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Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB)

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Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:37 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:38:07 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 Newark, NJ Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $5.00 $6.00
RAM (GB) 1 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 25
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS) AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,394.45 2,900.01
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 512.00
BogoMips 4,788.90 5,800.01
Events per Second 704.30 4,263.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.23 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.42 0.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.04 4.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.73 0.25

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,595,908.88 7,394,314.05
Mebibytes per second 3,511.63 7,221.01
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.61 2.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,455,305.83 7,435,901.40
Mebibytes per second 3,374.32 7,261.62
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.29 0.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Reads per Second 1,878.82 4,898.86
Writes per Second 1,252.51 3,265.91
Fsyncs per Second 4,014.75 10,451.60
Read Mebibytes per Second 29.36 76.54
Written Mebibytes per Second 19.57 51.03
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.14 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.08 2.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.4 0.12

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,084.67 1,293.74
Average Latency (ms) 2,093.52 1,300.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,098.38 1,307.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,082.91 1,304.21

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,684.00 13,568.00
Queries per second 46,840.00 135,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.71 0.66
Average Latency (ms) 2.13 0.74
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.23 3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.02 0.95

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,785.00 12,148.00
Queries per second 37,850.00 121,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.46 0.62
Average Latency (ms) 2.64 0.82
Maximum Latency (ms) 33.7 10.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.82 1.01

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,104.00 6,113.00
Queries per second 21,040.00 61,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.41 1.41
Average Latency (ms) 4.75 1.63
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.72 6.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.91 1.89

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,970.00 19,984.00
Queries per second 79,700.00 199,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.8 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 1.25 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.57 3.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.7 0.6

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 734,741.00 2,278,717.00
Queries per second 7,347,410.00 22,787,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 700.22 246.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 107,531.00 365,463.00
Queries per second 1,075,310.00 3,654,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.82 0.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.13 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,796.00 11,124.00
Queries per second 37,960.00 111,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.93 0.3
Average Latency (ms) 2.63 0.9
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.47 6.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.82 1.16

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,117.00 14,369.00
Queries per second 51,170.00 143,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.18
Average Latency (ms) 1.95 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.04 1.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 0.9

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,164.00 19,115.00
Queries per second 71,640.00 191,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.82 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 1.39 0.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 28.24 11.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 0.64

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,738.00 19,801.00
Queries per second 77,380.00 198,010.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.78 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 1.29 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.75 3.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.76 0.61

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 52,919.00 264,739.00
Queries per second 529,190.00 2,647,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.19 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.33 2.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.04 0.06

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 28,835.06 47,415.84
PING_MBULK per Second 30,778.70 47,303.69
SET per Second 28,918.45 47,281.32
GET per Second 28,669.72 46,728.97
INCR per Second 30,656.04 47,846.89
LPUSH per Second 30,911.90 48,076.93
RPUSH per Second 26,968.72 47,846.89
LPOP per Second 30,618.49 48,123.20
RPOP per Second 31,123.56 46,882.33
SADD per Second 30,358.23 47,984.64
HSET per Second 29,299.74 47,892.72
SPOP per Second 30,627.87 46,403.71
ZADD per Second 30,358.23 48,076.93
ZPOPMIN per Second 31,367.63 47,732.70
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 22,138.59 37,509.38
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 11,909.01 24,137.10
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 7,708.32 17,831.67
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,203.57 16,095.28
MSET (10 keys) per Second 30,312.21 47,460.84

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE1.040.66
PING_MBULK0.960.66
SET1.050.67
GET1.050.67
INCR0.980.65
LPUSH0.980.65
RPUSH1.150.66
LPOP1.000.66
RPOP0.980.68
SADD0.990.65
HSET1.030.66
SPOP0.970.67
ZADD1.000.66
ZPOPMIN0.950.65
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.440.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.621.33
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.841.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.051.94
MSET (10 keys)1.070.71

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Performance AMD instance from Vultr outperforms the Cloud Compute instance, especially in CPU benchmarks with the AMD EPYC-Milan Processor delivering higher events per second (4263 vs. 704) and lower latency (avg 0.23 ms vs. 1.42 ms). While both instances show similar Redis throughput and file I/O performance, the AMD instance clearly excels in CPU-heavy tasks, making it a better choice for CPU-intensive applications while the Cloud Compute instance remains cost-effective for scenarios requiring less computational power.

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