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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 and did some benchmarking. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created 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 Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:07:32 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:02 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 $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 Frequency Intel (1 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 4 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-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,792.05 2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 7,584.09 5,800.00
Events per Second 1,418.80 4,289.74
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 0.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.97 3.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.74 0.25

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,260,754.36 7,477,695.15
Mebibytes per second 7,090.58 7,302.44
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.81 0.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,520,415.11 7,480,195.03
Mebibytes per second 7,344.16 7,304.88
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.36 0.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second 4,675.97 3,878.89
Writes per Second 3,117.32 2,585.89
Fsyncs per Second 9,977.97 8,276.45
Read Mebibytes per Second 73.06 60.61
Written Mebibytes per Second 48.71 40.40
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.47 2.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.16 0.19

Mutex

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,149.56 1,267.92
Average Latency (ms) 1,155.82 1,275.63
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,161.84 1,281.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,170.65 1,280.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 10,055.00 14,172.00
Queries per second 100,550.00 141,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.89 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 0.99 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.72 3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 0.78

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 12,149.00 12,730.00
Queries per second 121,490.00 127,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.64 0.62
Average Latency (ms) 0.82 0.78
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.53 4.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.03 0.94

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,295.00 6,314.00
Queries per second 42,950.00 63,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.71 1.39
Average Latency (ms) 2.33 1.58
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.32 7.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.76 1.76

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 21,088.00 20,594.00
Queries per second 210,880.00 205,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.47 0.48
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.56 3.1
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.62 0.57

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,783,592.00 2,395,217.00
Queries per second 17,835,920.00 23,952,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 439.57 192.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 224,934.00 364,617.00
Queries per second 2,249,340.00 3,646,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.18 0.91
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 7,840.00 11,020.00
Queries per second 78,400.00 110,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.48 0.31
Average Latency (ms) 1.27 0.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.92 3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.67 1.18

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 10,489.00 14,569.00
Queries per second 104,890.00 145,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.3 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 0.95 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.87 2.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.3 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 20,766.00 19,450.00
Queries per second 207,660.00 194,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.48 0.51
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.23 10.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.62 0.61

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 21,906.00 19,900.00
Queries per second 219,060.00 199,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.46 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.93 10.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.55 0.59

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 164,853.00 265,546.00
Queries per second 1,648,530.00 2,655,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.54 2.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.06

Redis

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 52,246.60 48,146.37
PING_MBULK per Second 52,826.20 47,460.84
SET per Second 52,083.34 49,140.05
GET per Second 53,134.96 48,332.53
INCR per Second 52,603.89 47,080.98
LPUSH per Second 51,652.89 48,449.61
RPUSH per Second 51,282.05 47,961.63
LPOP per Second 50,684.23 46,794.57
RPOP per Second 51,361.07 47,103.16
SADD per Second 51,413.88 47,984.64
HSET per Second 51,308.36 47,961.63
SPOP per Second 51,948.05 46,838.41
ZADD per Second 50,787.20 48,947.62
ZPOPMIN per Second 51,124.75 47,619.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 35,650.62 38,226.30
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 21,385.80 24,906.60
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 15,246.23 18,073.38
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 13,271.40 16,404.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second 49,603.17 48,262.55

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.580.63
PING_MBULK0.580.63
SET0.590.63
GET0.580.62
INCR0.580.65
LPUSH0.590.64
RPUSH0.590.65
LPOP0.610.68
RPOP0.600.66
SADD0.590.64
HSET0.590.65
SPOP0.580.64
ZADD0.600.64
ZPOPMIN0.590.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.870.82
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.511.30
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.111.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.471.95
MSET (10 keys)0.660.69

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Performance AMD instance from Vultr benchmarks significantly better in CPU-intensive tasks with 4289.74 events per second compared to the High Frequency Intel instance's 1418.8, favoring it for compute-heavy applications. However, the Intel instance shows superior performance in memory operations, with 73.06 MiB/s read throughput versus AMD's 60.61 MiB/s, making it more suitable for memory-intensive workloads. For CPU-heavy applications, choose the AMD instance, while for memory-intensive tasks, opt for the Intel instance.

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