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 (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) is $48.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 180 GB NVMe of storage, and 6 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 8 GB, 4 Cores ($48/mo) Benchmarks

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up brand new instance from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 GMT	Sat, 30 May 2026 23:00:52 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	$48.00
RAM (GB)	2	8
CPU Cores	2	4
Storage (TB)	80	180
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	6

CPU

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,791.98	2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	7,583.95	5,799.99
Events per Second	1,552.05	4,651.31
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.62	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.64	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.61	0.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.69	0.22

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	7,875,668.83	7,539,967.02
Mebibytes per second	7,691.08	7,363.25
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.12	0.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	7,729,812.11	7,548,797.16
Mebibytes per second	7,548.64	7,371.87
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.16	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,671.85	7,813.30
Writes per Second	3,114.56	5,208.87
Fsyncs per Second	9,976.90	16,674.38
Read Mebibytes per Second	73.00	122.08
Written Mebibytes per Second	48.67	81.39
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.76	0.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.11

Mutex

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	543.27	163.69
Average Latency (ms)	554.74	303.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	563.70	365.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	559.50	363.18

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,621.00	9,620.00
Queries per second	106,210.00	96,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.86	0.79
Average Latency (ms)	0.94	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.5	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.03	1.16

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,229.00	8,700.00
Queries per second	102,290.00	87,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.64	0.84
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	1.15
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.08	7.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.23	1.34

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,072.00	4,664.00
Queries per second	50,720.00	46,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.59	1.63
Average Latency (ms)	1.97	2.14
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.94	4.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.39	2.57

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,038.00	13,911.00
Queries per second	160,380.00	139,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.72
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.18	2.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.8	0.89

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,424,342.00	2,715,592.00
Queries per second	24,243,420.00	27,155,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	205.81	213.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	241,313.00	219,615.00
Queries per second	2,413,130.00	2,196,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.76	0.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.05	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	12,080.00	14,319.00
Queries per second	120,800.00	143,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.21	0.23
Average Latency (ms)	0.83	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.31	3.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.04	0.9

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,527.00	13,994.00
Queries per second	105,270.00	139,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.16	0.23
Average Latency (ms)	0.95	0.71
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.25	1.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.23	0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	17,123.00	13,411.00
Queries per second	171,230.00	134,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.48
Average Latency (ms)	0.58	0.75
Maximum Latency (ms)	2	13.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.78	0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,979.00	13,309.00
Queries per second	169,790.00	133,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.49
Average Latency (ms)	0.59	0.75
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.13	3.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.8	0.94

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	156,424.00	144,026.00
Queries per second	1,564,240.00	1,440,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.87	2.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	88,652.48	68,119.89
PING_MBULK per Second	89,605.73	64,184.86
SET per Second	90,171.33	63,371.36
GET per Second	90,579.71	66,401.06
INCR per Second	90,744.10	62,305.30
LPUSH per Second	90,497.73	60,827.25
RPUSH per Second	90,415.91	67,114.09
LPOP per Second	90,909.09	63,613.23
RPOP per Second	90,661.83	67,340.07
SADD per Second	90,252.70	70,521.86
HSET per Second	90,415.91	66,401.06
SPOP per Second	89,928.05	62,695.92
ZADD per Second	90,415.91	58,685.45
ZPOPMIN per Second	90,009.01	57,971.02
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	66,533.60	55,586.44
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	36,179.45	35,026.27
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	26,239.83	26,357.41
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	22,547.91	23,906.29
MSET (10 keys) per Second	88,105.73	66,577.90

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.30	0.38
PING_MBULK	0.29	0.40
SET	0.29	0.41
GET	0.29	0.39
INCR	0.28	0.41
LPUSH	0.29	0.42
RPUSH	0.29	0.38
LPOP	0.28	0.41
RPOP	0.28	0.38
SADD	0.29	0.36
HSET	0.29	0.39
SPOP	0.29	0.41
ZADD	0.29	0.44
ZPOPMIN	0.29	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.39	0.46
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.71	0.75
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	0.97	0.98
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.14	1.10
MSET (10 keys)	0.30	0.39

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

When comparing the Vultr High Frequency Intel and High Performance AMD instances, it's evident that the AMD instance, despite having more cores and higher CPU MHz, does not outperform the Intel instance in most metrics. The Intel instance excels in Redis benchmarks, achieving significantly higher requests per second and lower latency across various operations. The file I/O, memory, and MySQL benchmarks also favor the Intel instance, especially in throughput and latency. In contrast, the AMD instance shows better performance in CPU and thread fairness benchmarks, though the differences are not overwhelming. For CPU-intensive or memory-heavy workloads, the High Frequency Intel instance is more suited, while for workloads that benefit from higher core counts and slightly better CPU performance, the High Performance AMD instance may be preferable, although the difference in overall performance is relatively minor.

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Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)