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Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:07:32 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:09:02 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 $6.00 $12.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 32 64
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Tie
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) takes 3 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX) Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,792.05 3,792.05
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 7,584.09 7,584.10
Events per Second 1,436.31 1,433.50
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.3 3.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.74 0.73

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,256,990.82 6,381,196.95
Mebibytes per second 7,086.91 6,231.64
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.25 0.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,404,343.90 7,590,256.83
Mebibytes per second 7,230.80 7,412.36
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.55 0.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 4,611.83 4,797.61
Writes per Second 3,074.55 3,198.41
Fsyncs per Second 9,847.36 10,240.61
Read Mebibytes per Second 72.06 74.96
Written Mebibytes per Second 48.04 49.98
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.14 19.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.15 0.15

Mutex

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,126.89 1,120.95
Average Latency (ms) 1,134.74 1,127.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,139.62 1,132.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,149.76 1,129.24

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,766.00 10,238.00
Queries per second 97,660.00 102,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.94 0.9
Average Latency (ms) 1.02 0.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.44 2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 1.06

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 12,445.00 12,564.00
Queries per second 124,450.00 125,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.62 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 0.8 0.79
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.27 8.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.08 0.97

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,049.00 5,279.00
Queries per second 50,490.00 52,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.67 1.64
Average Latency (ms) 1.98 1.89
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.4 4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.43 2.22

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 21,580.00 22,126.00
Queries per second 215,800.00 221,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.36 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 0.46 0.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.92 2.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.56 0.53

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,900,092.00 1,958,342.00
Queries per second 19,000,920.00 19,583,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 240.35 207.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 210,450.00 216,335.00
Queries per second 2,104,500.00 2,163,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.97 1.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 8,142.00 8,316.00
Queries per second 81,420.00 83,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 1.23 1.2
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.35 3.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.86 1.55

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,378.00 11,393.00
Queries per second 113,780.00 113,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.29 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 0.88 0.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.18 2.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 1.12

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 21,383.00 20,610.00
Queries per second 213,830.00 206,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.36
Average Latency (ms) 0.47 0.48
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.39 4.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.62 0.65

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 21,598.00 22,150.00
Queries per second 215,980.00 221,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.36 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 0.46 0.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.24 9.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.62 0.54

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 156,197.00 162,113.00
Queries per second 1,561,970.00 1,621,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.53 4.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.09

Redis

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 51,098.62 50,327.12
PING_MBULK per Second 50,890.59 52,002.08
SET per Second 50,632.91 52,966.10
GET per Second 50,813.01 53,022.27
INCR per Second 50,632.91 53,219.80
LPUSH per Second 50,942.43 52,273.91
RPUSH per Second 51,020.41 52,056.22
LPOP per Second 51,229.51 51,679.59
RPOP per Second 51,493.30 50,890.59
SADD per Second 51,840.33 49,603.17
HSET per Second 52,301.26 51,466.80
SPOP per Second 52,410.90 53,134.96
ZADD per Second 51,921.08 51,948.05
ZPOPMIN per Second 51,948.05 52,742.62
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 35,410.77 36,832.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 20,881.19 22,041.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 15,010.51 15,622.56
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 12,975.22 13,980.15
MSET (10 keys) per Second 49,701.79 50,025.02

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.600.61
PING_MBULK0.590.58
SET0.600.59
GET0.600.58
INCR0.600.59
LPUSH0.600.60
RPUSH0.600.60
LPOP0.600.60
RPOP0.600.61
SADD0.590.62
HSET0.590.60
SPOP0.590.58
ZADD0.600.60
ZPOPMIN0.590.59
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.890.85
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.541.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.162.02
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.422.37
MSET (10 keys)0.660.66

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Frequency Intel (2 GB) instance benchmarks outperform the High Frequency Intel (1 GB) in most metrics, especially in Redis SET operations with a higher rate of 52966.1 requests per second compared to 50632.9, and MySQL bulk insert transactions with a higher throughput of 195682.1 TPS against 188840.7 TPS. The 2 GB instance provides better overall performance, making it a better choice for CPU-heavy or memory-intensive applications where additional RAM can contribute to performance gains.

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