Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.
Overview
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:37 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
Newark, NJ
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
$5.00
$12.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
50
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
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
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,394.45
2,899.98
CPU Cache Size (KB)
16,384.00
1,024.00
BogoMips
4,788.90
5,799.96
Events per Second
704.30
4,293.15
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.23
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.04
2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.73
0.24
Memory
Memory Read
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,595,908.88
7,457,004.06
Mebibytes per second
3,511.63
7,282.23
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.61
2.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,455,305.83
7,502,263.36
Mebibytes per second
3,374.32
7,326.43
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.29
0.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second
1,878.82
3,916.21
Writes per Second
1,252.51
2,610.81
Fsyncs per Second
4,014.75
8,364.68
Read Mebibytes per Second
29.36
61.19
Written Mebibytes per Second
19.57
40.79
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.14
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.08
5.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.4
0.19
Mutex
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,084.67
1,237.81
Average Latency (ms)
2,093.52
1,242.33
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,098.38
1,247.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,082.91
1,258.08
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,684.00
14,686.00
Queries per second
46,840.00
146,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.71
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
2.13
0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.23
4.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
0.72
MySQL Write-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,785.00
12,995.00
Queries per second
37,850.00
129,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.46
0.63
Average Latency (ms)
2.64
0.77
Maximum Latency (ms)
33.7
7.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.82
0.89
MySQL Read/Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,104.00
6,399.00
Queries per second
21,040.00
63,990.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.41
1.38
Average Latency (ms)
4.75
1.56
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.72
12.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.91
1.73
MySQL INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,970.00
20,372.00
Queries per second
79,700.00
203,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.8
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
1.25
0.49
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.57
2.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.7
0.58
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
734,741.00
2,482,592.00
Queries per second
7,347,410.00
24,825,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
700.22
190.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
107,531.00
387,870.00
Queries per second
1,075,310.00
3,878,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.82
0.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.13
0.03
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,796.00
11,757.00
Queries per second
37,960.00
117,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.93
0.24
Average Latency (ms)
2.63
0.85
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.47
3.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.82
1.08
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,117.00
14,693.00
Queries per second
51,170.00
146,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.67
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
1.95
0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.04
1.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
0.87
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,164.00
19,964.00
Queries per second
71,640.00
199,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.82
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
1.39
0.5
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.24
13.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
0.59
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,738.00
20,341.00
Queries per second
77,380.00
203,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.78
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
1.29
0.49
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.75
3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.76
0.58
MySQL DELETE
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second
52,919.00
267,422.00
Queries per second
529,190.00
2,674,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.19
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.33
7.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.04
0.05
Redis
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
28,835.06
48,756.70
PING_MBULK per Second
30,778.70
48,402.71
SET per Second
28,918.45
49,164.21
GET per Second
28,669.72
49,091.80
INCR per Second
30,656.04
49,091.80
LPUSH per Second
30,911.90
48,923.68
RPUSH per Second
26,968.72
48,828.12
LPOP per Second
30,618.49
48,947.62
RPOP per Second
31,123.56
48,804.29
SADD per Second
30,358.23
48,971.59
HSET per Second
29,299.74
49,140.05
SPOP per Second
30,627.87
48,685.49
ZADD per Second
30,358.23
48,661.80
ZPOPMIN per Second
31,367.63
48,875.86
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
22,138.59
38,491.14
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
11,909.01
25,568.91
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
7,708.32
18,345.26
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,203.57
16,567.26
MSET (10 keys) per Second
30,312.21
48,426.15
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
1.04
0.63
PING_MBULK
0.96
0.62
SET
1.05
0.64
GET
1.05
0.63
INCR
0.98
0.63
LPUSH
0.98
0.63
RPUSH
1.15
0.63
LPOP
1.00
0.64
RPOP
0.98
0.64
SADD
0.99
0.63
HSET
1.03
0.63
SPOP
0.97
0.63
ZADD
1.00
0.64
ZPOPMIN
0.95
0.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.44
0.82
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.62
1.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.84
1.65
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.05
1.90
MSET (10 keys)
1.07
0.69
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The High Performance AMD (2 GB) instance from Vultr outperforms the Cloud Compute (1 GB) in most benchmarks, especially in CPU operations with a higher events_per_second of 4293 vs 704, and in memory operations with higher throughput rates. The AMD instance also excels in database operations, achieving significantly higher TPS for bulk insert and OLTP tasks. The decisive factor is the substantially higher CPU performance, which is critical for CPU-intensive workloads, making the AMD instance the better choice for high-performance, compute-heavy applications, despite the Cloud Compute instance being more budget-friendly.
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