How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) is $6.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB NVMe of storage, and 1 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe of storage, and 4 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB)?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) has 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB NVMe of storage, and 1 TB of monthly transfer for $6.00/mo.

Vultr High Frequency Intel 1 GB ($6/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. 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 – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 30 May 2026 12:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 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	$6.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	1	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	32	60
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	1	4

CPU

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
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	1,546.10	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.62	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.65	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.56	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.74	0.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,548,382.97	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	7,371.47	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.24	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,119,813.26	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	6,952.94	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.15	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,315.27	5,114.79
Writes per Second	2,876.81	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	9,210.59	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	67.43	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	44.95	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.42	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.18	0.12

Mutex

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,097.72	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	1,103.69	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,109.05	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,109.09	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,280.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	102,800.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.9	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	0.97	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.51	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.06	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,640.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	96,400.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	1.04	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.17	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.32	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,205.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	42,050.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.76	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	2.38	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.16	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.13	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	17,283.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	172,830.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.58	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.55	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.77	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,841,842.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	18,418,420.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	261.29	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	221,775.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	2,217,750.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.29	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.06	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,706.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	107,060.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.31	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	0.93	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.42	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.18	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	11,049.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	110,490.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.28	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	0.9	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.07	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.16	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,798.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	157,980.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	0.63	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.97	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.86	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,941.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	159,410.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.39	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	0.63	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.15	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.84	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	142,642.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	1,426,420.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.9	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.1	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	54,259.36	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	54,764.51	57,903.88
SET per Second	54,259.36	57,703.40
GET per Second	51,786.64	57,703.40
INCR per Second	54,141.85	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	54,318.30	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	51,098.62	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	54,141.85	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	54,436.58	58,343.06
SADD per Second	55,218.11	58,241.12
HSET per Second	54,288.82	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	55,524.71	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	54,674.69	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	54,945.05	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	35,014.01	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	20,161.29	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	14,124.29	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	11,522.06	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	44,702.73	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.60	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.59	0.44
SET	0.60	0.45
GET	0.63	0.45
INCR	0.60	0.45
LPUSH	0.60	0.44
RPUSH	0.64	0.44
LPOP	0.60	0.44
RPOP	0.60	0.44
SADD	0.58	0.44
HSET	0.60	0.44
SPOP	0.58	0.44
ZADD	0.59	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.59	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.98	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.73	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.55	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.12	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.78	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) instance shows strong performance for Redis commands with high requests per second (rps) and relatively low latencies, making it ideal for applications that require high Redis throughput, such as cache servers or real-time data processing systems. On the other hand, the Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance provides better multi-core performance and is better suited for CPU-intensive workloads, such as large-scale web applications, database servers, or any task that benefits from parallel processing, despite slightly lower Redis rps and higher latencies in some benchmarks. The AMD instance also demonstrates better file I/O and memory performance, which could be advantageous for applications that require high I/O throughput and fast memory operations. Overall, the Intel instance is more cost-effective for memory- and Redis-heavy workloads, while the AMD instance excels in CPU-bound and multi-threaded tasks.

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Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)