Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 GMT Sun, 31 May 2026 15:00:52 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 $18.00 $24.00
RAM (GB) 2 4
CPU Cores 2 2
Storage (TB) 80 128
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 3 3

CPU

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX) Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,791.98 3,791.97
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 7,583.95 7,583.94
Events per Second 1,552.05 1,574.56
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.62 0.62
Average Latency (ms) 0.64 0.63
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.61 2.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.69 0.68

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 7,875,668.83 7,748,150.36
Mebibytes per second 7,691.08 7,566.55
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.12 0.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 7,729,812.11 7,774,132.12
Mebibytes per second 7,548.64 7,591.93
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.16 0.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 4,671.85 7,795.87
Writes per Second 3,114.56 5,197.25
Fsyncs per Second 9,976.90 16,639.28
Read Mebibytes per Second 73.00 121.81
Written Mebibytes per Second 48.67 81.21
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.76 0.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.17 0.12

Mutex

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 543.27 508.91
Average Latency (ms) 554.74 536.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 563.70 555.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 559.50 559.50

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 10,621.00 10,239.00
Queries per second 106,210.00 102,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.86 0.89
Average Latency (ms) 0.94 0.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.5 3.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.03 1.1

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 10,229.00 9,867.00
Queries per second 102,290.00 98,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.64 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 0.98 1.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.08 2.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.23 1.27

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,072.00 4,833.00
Queries per second 50,720.00 48,330.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.59 1.66
Average Latency (ms) 1.97 2.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.94 13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.39 2.48

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 16,038.00 16,634.00
Queries per second 160,380.00 166,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.62 0.6
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.18 11.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.8 0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,424,342.00 2,395,217.00
Queries per second 24,243,420.00 23,952,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 205.81 203.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 241,313.00 234,845.00
Queries per second 2,413,130.00 2,348,450.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.03 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.76 0.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 12,080.00 10,869.00
Queries per second 120,800.00 108,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.21 0.26
Average Latency (ms) 0.83 0.92
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.31 2.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.04 1.34

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 10,527.00 10,176.00
Queries per second 105,270.00 101,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.16 0.38
Average Latency (ms) 0.95 0.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.25 3.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.23 1.3

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 17,123.00 16,370.00
Queries per second 171,230.00 163,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.58 0.61
Maximum Latency (ms) 2 1.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.78 0.81

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 16,979.00 16,970.00
Queries per second 169,790.00 169,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.59 0.59
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.13 1.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.8 0.81

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 156,424.00 155,757.00
Queries per second 1,564,240.00 1,557,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.03 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.87 2.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.07 0.08

Redis

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 88,652.48 85,910.65
PING_MBULK per Second 89,605.73 87,796.30
SET per Second 90,171.33 89,047.20
GET per Second 90,579.71 88,105.73
INCR per Second 90,744.10 87,032.20
LPUSH per Second 90,497.73 87,032.20
RPUSH per Second 90,415.91 88,573.96
LPOP per Second 90,909.09 88,417.33
RPOP per Second 90,661.83 89,525.52
SADD per Second 90,252.70 88,183.43
HSET per Second 90,415.91 89,047.20
SPOP per Second 89,928.05 86,956.52
ZADD per Second 90,415.91 88,183.43
ZPOPMIN per Second 90,009.01 87,260.03
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 66,533.60 63,251.11
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 36,179.45 34,940.60
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 26,239.83 25,700.33
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 22,547.91 22,537.75
MSET (10 keys) per Second 88,105.73 85,836.91

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.300.31
PING_MBULK0.290.29
SET0.290.29
GET0.290.29
INCR0.280.30
LPUSH0.290.30
RPUSH0.290.29
LPOP0.280.29
RPOP0.280.29
SADD0.290.29
HSET0.290.29
SPOP0.290.30
ZADD0.290.30
ZPOPMIN0.290.30
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.390.46
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)0.710.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)0.970.99
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.141.15
MSET (10 keys)0.300.30

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Both Vultr instances performed admirably in the benchmarks, with the 4 GB, 2 Core configuration (vhf-2c-4gb) slightly outperforming the 2 GB, 2 Core variant (vhf-2c-2gb) in almost all categories. The 4 GB instance showed higher Redis operations per second (rps) and lower latencies across various Redis commands, as well as better CPU and file I/O performance. The memory benchmarks also indicated faster read and write operations per second along with higher throughput. For users with CPU-intensive tasks or those needing better I/O performance, the vhf-2c-4gb instance is more suitable. Conversely, the vhf-2c-2gb instance could be more appealing for cost-sensitive users with less demanding workloads.

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