
| Writes per Second | 1,232.24 | 5,208.87 |
| Fsyncs per Second | 3,943.27 | 16,674.38 |
| Read Mebibytes per Second | 28.88 | 122.08 |
| Written Mebibytes per Second | 19.25 | 81.39 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.14 | 0.03 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 32.73 | 0.89 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.83 | 0.11 |
Mutex
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 496.91 | 163.69 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 678.09 | 303.04 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 755.25 | 365.09 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 759.88 | 363.18 |
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 5,172.00 | 9,620.00 |
| Queries per second | 51,720.00 | 96,200.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.28 | 0.79 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.93 | 1.04 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 8.32 | 1.94 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.61 | 1.16 |
MySQL Write-only
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 2,301.00 | 8,700.00 |
| Queries per second | 23,010.00 | 87,000.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.35 | 0.84 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 4.34 | 1.15 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 12.64 | 7.82 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 7.3 | 1.34 |
MySQL Read/Write
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 1,495.00 | 4,664.00 |
| Queries per second | 14,950.00 | 46,640.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 2.89 | 1.63 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 6.68 | 2.14 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 19.01 | 4.23 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 10.46 | 2.57 |
MySQL INSERT
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 3,010.00 | 13,911.00 |
| Queries per second | 30,100.00 | 139,110.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.11 | 0.45 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 3.32 | 0.72 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 14.62 | 2.28 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 6.09 | 0.89 |
MySQL Bulk INSERT
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 1,201,092.00 | 2,715,592.00 |
| Queries per second | 12,010,920.00 | 27,155,920.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.01 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 566.03 | 213.69 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
MySQL SELECT
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 157,927.00 | 219,615.00 |
| Queries per second | 1,579,270.00 | 2,196,150.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.06 | 0.05 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 2.99 | 0.86 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.09 | 0.06 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 5,434.00 | 14,319.00 |
| Queries per second | 54,340.00 | 143,190.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.45 | 0.23 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.84 | 0.7 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 14.81 | 3.5 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.71 | 0.9 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 6,582.00 | 13,994.00 |
| Queries per second | 65,820.00 | 139,940.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.57 | 0.23 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.52 | 0.71 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 5.15 | 1.63 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.66 | 0.94 |
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 3,033.00 | 13,411.00 |
| Queries per second | 30,330.00 | 134,110.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1 | 0.48 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 3.29 | 0.75 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 67.75 | 13.33 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 5.99 | 0.94 |
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 3,268.00 | 13,309.00 |
| Queries per second | 32,680.00 | 133,090.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.03 | 0.49 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 3.06 | 0.75 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 11.49 | 3.45 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 5.57 | 0.94 |
MySQL DELETE
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 24,924.00 | 144,026.00 |
| Queries per second | 249,240.00 | 1,440,260.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.4 | 0.07 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 26.64 | 2.07 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.81 | 0.08 |
Redis
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE per Second | 93,545.37 | 68,119.89 |
| PING_MBULK per Second | 87,796.30 | 64,184.86 |
| SET per Second | 93,457.94 | 63,371.36 |
| GET per Second | 94,250.71 | 66,401.06 |
| INCR per Second | 85,106.38 | 62,305.30 |
| LPUSH per Second | 95,057.03 | 60,827.25 |
| RPUSH per Second | 86,505.19 | 67,114.09 |
| LPOP per Second | 89,285.71 | 63,613.23 |
| RPOP per Second | 100,100.10 | 67,340.07 |
| SADD per Second | 90,661.83 | 70,521.86 |
| HSET per Second | 90,415.91 | 66,401.06 |
| SPOP per Second | 96,432.02 | 62,695.92 |
| ZADD per Second | 97,751.71 | 58,685.45 |
| ZPOPMIN per Second | 97,751.71 | 57,971.02 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second | 58,997.05 | 55,586.44 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second | 26,191.72 | 35,026.27 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second | 15,961.69 | 26,357.41 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second | 14,390.56 | 23,906.29 |
| MSET (10 keys) per Second | 73,152.89 | 66,577.90 |
Redis Average Latency (ms)
| DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE | 0.28 | 0.38 |
| PING_MBULK | 0.31 | 0.40 |
| SET | 0.31 | 0.41 |
| GET | 0.28 | 0.39 |
| INCR | 0.31 | 0.41 |
| LPUSH | 0.29 | 0.42 |
| RPUSH | 0.32 | 0.38 |
| LPOP | 0.32 | 0.41 |
| RPOP | 0.27 | 0.38 |
| SADD | 0.32 | 0.36 |
| HSET | 0.29 | 0.39 |
| SPOP | 0.30 | 0.41 |
| ZADD | 0.31 | 0.44 |
| ZPOPMIN | 0.28 | 0.44 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) | 0.46 | 0.46 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) | 1.05 | 0.75 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) | 2.04 | 0.98 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) | 2.12 | 1.10 |
| MSET (10 keys) | 0.49 | 0.39 |
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Based on the benchmark performance, the DigitalOcean Premium Intel instance shows higher performance in CPU and memory operations, evidenced by superior Redis throughput and lower latency across a variety of Redis commands. It also excels in MySQL operations, providing quicker response times and lower latency for bulk inserts, OLTP operations, and point selects. In contrast, the Vultr High Performance AMD instance has better clock speed but slightly lower overall throughput and higher latency in Redis, MySQL, and general CPU operations. Therefore, the DigitalOcean instance is more suited for workloads that are CPU-intensive or require high memory throughput and low latency, such as high-demand web applications and databases, whereas the Vultr instance may be preferable for less demanding scenarios where cost is a significant factor.
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