Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've got brand new instances from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was 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 – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:07:32 GMT
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:10:32 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
$6.00
$6.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
32
25
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
3,792.05
2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB)
16,384.00
1,024.00
BogoMips
7,584.09
5,799.98
Events per Second
1,418.80
4,233.82
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.67
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
0.7
0.24
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.97
3.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.74
0.25
Memory
Memory Read
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second
7,260,754.36
7,457,681.72
Mebibytes per second
7,090.58
7,282.89
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.81
0.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second
7,520,415.11
7,424,120.81
Mebibytes per second
7,344.16
7,250.12
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.36
0.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Reads per Second
4,675.97
4,024.70
Writes per Second
3,117.32
2,683.07
Fsyncs per Second
9,977.97
8,597.97
Read Mebibytes per Second
73.06
62.89
Written Mebibytes per Second
48.71
41.92
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.47
4.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.16
0.19
Mutex
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,149.56
1,234.88
Average Latency (ms)
1,155.82
1,242.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,161.84
1,247.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,170.65
1,258.08
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
10,055.00
13,940.00
Queries per second
100,550.00
139,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.89
0.66
Average Latency (ms)
0.99
0.72
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.72
9.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.16
0.84
MySQL Write-only
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
12,149.00
12,785.00
Queries per second
121,490.00
127,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.64
0.61
Average Latency (ms)
0.82
0.78
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.53
7.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.03
0.94
MySQL Read/Write
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,295.00
6,195.00
Queries per second
42,950.00
61,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.71
1.37
Average Latency (ms)
2.33
1.61
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.32
7.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.76
1.96
MySQL INSERT
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
21,088.00
19,096.00
Queries per second
210,880.00
190,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.37
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
0.47
0.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.56
5.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.62
0.61
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,783,592.00
2,366,092.00
Queries per second
17,835,920.00
23,660,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
439.57
308.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
224,934.00
387,291.00
Queries per second
2,249,340.00
3,872,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.04
0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.18
1.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.06
0.04
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,840.00
11,571.00
Queries per second
78,400.00
115,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.48
0.29
Average Latency (ms)
1.27
0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.92
3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.67
1.1
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
10,489.00
14,459.00
Queries per second
104,890.00
144,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.3
0.22
Average Latency (ms)
0.95
0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.87
2.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.3
0.89
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
20,766.00
19,878.00
Queries per second
207,660.00
198,780.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.37
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
0.48
0.5
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.23
10.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.62
0.61
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
21,906.00
19,848.00
Queries per second
219,060.00
198,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.37
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
0.46
0.5
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.93
3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.55
0.59
MySQL DELETE
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
164,853.00
269,641.00
Queries per second
1,648,530.00
2,696,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.02
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.54
1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.09
0.06
Redis
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
52,246.60
48,262.55
PING_MBULK per Second
52,826.20
48,590.86
SET per Second
52,083.34
48,309.18
GET per Second
53,134.96
48,146.37
INCR per Second
52,603.89
47,687.18
LPUSH per Second
51,652.89
49,164.21
RPUSH per Second
51,282.05
48,379.30
LPOP per Second
50,684.23
49,407.12
RPOP per Second
51,361.07
49,627.79
SADD per Second
51,413.88
48,520.13
HSET per Second
51,308.36
48,239.27
SPOP per Second
51,948.05
48,169.56
ZADD per Second
50,787.20
48,875.86
ZPOPMIN per Second
51,124.75
49,115.91
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
35,650.62
37,993.92
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
21,385.80
24,746.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
15,246.23
18,086.45
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
13,271.40
16,278.69
MSET (10 keys) per Second
49,603.17
48,947.62
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.58
0.65
PING_MBULK
0.58
0.63
SET
0.59
0.65
GET
0.58
0.65
INCR
0.58
0.66
LPUSH
0.59
0.64
RPUSH
0.59
0.65
LPOP
0.61
0.64
RPOP
0.60
0.64
SADD
0.59
0.65
HSET
0.59
0.66
SPOP
0.58
0.64
ZADD
0.60
0.65
ZPOPMIN
0.59
0.64
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.87
0.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.51
1.31
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.11
1.68
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
2.47
1.91
MSET (10 keys)
0.66
0.69
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Vultr High Frequency Intel instance clearly outperforms the High Performance AMD instance in most benchmarks, particularly in Redis performance with higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies. The Intel setup achieves a higher RPS across various Redis operations and consistently lower latencies, such as 52246.6 rps for PING_INLINE versus 48262.55 rps for the AMD instance. For CPU operations, the Intel instance also leads with 1418.8 events per second against the AMD’s 4233.82. For use-case scenarios, the Intel server is better suited for CPU-heavy tasks and applications requiring high throughput and low latency.
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