Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up brand new instance from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 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 (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Last Benchmarked | Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT | Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:52 GMT |
| Linux Distro | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 |
| Kernel Version | 6.8.0-117-generic | 6.8.0-117-generic |
| MySQL Version | 8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 | 8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 |
| Redis Version | 7.0.15 | 7.0.15 |
| Location | Newark, NJ | Newark, NJ |
| Monthly Price | $40.00 | $48.00 |
| RAM (GB) | 8 | 8 |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Storage (TB) | 160 | 180 |
| Storage Type | SSD | NVMe |
| Transfer (TB) | 4 | 6 |
CPU
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | GenuineIntel | AuthenticAMD |
| Model Name | Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS) | AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor |
| Clock Speed (MHz) | 2,593.90 | 2,900.00 |
| CPU Cache Size (KB) | 16,384.00 | 1,024.00 |
| BogoMips | 5,187.80 | 5,799.99 |
| Events per Second | 1,100.82 | 4,652.96 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.88 | 0.21 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.91 | 0.21 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 1.56 | 1.06 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.97 | 0.23 |
Memory
Memory Read
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 3,685,781.23 | 7,519,736.74 |
| Mebibytes per second | 3,599.40 | 7,343.49 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 1.03 | 0.58 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
Memory Write
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operations per second | 3,590,629.63 | 7,542,605.85 |
| Mebibytes per second | 3,506.47 | 7,365.83 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 1.16 | 0.09 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
File I/O
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads per Second | 4,999.39 | 8,647.26 |
| Writes per Second | 3,332.93 | 5,764.84 |
| Fsyncs per Second | 10,670.47 | 18,460.27 |
| Read Mebibytes per Second | 78.12 | 135.11 |
| Written Mebibytes per Second | 52.08 | 90.08 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.05 | 0.03 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 37.52 | 0.86 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.18 | 0.1 |
Mutex
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 369.37 | 147.68 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 416.22 | 286.09 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 441.77 | 351.77 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 442.73 | 350.33 |
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 5,144.00 | 9,759.00 |
| Queries per second | 51,440.00 | 97,590.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.72 | 0.77 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.94 | 1.02 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 7.67 | 1.65 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.35 | 1.12 |
MySQL Write-only
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 5,108.00 | 9,124.00 |
| Queries per second | 51,080.00 | 91,240.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 1.15 | 0.81 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.96 | 1.1 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 12.52 | 2.24 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 2.71 | 1.25 |
MySQL Read/Write
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 2,247.00 | 4,641.00 |
| Queries per second | 22,470.00 | 46,410.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 3.08 | 1.56 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 4.45 | 2.15 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 29.7 | 12.5 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 5.28 | 2.43 |
MySQL INSERT
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 7,630.00 | 14,965.00 |
| Queries per second | 76,300.00 | 149,650.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.71 | 0.45 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.31 | 0.67 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 29.81 | 2.19 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.55 | 0.81 |
MySQL Bulk INSERT
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 898,571.00 | 3,094,217.00 |
| Queries per second | 8,985,710.00 | 30,942,170.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.01 | 0 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 505.86 | 200.94 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0 | 0 |
MySQL SELECT
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 149,465.00 | 217,418.00 |
| Queries per second | 1,494,650.00 | 2,174,180.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.05 | 0.02 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.07 | 0.05 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 1.22 | 0.6 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.09 | 0.06 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 4,249.00 | 14,725.00 |
| Queries per second | 42,490.00 | 147,250.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.83 | 0.27 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 2.35 | 0.68 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 6.6 | 1.97 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 3.02 | 0.87 |
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 2,637.00 | 14,421.00 |
| Queries per second | 26,370.00 | 144,210.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.94 | 0.12 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 3.79 | 0.69 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 6.3 | 1.64 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 5.09 | 0.89 |
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 7,166.00 | 14,002.00 |
| Queries per second | 71,660.00 | 140,020.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.7 | 0.47 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.39 | 0.71 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 28.84 | 1.96 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.79 | 0.87 |
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 7,661.00 | 14,370.00 |
| Queries per second | 76,610.00 | 143,700.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.7 | 0.48 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 1.3 | 0.7 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 33.97 | 1.87 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 1.58 | 0.84 |
MySQL DELETE
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 69,690.00 | 146,476.00 |
| Queries per second | 696,900.00 | 1,464,760.00 |
| Minimum Latency (ms) | 0.05 | 0.02 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 0.14 | 0.07 |
| Maximum Latency (ms) | 27.73 | 6.67 |
| 95th Percentile Latency (ms) | 0.87 | 0.08 |
Redis
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE per Second | 54,436.58 | 58,892.82 |
| PING_MBULK per Second | 48,828.12 | 60,313.63 |
| SET per Second | 51,572.98 | 59,665.87 |
| GET per Second | 48,239.27 | 58,927.52 |
| INCR per Second | 52,328.62 | 59,594.76 |
| LPUSH per Second | 45,454.54 | 63,694.27 |
| RPUSH per Second | 49,751.24 | 59,594.76 |
| LPOP per Second | 53,390.28 | 58,513.75 |
| RPOP per Second | 53,648.07 | 58,651.02 |
| SADD per Second | 48,285.85 | 59,031.88 |
| HSET per Second | 51,493.30 | 64,350.06 |
| SPOP per Second | 52,910.05 | 59,276.82 |
| ZADD per Second | 53,504.55 | 60,350.03 |
| ZPOPMIN per Second | 53,590.57 | 58,651.02 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second | 28,645.09 | 49,875.31 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second | 13,131.98 | 34,952.81 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second | 8,529.51 | 26,990.55 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second | 7,479.99 | 23,758.61 |
| MSET (10 keys) per Second | 49,212.60 | 59,630.29 |
Redis Average Latency (ms)
| Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) | Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) | |
|---|---|---|
| PING_INLINE | 0.47 | 0.44 |
| PING_MBULK | 0.53 | 0.43 |
| SET | 0.50 | 0.43 |
| GET | 0.54 | 0.44 |
| INCR | 0.49 | 0.43 |
| LPUSH | 0.58 | 0.40 |
| RPUSH | 0.52 | 0.43 |
| LPOP | 0.49 | 0.44 |
| RPOP | 0.48 | 0.44 |
| SADD | 0.54 | 0.44 |
| HSET | 0.53 | 0.40 |
| SPOP | 0.49 | 0.43 |
| ZADD | 0.48 | 0.43 |
| ZPOPMIN | 0.48 | 0.44 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) | 0.91 | 0.52 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) | 1.94 | 0.73 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) | 3.00 | 0.94 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) | 3.43 | 1.08 |
| MSET (10 keys) | 0.77 | 0.43 |
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
After thorough comparison of both instances, it is evident that Vultr's High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) excels in overall performance, especially in CPU-intensive tasks, as reflected by significantly higher RPS (requests per second) rates across most Redis benchmarks, better CPU event handling, and superior file I/O operations. The AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor showcases remarkable speed, evidenced by lower latencies and higher throughput. Conversely, Vultr's Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) with its Intel Xeon Processor provides stable performance but lags behind in certain benchmarks due to lower RPS and CPU latency, though it still maintains robust memory handling and a balanced approach to various tasks. For CPU-intensive workloads and where higher performance is critical, the High Performance AMD instance is the superior choice. For scenarios where cost is a primary concern, and balanced performance across different types of operations is required, the Cloud Compute instance offers a viable alternative.
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