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Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (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). Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:06:02 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:47 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 Intel (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)

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

CPU

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS) Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,593.91 2,992.91
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 5,187.82 5,985.82
Events per Second 929.36 1,085.49
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.95 0.87
Average Latency (ms) 1.07 0.92
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.29 1.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.39 1.04

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,441,276.65 5,287,233.83
Mebibytes per second 3,360.62 5,163.31
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.05 0.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,505,662.23 5,446,064.29
Mebibytes per second 3,423.50 5,318.42
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.71 0.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second 2,556.83 3,945.14
Writes per Second 1,704.52 2,630.10
Fsyncs per Second 5,461.18 8,418.81
Read Mebibytes per Second 39.95 61.64
Written Mebibytes per Second 26.63 41.10
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 36.01 2.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.24 0.2

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,783.52 1,674.69
Average Latency (ms) 1,799.40 1,689.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,810.68 1,697.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,803.47 1,708.63

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,535.00 9,332.00
Queries per second 55,350.00 93,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.57 0.93
Average Latency (ms) 1.8 1.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.09 15.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.07 1.32

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,739.00 11,031.00
Queries per second 57,390.00 110,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.19 0.69
Average Latency (ms) 1.74 0.9
Maximum Latency (ms) 29.45 11.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.35 1.23

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,265.00 4,749.00
Queries per second 22,650.00 47,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.24 1.79
Average Latency (ms) 4.41 2.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 30.01 7.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.67 2.57

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,053.00 18,923.00
Queries per second 110,530.00 189,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.9 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.38 10.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 0.68

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 701,975.00 1,375,842.00
Queries per second 7,019,750.00 13,758,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 625.32 345.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 152,246.00 263,886.00
Queries per second 1,522,460.00 2,638,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.38 2.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,020.00 6,167.00
Queries per second 30,200.00 61,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.76 0.53
Average Latency (ms) 3.31 1.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.79 6.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.33 2.11

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,424.00 8,650.00
Queries per second 24,240.00 86,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.46 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 4.12 1.15
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.2 3.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.47 1.52

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 10,298.00 18,825.00
Queries per second 102,980.00 188,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.64 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.97 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 20.63 5.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.39 0.69

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 10,146.00 19,241.00
Queries per second 101,460.00 192,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.98 0.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.18 4.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 0.65

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 87,018.00 200,203.00
Queries per second 870,180.00 2,002,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.11 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 112.3 3.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.23 0.08

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 31,908.10 70,472.16
PING_MBULK per Second 33,014.20 75,187.97
SET per Second 32,237.27 73,909.83
GET per Second 32,404.41 69,156.30
INCR per Second 33,300.03 59,952.04
LPUSH per Second 32,722.51 52,576.24
RPUSH per Second 32,404.41 68,634.18
LPOP per Second 32,206.12 59,171.59
RPOP per Second 35,063.11 53,219.80
SADD per Second 34,746.35 67,430.88
HSET per Second 35,001.75 63,734.86
SPOP per Second 35,701.54 43,859.65
ZADD per Second 34,602.07 43,365.13
ZPOPMIN per Second 33,898.30 49,285.36
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 16,764.46 36,982.25
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 7,578.63 19,992.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 4,631.56 12,827.09
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 4,000.80 10,901.56
MSET (10 keys) per Second 25,297.24 64,350.06

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.960.45
PING_MBULK0.920.42
SET0.970.44
GET0.950.46
INCR0.940.53
LPUSH0.950.61
RPUSH0.960.47
LPOP0.970.55
RPOP0.900.62
SADD0.890.47
HSET0.900.51
SPOP0.870.72
ZADD0.910.75
ZPOPMIN0.910.64
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.840.90
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)3.871.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)6.032.58
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)6.912.88
MSET (10 keys)1.530.61

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Performance Intel (1 GB) instance from Vultr performs significantly better across most benchmarks compared to the Cloud Compute (2 GB) instance, particularly in CPU performance and Redis operations where it achieves higher requests per second (e.g., Redis SET rps: 73909.83 vs 32237.27) and lower latencies. The High Performance instance also excels in MySQL bulk inserts with a higher throughput (tps: 133394.61 vs 68808.93). Therefore, the High Performance Intel (1 GB) instance is recommended for CPU-intensive and high-throughput use cases, despite having less RAM.

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