DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB)
New day, new benchmarks. Today I've got brand new instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:31:21 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:36 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-27-generic
7.0.0-27-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version
8.0.5
8.0.5
Location
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
$12.00
$12.00
RAM (GB)
2
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
50
50
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
2
3
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Regular
AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,494.14
2,899.98
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
1,024.00
BogoMips
4,988.28
5,799.96
Events per Second
411.59
4,293.15
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.99
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
2.42
0.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.9
2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.96
0.24
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,123,717.02
7,457,004.06
Mebibytes per second
4,027.07
7,282.23
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.54
2.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,007,053.05
7,502,263.36
Mebibytes per second
3,913.14
7,326.43
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.82
0.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second
2,758.95
3,916.21
Writes per Second
1,839.23
2,610.81
Fsyncs per Second
5,895.77
8,364.68
Read Mebibytes per Second
43.11
61.19
Written Mebibytes per Second
28.74
40.79
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.81
5.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.3
0.19
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,498.24
1,237.81
Average Latency (ms)
2,546.75
1,242.33
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,562.19
1,247.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,585.31
1,258.08
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,626.00
14,686.00
Queries per second
56,260.00
146,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.18
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
1.77
0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.44
4.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.39
0.72
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,813.00
12,995.00
Queries per second
48,130.00
129,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.92
0.63
Average Latency (ms)
2.07
0.77
Maximum Latency (ms)
29.26
7.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
0.89
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,931.00
6,399.00
Queries per second
19,310.00
63,990.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.94
1.38
Average Latency (ms)
5.17
1.56
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.66
12.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
7.17
1.73
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,585.00
20,372.00
Queries per second
65,850.00
203,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.56
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
1.51
0.49
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.88
2.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.71
0.58
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
833,039.00
2,482,592.00
Queries per second
8,330,390.00
24,825,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
568.39
190.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
148,439.00
387,870.00
Queries per second
1,484,390.00
3,878,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.95
0.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.1
0.03
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,505.00
11,757.00
Queries per second
35,050.00
117,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.98
0.24
Average Latency (ms)
2.85
0.85
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.79
3.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.25
1.08
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,769.00
14,693.00
Queries per second
57,690.00
146,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.53
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
1.73
0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.73
1.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
0.87
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,299.00
19,964.00
Queries per second
62,990.00
199,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
1.58
0.5
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.52
13.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.07
0.59
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,198.00
20,341.00
Queries per second
71,980.00
203,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.51
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
1.39
0.49
Maximum Latency (ms)
167.69
3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
0.58
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
33,426.00
267,422.00
Queries per second
334,260.00
2,674,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.3
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.19
7.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.61
0.05
Redis
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
34,188.04
48,756.70
PING_MBULK per Second
44,483.99
48,402.71
SET per Second
40,112.31
49,164.21
GET per Second
40,883.07
49,091.80
INCR per Second
39,729.84
49,091.80
LPUSH per Second
40,404.04
48,923.68
RPUSH per Second
37,397.16
48,828.12
LPOP per Second
37,257.82
48,947.62
RPOP per Second
36,114.12
48,804.29
SADD per Second
37,425.15
48,971.59
HSET per Second
38,759.69
49,140.05
SPOP per Second
45,641.26
48,685.49
ZADD per Second
42,283.30
48,661.80
ZPOPMIN per Second
47,438.33
48,875.86
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
23,089.36
38,491.14
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
12,169.89
25,568.91
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
8,394.19
18,345.26
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
6,932.89
16,567.26
MSET (10 keys) per Second
31,796.50
48,426.15
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.94
0.63
PING_MBULK
0.69
0.62
SET
0.77
0.64
GET
0.75
0.63
INCR
0.78
0.63
LPUSH
0.78
0.63
RPUSH
0.84
0.63
LPOP
0.85
0.64
RPOP
0.87
0.64
SADD
0.83
0.63
HSET
0.81
0.63
SPOP
0.68
0.63
ZADD
0.74
0.64
ZPOPMIN
0.65
0.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.40
0.82
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.63
1.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.62
1.65
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.24
1.90
MSET (10 keys)
1.06
0.69
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Vultr High Performance AMD instance outperforms the DigitalOcean Regular instance in both CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy benchmarks. Notably, Vultr’s "SET" operation reaches 49164.21 requests per second (rps) compared to DigitalOcean’s 40112.31 rps, highlighting superior CPU performance. Additionally, Vultr’s bulk insert rate for MySQL is significantly higher at 247121.35 transactions per second (tps), while DigitalOcean’s is 82488.07 tps. For I/O tasks, Vultr's read throughput per second is 61.19 MiB compared to DigitalOcean’s 43.11 MiB. This instance is ideal for CPU-intensive and high-throughput applications requiring low latency.
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