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

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Same showdown, different day. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:07:32 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:02 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 50
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 3

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

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

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX) AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,792.05 2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 512.00
BogoMips 7,584.09 5,800.00
Events per Second 1,436.31 4,236.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 0.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.3 2.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.74 0.26

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,256,990.82 7,367,539.15
Mebibytes per second 7,086.91 7,194.86
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.25 0.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,404,343.90 7,232,726.42
Mebibytes per second 7,230.80 7,063.21
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.55 0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second 4,611.83 4,910.99
Writes per Second 3,074.55 3,273.99
Fsyncs per Second 9,847.36 10,478.27
Read Mebibytes per Second 72.06 76.73
Written Mebibytes per Second 48.04 51.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.14 6.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.15 0.12

Mutex

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,126.89 1,266.97
Average Latency (ms) 1,134.74 1,276.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,139.62 1,287.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,149.76 1,280.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,766.00 13,615.00
Queries per second 97,660.00 136,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.94 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 1.02 0.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.44 2.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 0.84

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 12,445.00 12,081.00
Queries per second 124,450.00 120,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.62 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 0.8 0.83
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.27 9.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.08 0.95

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,049.00 5,846.00
Queries per second 50,490.00 58,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.67 1.42
Average Latency (ms) 1.98 1.71
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.4 9.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.43 1.93

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 21,580.00 18,517.00
Queries per second 215,800.00 185,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.36 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.46 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.92 7.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.56 0.63

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,900,092.00 2,249,592.00
Queries per second 19,000,920.00 22,495,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 240.35 194.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 210,450.00 360,565.00
Queries per second 2,104,500.00 3,605,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.97 0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 8,142.00 11,291.00
Queries per second 81,420.00 112,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.23 0.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.35 2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.86 1.14

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,378.00 13,877.00
Queries per second 113,780.00 138,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.29 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 0.88 0.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.18 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 21,383.00 18,476.00
Queries per second 213,830.00 184,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 0.47 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.39 11.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.62 0.64

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 21,598.00 18,856.00
Queries per second 215,980.00 188,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.36 0.44
Average Latency (ms) 0.46 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.24 7.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.62 0.61

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 156,197.00 235,558.00
Queries per second 1,561,970.00 2,355,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.53 6.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.07

Redis

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 51,098.62 46,490.00
PING_MBULK per Second 50,890.59 46,253.47
SET per Second 50,632.91 47,258.98
GET per Second 50,813.01 47,103.16
INCR per Second 50,632.91 47,415.84
LPUSH per Second 50,942.43 47,961.63
RPUSH per Second 51,020.41 47,573.74
LPOP per Second 51,229.51 45,766.59
RPOP per Second 51,493.30 47,869.79
SADD per Second 51,840.33 47,528.52
HSET per Second 52,301.26 47,460.84
SPOP per Second 52,410.90 46,360.68
ZADD per Second 51,921.08 47,869.79
ZPOPMIN per Second 51,948.05 47,619.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 35,410.77 37,693.18
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 20,881.19 23,980.81
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 15,010.51 17,208.74
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 12,975.22 16,358.58
MSET (10 keys) per Second 49,701.79 47,236.65

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.600.66
PING_MBULK0.590.65
SET0.600.66
GET0.600.66
INCR0.600.66
LPUSH0.600.66
RPUSH0.600.66
LPOP0.600.69
RPOP0.600.66
SADD0.590.65
HSET0.590.66
SPOP0.590.66
ZADD0.600.66
ZPOPMIN0.590.65
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.890.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.541.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.161.78
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.421.89
MSET (10 keys)0.660.71

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Based on benchmark results, the High Frequency Intel (1 GB) instance from Vultr outperforms the High Performance AMD (2 GB) instance in overall performance, especially in Redis operations where it registers higher request per second (rps) and lower latency across various commands such as SET, GET, and LPUSH. While the AMD instance shows better performance in CPU events per second, memory operations, and MySQL bulk insert, the Intel instance edges out in overall balanced performance, making it a better choice for workloads that require consistent high throughput and low latency, especially for applications that rely heavily on Redis.

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