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

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was spun up with 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) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:00:52 GMT Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 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 $12.00 $18.00
RAM (GB) 2 2
CPU Cores 1 2
Storage (TB) 64 80
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 3

CPU

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 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) 3,791.94 3,791.98
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 7,583.88 7,583.95
Events per Second 1,614.29 1,552.05
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 0.62
Average Latency (ms) 0.62 0.64
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.64 4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.65 0.69

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 7,985,914.58 7,875,668.83
Mebibytes per second 7,798.74 7,691.08
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.24 0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 7,978,494.69 7,729,812.11
Mebibytes per second 7,791.50 7,548.64
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.18 0.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 4,908.89 4,671.85
Writes per Second 3,272.56 3,114.56
Fsyncs per Second 10,477.62 9,976.90
Read Mebibytes per Second 76.70 73.00
Written Mebibytes per Second 51.13 48.67
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.03 2.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.17 0.17

Mutex

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,069.98 543.27
Average Latency (ms) 1,074.62 554.74
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,079.74 563.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,089.30 559.50

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 10,721.00 10,621.00
Queries per second 107,210.00 106,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.88 0.86
Average Latency (ms) 0.93 0.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.02 2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.99 1.03

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 10,441.00 10,229.00
Queries per second 104,410.00 102,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.66 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 0.96 0.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.34 2.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.21 1.23

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,696.00 5,072.00
Queries per second 46,960.00 50,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.77 1.59
Average Latency (ms) 2.13 1.97
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.93 3.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.39 2.39

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 16,763.00 16,038.00
Queries per second 167,630.00 160,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.38
Average Latency (ms) 0.6 0.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.1 13.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.77 0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,163,851.00 2,424,342.00
Queries per second 21,638,510.00 24,243,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 339.49 205.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 241,217.00 241,313.00
Queries per second 2,412,170.00 2,413,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.64 0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 11,395.00 12,080.00
Queries per second 113,950.00 120,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.21
Average Latency (ms) 0.88 0.83
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.85 3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 1.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 11,233.00 10,527.00
Queries per second 112,330.00 105,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.26 0.16
Average Latency (ms) 0.89 0.95
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.45 3.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 1.23

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 16,456.00 17,123.00
Queries per second 164,560.00 171,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.38
Average Latency (ms) 0.61 0.58
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.08 2
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.84 0.78

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 17,511.00 16,979.00
Queries per second 175,110.00 169,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.38
Average Latency (ms) 0.57 0.59
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.23 4.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.73 0.8

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 155,994.00 156,424.00
Queries per second 1,559,940.00 1,564,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.33 4.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.07

Redis

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 55,279.16 88,652.48
PING_MBULK per Second 56,053.81 89,605.73
SET per Second 55,187.64 90,171.33
GET per Second 55,772.45 90,579.71
INCR per Second 55,741.36 90,744.10
LPUSH per Second 55,340.34 90,497.73
RPUSH per Second 55,187.64 90,415.91
LPOP per Second 55,096.42 90,909.09
RPOP per Second 55,187.64 90,661.83
SADD per Second 55,218.11 90,252.70
HSET per Second 55,096.42 90,415.91
SPOP per Second 55,959.71 89,928.05
ZADD per Second 55,309.73 90,415.91
ZPOPMIN per Second 56,053.81 90,009.01
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 37,835.79 66,533.60
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 21,088.15 36,179.45
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 14,148.27 26,239.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 12,471.94 22,547.91
MSET (10 keys) per Second 51,894.13 88,105.73

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.580.30
PING_MBULK0.570.29
SET0.590.29
GET0.580.29
INCR0.580.28
LPUSH0.580.29
RPUSH0.580.29
LPOP0.590.28
RPOP0.580.28
SADD0.580.29
HSET0.590.29
SPOP0.580.29
ZADD0.590.29
ZPOPMIN0.570.29
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.910.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.650.71
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.560.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.891.14
MSET (10 keys)0.660.30

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 1 Core) instance demonstrates respectable Redis performance with high request rates and low latency for most operations, although it shows a bit more variability in latency for larger list range queries. The Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance shows significantly higher request rates and lower average latencies for Redis operations, indicating better performance due to the addition of a second CPU core. File I/O and memory performance are also comparable between the two instances, with slight edge to the 2-core version in throughput and slightly lower latency for mutex operations. The 2-core instance is better suited for CPU-intensive and multi-threaded workloads, while the 1-core version remains a good choice for single-threaded applications or when cost is a primary concern.

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