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Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB)

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I've got brand new instances from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:06:02 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:10:32 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-28-generic 7.0.0-28-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 $10.00 $6.00
RAM (GB) 2 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 50 25
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 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 (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS) AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,593.91 2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 5,187.82 5,799.98
Events per Second 929.36 4,233.82
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.95 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.07 0.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.29 3.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.39 0.25

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,441,276.65 7,457,681.72
Mebibytes per second 3,360.62 7,282.89
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.05 0.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,505,662.23 7,424,120.81
Mebibytes per second 3,423.50 7,250.12
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.71 0.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Reads per Second 2,556.83 4,024.70
Writes per Second 1,704.52 2,683.07
Fsyncs per Second 5,461.18 8,597.97
Read Mebibytes per Second 39.95 62.89
Written Mebibytes per Second 26.63 41.92
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 36.01 4.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.24 0.19

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,783.52 1,234.88
Average Latency (ms) 1,799.40 1,242.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,810.68 1,247.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,803.47 1,258.08

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,535.00 13,940.00
Queries per second 55,350.00 139,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.57 0.66
Average Latency (ms) 1.8 0.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.09 9.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.07 0.84

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,739.00 12,785.00
Queries per second 57,390.00 127,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.19 0.61
Average Latency (ms) 1.74 0.78
Maximum Latency (ms) 29.45 7.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.35 0.94

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,265.00 6,195.00
Queries per second 22,650.00 61,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.24 1.37
Average Latency (ms) 4.41 1.61
Maximum Latency (ms) 30.01 7.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.67 1.96

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,053.00 19,096.00
Queries per second 110,530.00 190,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.9 0.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.38 5.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 0.61

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 701,975.00 2,366,092.00
Queries per second 7,019,750.00 23,660,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 625.32 308.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 152,246.00 387,291.00
Queries per second 1,522,460.00 3,872,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.38 1.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,020.00 11,571.00
Queries per second 30,200.00 115,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.76 0.29
Average Latency (ms) 3.31 0.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.79 3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.33 1.1

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,424.00 14,459.00
Queries per second 24,240.00 144,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.46 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 4.12 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.2 2.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.47 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 10,298.00 19,878.00
Queries per second 102,980.00 198,780.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.64 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.97 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 20.63 10.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.39 0.61

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 10,146.00 19,848.00
Queries per second 101,460.00 198,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.98 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.18 3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 0.59

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 87,018.00 269,641.00
Queries per second 870,180.00 2,696,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.11 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 112.3 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.23 0.06

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 31,908.10 48,262.55
PING_MBULK per Second 33,014.20 48,590.86
SET per Second 32,237.27 48,309.18
GET per Second 32,404.41 48,146.37
INCR per Second 33,300.03 47,687.18
LPUSH per Second 32,722.51 49,164.21
RPUSH per Second 32,404.41 48,379.30
LPOP per Second 32,206.12 49,407.12
RPOP per Second 35,063.11 49,627.79
SADD per Second 34,746.35 48,520.13
HSET per Second 35,001.75 48,239.27
SPOP per Second 35,701.54 48,169.56
ZADD per Second 34,602.07 48,875.86
ZPOPMIN per Second 33,898.30 49,115.91
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 16,764.46 37,993.92
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 7,578.63 24,746.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 4,631.56 18,086.45
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 4,000.80 16,278.69
MSET (10 keys) per Second 25,297.24 48,947.62

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.960.65
PING_MBULK0.920.63
SET0.970.65
GET0.950.65
INCR0.940.66
LPUSH0.950.64
RPUSH0.960.65
LPOP0.970.64
RPOP0.900.64
SADD0.890.65
HSET0.900.66
SPOP0.870.64
ZADD0.910.65
ZPOPMIN0.910.64
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.840.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)3.871.31
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)6.031.68
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)6.911.91
MSET (10 keys)1.530.69

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Based on the benchmark results, the Vultr High Performance AMD instance with 1GB RAM and 1 CPU outperforms the Cloud Compute (2 GB) instance in terms of both CPU and memory operations, especially evident in Redis benchmarks where the AMD instance delivers higher requests per second and lower latencies, and in MySQL bulk inserts where the AMD instance shows significantly higher throughput. For use cases requiring intensive memory operations or high CPU performance, the AMD instance is clearly superior.

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