Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with 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 Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT
Thu, 21 May 2026 21:00:52 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 Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
GenuineIntel
Model Name
Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,593.90
2,893.20
CPU Cache Size (KB)
16,384.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
5,187.80
5,786.40
Events per Second
1,100.82
1,188.12
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.88
0.83
Average Latency (ms)
0.91
0.84
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.56
1.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.97
0.84
Memory
Memory Read
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second
3,685,781.23
5,488,739.39
Mebibytes per second
3,599.40
5,360.10
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.03
1.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second
3,590,629.63
5,476,832.15
Mebibytes per second
3,506.47
5,348.47
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.16
0.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second
4,999.39
11,356.92
Writes per Second
3,332.93
7,571.28
Fsyncs per Second
10,670.47
24,229.99
Read Mebibytes per Second
78.12
177.45
Written Mebibytes per Second
52.08
118.30
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.05
0.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
37.52
0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.18
0.07
Mutex
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)
369.37
184.32
Average Latency (ms)
416.22
334.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
441.77
406.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
442.73
404.61
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,144.00
8,615.00
Queries per second
51,440.00
86,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.72
1.08
Average Latency (ms)
1.94
1.16
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.67
2.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
1.25
MySQL Write-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,108.00
10,528.00
Queries per second
51,080.00
105,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.15
0.73
Average Latency (ms)
1.96
0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.52
2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.71
1.08
MySQL Read/Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
2,247.00
4,639.00
Queries per second
22,470.00
46,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.08
1.83
Average Latency (ms)
4.45
2.15
Maximum Latency (ms)
29.7
10.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.28
2.35
MySQL INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
7,630.00
19,592.00
Queries per second
76,300.00
195,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.71
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.31
0.51
Maximum Latency (ms)
29.81
2.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.55
0.62
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
898,571.00
2,016,592.00
Queries per second
8,985,710.00
20,165,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
505.86
247.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
149,465.00
215,731.00
Queries per second
1,494,650.00
2,157,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.22
0.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.09
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
4,249.00
9,075.00
Queries per second
42,490.00
90,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.83
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
2.35
1.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.6
3.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
1.39
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
2,637.00
8,402.00
Queries per second
26,370.00
84,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.94
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
3.79
1.19
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.3
3.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.09
1.55
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
7,166.00
18,961.00
Queries per second
71,660.00
189,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.7
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
1.39
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.84
1.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
0.65
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
7,661.00
19,302.00
Queries per second
76,610.00
193,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.7
0.38
Average Latency (ms)
1.3
0.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
33.97
1.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.58
0.62
MySQL DELETE
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second
69,690.00
161,576.00
Queries per second
696,900.00
1,615,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.14
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
27.73
3.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.87
0.08
Redis
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second
54,436.58
68,352.70
PING_MBULK per Second
48,828.12
70,571.62
SET per Second
51,572.98
70,323.48
GET per Second
48,239.27
69,492.70
INCR per Second
52,328.62
71,839.09
LPUSH per Second
45,454.54
72,254.34
RPUSH per Second
49,751.24
71,326.68
LPOP per Second
53,390.28
70,771.41
RPOP per Second
53,648.07
70,972.32
SADD per Second
48,285.85
69,832.40
HSET per Second
51,493.30
69,637.88
SPOP per Second
52,910.05
70,521.86
ZADD per Second
53,504.55
69,492.70
ZPOPMIN per Second
53,590.57
71,022.73
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
28,645.09
53,533.19
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
13,131.98
30,469.22
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
8,529.51
20,321.07
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,479.99
19,098.55
MSET (10 keys) per Second
49,212.60
71,839.09
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE
0.47
0.37
PING_MBULK
0.53
0.36
SET
0.50
0.37
GET
0.54
0.37
INCR
0.49
0.36
LPUSH
0.58
0.36
RPUSH
0.52
0.36
LPOP
0.49
0.36
RPOP
0.48
0.36
SADD
0.54
0.37
HSET
0.53
0.37
SPOP
0.49
0.36
ZADD
0.48
0.37
ZPOPMIN
0.48
0.36
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.91
0.48
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.94
0.85
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.00
1.26
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.43
1.47
MSET (10 keys)
0.77
0.36
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Vultr High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance benchmarks notably outperform the standard Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) in most metrics, demonstrating higher request rates per second across Redis commands and significantly faster file I/O operations. The High Performance variant shows stronger CPU and memory performance with lower latency and higher throughput, making it particularly suitable for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads, such as high-traffic web services and databases that require rapid data access and processing. The Cloud Compute instance, while still competent, falls behind in most benchmarks, making it a better choice for less demanding applications or when budget is a primary concern.
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