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

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running 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 – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Sun, 31 May 2026 08:00:52 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 $18.00 $18.00
RAM (GB) 2 2
CPU Cores 2 2
Storage (TB) 60 60
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 3 4

CPU

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name DO-Regular 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 813.64 4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 0.2
Average Latency (ms) 1.23 0.21
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.88 1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.44 0.23

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 3,863,161.54 7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second 3,772.62 7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.47 0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 3,937,174.33 7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second 3,844.90 7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.03 0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 1,604.65 5,114.79
Writes per Second 1,069.77 3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second 3,429.94 10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second 25.07 79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second 16.72 53.28
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.16 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.88 3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.4 0.12

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,275.46 574.03
Average Latency (ms) 1,454.38 637.47
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,488.79 663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,479.41 657.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 1,594.00 9,622.00
Queries per second 15,940.00 96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.68 0.73
Average Latency (ms) 6.27 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 87.36 2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 24.38 1.12

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 1,576.00 9,585.00
Queries per second 15,760.00 95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2 0.8
Average Latency (ms) 6.34 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 34.54 2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 14.46 1.32

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 582.00 4,686.00
Queries per second 5,820.00 46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.92 1.57
Average Latency (ms) 17.17 2.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 125.99 4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 47.47 2.52

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,759.00 15,965.00
Queries per second 27,590.00 159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.36 0.45
Average Latency (ms) 3.62 0.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 34.11 2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 7.04 0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) 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) 459.02 208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 54,163.00 217,035.00
Queries per second 541,630.00 2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.18 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 23.62 0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.43 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 3,859.00 14,818.00
Queries per second 38,590.00 148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.61 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 2.59 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 53.87 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.55 0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 7,179.00 14,341.00
Queries per second 71,790.00 143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.27
Average Latency (ms) 1.39 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.44 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.86 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,435.00 14,864.00
Queries per second 24,350.00 148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.15 0.47
Average Latency (ms) 4.1 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 52.68 2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 8.9 0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,495.00 15,284.00
Queries per second 24,950.00 152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.37 0.46
Average Latency (ms) 4 0.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.4 1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 8.9 0.83

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 13,719.00 151,536.00
Queries per second 137,190.00 1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.73 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 38.65 4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.25 0.08

Redis

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 78,740.16 55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second 77,821.02 57,903.88
SET per Second 75,815.01 57,703.40
GET per Second 75,414.78 57,703.40
INCR per Second 76,628.36 57,372.34
LPUSH per Second 76,511.09 57,836.90
RPUSH per Second 79,617.83 58,173.36
LPOP per Second 79,808.46 58,343.06
RPOP per Second 74,074.07 58,343.06
SADD per Second 77,101.00 58,241.12
HSET per Second 74,294.21 58,858.15
SPOP per Second 72,358.90 58,892.82
ZADD per Second 78,616.35 57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second 73,800.73 57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 53,705.69 49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 27,218.29 34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 18,573.55 26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 16,578.25 24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second 73,206.44 58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.330.48
PING_MBULK0.330.44
SET0.350.45
GET0.340.45
INCR0.410.45
LPUSH0.340.44
RPUSH0.330.44
LPOP0.330.44
RPOP0.350.44
SADD0.340.44
HSET0.350.44
SPOP0.360.44
ZADD0.330.45
ZPOPMIN0.350.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.520.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.130.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.470.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.621.05
MSET (10 keys)0.360.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

When comparing the benchmark performance of DigitalOcean's Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) and Vultr's High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores), it's clear that Vultr's instance outperforms in most metrics, particularly in Redis operations where it achieves higher request rates per second and lower latencies for commands like LPUSH, RPUSH, LPOP, and RPOP. However, both instances are relatively close in CPU performance, though Vultr's AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor shows slightly better performance metrics. File I/O and memory operations also favor Vultr, with significantly higher throughput and lower latencies. Given these benchmarks, Vultr's High Performance AMD instance is better suited for workloads that benefit from higher throughput, lower latencies, and more efficient memory operations, such as high-traffic web services or data-intensive applications. Meanwhile, DigitalOcean's Regular instance might be more suitable for smaller, less demanding applications where the cost-benefit ratio is more important than raw performance.

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