How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 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 (2 GB, 2 Cores)?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) has 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 TB of monthly transfer for $18.00/mo.

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

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 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 (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 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	$18.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	80	60
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	4

CPU

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	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)	3,791.98	2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	7,583.95	5,799.98
Events per Second	1,552.05	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.62	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.64	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.61	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.69	0.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,875,668.83	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	7,691.08	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.12	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,729,812.11	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	7,548.64	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.16	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,671.85	5,114.79
Writes per Second	3,114.56	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	9,976.90	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	73.00	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	48.67	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.76	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.12

Mutex

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	543.27	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	554.74	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	563.70	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	559.50	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,621.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	106,210.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.86	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	0.94	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.5	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.03	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,229.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	102,290.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.64	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.08	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.23	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,072.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	50,720.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.59	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	1.97	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.94	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.39	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,038.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	160,380.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.18	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.8	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,424,342.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	24,243,420.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	205.81	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	241,313.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	2,413,130.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.76	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.05	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	12,080.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	120,800.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.21	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	0.83	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.31	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.04	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,527.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	105,270.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.16	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	0.95	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.25	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.23	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	17,123.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	171,230.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	0.58	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	2	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.78	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,979.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	169,790.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	0.59	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.13	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.8	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	156,424.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	1,564,240.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.87	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	88,652.48	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	89,605.73	57,903.88
SET per Second	90,171.33	57,703.40
GET per Second	90,579.71	57,703.40
INCR per Second	90,744.10	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	90,497.73	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	90,415.91	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	90,909.09	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	90,661.83	58,343.06
SADD per Second	90,252.70	58,241.12
HSET per Second	90,415.91	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	89,928.05	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	90,415.91	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	90,009.01	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	66,533.60	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	36,179.45	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	26,239.83	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	22,547.91	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	88,105.73	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.30	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.29	0.44
SET	0.29	0.45
GET	0.29	0.45
INCR	0.28	0.45
LPUSH	0.29	0.44
RPUSH	0.29	0.44
LPOP	0.28	0.44
RPOP	0.28	0.44
SADD	0.29	0.44
HSET	0.29	0.44
SPOP	0.29	0.44
ZADD	0.29	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.29	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.39	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.71	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	0.97	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.14	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.30	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the benchmarks, the Vultr High Frequency Intel instance delivers higher Redis performance rates for most operations, notably reaching around 91,000 requests per second for basic commands like GET and SET, and significantly better file I/O throughput with 70.39 MiB/s reads and 46.92 MiB/s writes. The AMD EPYC-based Vultr High Performance instance, while showing respectable performance, trails behind with lower Redis request rates averaging around 58,000 requests per second for similar commands and lower file I/O throughput at 79.27 MiB/s reads and 52.85 MiB/s writes. The Intel instance also excels in MySQL operations, particularly bulk inserts and read-heavy OLTP tasks. While both instances perform well in memory operations and thread fairness, the Intel instance maintains the edge in overall performance metrics, making it more suitable for CPU-intensive workloads and applications requiring high throughput and low latency. The AMD instance, despite its lower absolute performance, could still be a strong contender for applications that prioritize cost-effectiveness over peak performance.

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