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

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Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running 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 (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:06:02 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:02 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-29-generic 7.0.0-29-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version 8.0.5 8.0.5
Location Newark, NJ Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $10.00 $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.

CategoryWinner
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 (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS) AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,593.90 2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 512.00
BogoMips 5,187.80 5,800.00
Events per Second 811.02 4,236.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.96 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.23 0.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.71 2.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.61 0.26

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 2,932,814.92 7,367,539.15
Mebibytes per second 2,864.08 7,194.86
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.06 0.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 3,012,810.64 7,232,726.42
Mebibytes per second 2,942.20 7,063.21
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.18 0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second 1,720.67 4,910.99
Writes per Second 1,147.11 3,273.99
Fsyncs per Second 3,681.86 10,478.27
Read Mebibytes per Second 26.89 76.73
Written Mebibytes per Second 17.92 51.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.15 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.92 6.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.55 0.12

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,497.94 1,266.97
Average Latency (ms) 2,514.76 1,276.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,531.03 1,287.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,539.17 1,280.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,434.00 13,615.00
Queries per second 44,340.00 136,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.67 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 2.25 0.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.08 2.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.81 0.84

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,735.00 12,081.00
Queries per second 37,350.00 120,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.39 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 2.67 0.83
Maximum Latency (ms) 23.22 9.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.68 0.95

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,945.00 5,846.00
Queries per second 19,450.00 58,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.65 1.42
Average Latency (ms) 5.13 1.71
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.99 9.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.79 1.93

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,066.00 18,517.00
Queries per second 70,660.00 185,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.79 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 1.41 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.58 7.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.96 0.63

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 669,209.00 2,249,592.00
Queries per second 6,692,090.00 22,495,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.02 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 671.55 194.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 122,191.00 360,565.00
Queries per second 1,221,910.00 3,605,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.56 0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.12 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,672.00 11,291.00
Queries per second 26,720.00 112,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.31 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 3.74 0.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.71 2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.09 1.14

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,421.00 13,877.00
Queries per second 24,210.00 138,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.47 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 4.13 0.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.77 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.88 0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,495.00 18,476.00
Queries per second 64,950.00 184,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.8 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 1.54 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.08 11.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 0.64

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,851.00 18,856.00
Queries per second 68,510.00 188,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.75 0.44
Average Latency (ms) 1.46 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 14.81 7.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 0.61

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 45,040.00 235,558.00
Queries per second 450,400.00 2,355,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.22 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.88 6.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 0.07

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 27,419.80 46,490.00
PING_MBULK per Second 29,069.77 46,253.47
SET per Second 26,476.04 47,258.98
GET per Second 22,988.51 47,103.16
INCR per Second 23,618.33 47,415.84
LPUSH per Second 24,201.36 47,961.63
RPUSH per Second 25,252.53 47,573.74
LPOP per Second 25,568.91 45,766.59
RPOP per Second 25,227.04 47,869.79
SADD per Second 27,472.53 47,528.52
HSET per Second 25,207.96 47,460.84
SPOP per Second 28,320.59 46,360.68
ZADD per Second 26,838.43 47,869.79
ZPOPMIN per Second 27,824.15 47,619.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 14,322.54 37,693.18
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 7,071.64 23,980.81
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 4,639.51 17,208.74
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 4,115.40 16,358.58
MSET (10 keys) per Second 23,402.76 47,236.65

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE1.110.66
PING_MBULK1.040.65
SET1.160.66
GET1.320.66
INCR1.280.66
LPUSH1.270.66
RPUSH1.210.66
LPOP1.210.69
RPOP1.230.66
SADD1.120.65
HSET1.220.66
SPOP1.090.66
ZADD1.160.66
ZPOPMIN1.100.65
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)2.140.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)4.071.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)6.041.78
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)6.751.89
MSET (10 keys)1.580.71

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance AMD instance outperforms the Cloud Compute (2 GB) in overall performance, especially in CPU-intensive tasks where it records 42,361 events per second compared to 8,110 on the Cloud Compute, and in Redis benchmarks like SET and GET achieving 47,259 and 47,103 requests per second respectively, significantly higher than Cloud Compute's 26,476 and 22,988. For applications requiring high CPU throughput and low latency, such as compute-heavy workloads, the AMD EPYC-Milan Processor in the High Performance instance is the better choice.

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