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

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Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up brand new instance from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 30 May 2026 04:00:53 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 $12.00 $18.00
RAM (GB) 2 2
CPU Cores 1 2
Storage (TB) 64 60
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 4

CPU

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) 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) 3,791.97 2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 7,583.94 5,799.98
Events per Second 1,593.09 4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 0.2
Average Latency (ms) 0.63 0.21
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.66 1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.65 0.23

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 7,916,351.10 7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second 7,730.81 7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.16 0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 7,863,886.09 7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second 7,679.58 7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.38 0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 5,077.93 5,114.79
Writes per Second 3,385.29 3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second 10,834.84 10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second 79.34 79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second 52.90 53.28
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.74 3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.17 0.12

Mutex

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,082.69 574.03
Average Latency (ms) 1,093.56 637.47
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,099.59 663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,109.09 657.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 10,304.00 9,622.00
Queries per second 103,040.00 96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 0.73
Average Latency (ms) 0.97 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.2 2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.01 1.12

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 9,808.00 9,585.00
Queries per second 98,080.00 95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.8
Average Latency (ms) 1.02 1.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.58 2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.3 1.32

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,518.00 4,686.00
Queries per second 45,180.00 46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.83 1.57
Average Latency (ms) 2.21 2.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.79 4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.48 2.52

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 17,151.00 15,965.00
Queries per second 171,510.00 159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.45
Average Latency (ms) 0.58 0.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.16 2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.77 0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,220,467.00 3,065,092.00
Queries per second 22,204,670.00 30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 218.23 208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 228,285.00 217,035.00
Queries per second 2,282,850.00 2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.95 0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.05 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 10,858.00 14,818.00
Queries per second 108,580.00 148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.33 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 0.92 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.91 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.18 0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 11,191.00 14,341.00
Queries per second 111,910.00 143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.28 0.27
Average Latency (ms) 0.89 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.59 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 16,366.00 14,864.00
Queries per second 163,660.00 148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.47
Average Latency (ms) 0.61 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.14 2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.83 0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 16,708.00 15,284.00
Queries per second 167,080.00 152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.46
Average Latency (ms) 0.6 0.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.68 1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.75 0.83

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 147,811.00 151,536.00
Queries per second 1,478,110.00 1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.52 4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.08

Redis

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 55,401.66 55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second 55,803.57 57,903.88
SET per Second 55,309.73 57,703.40
GET per Second 55,959.71 57,703.40
INCR per Second 55,401.66 57,372.34
LPUSH per Second 55,005.50 57,836.90
RPUSH per Second 55,096.42 58,173.36
LPOP per Second 54,229.93 58,343.06
RPOP per Second 54,764.51 58,343.06
SADD per Second 55,741.36 58,241.12
HSET per Second 55,370.98 58,858.15
SPOP per Second 56,116.72 58,892.82
ZADD per Second 54,945.05 57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second 56,211.35 57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 37,707.39 49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 20,802.99 34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 14,297.97 26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 12,594.46 24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second 51,975.05 58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.580.48
PING_MBULK0.580.44
SET0.580.45
GET0.570.45
INCR0.580.45
LPUSH0.590.44
RPUSH0.590.44
LPOP0.600.44
RPOP0.600.44
SADD0.580.44
HSET0.580.44
SPOP0.570.44
ZADD0.590.45
ZPOPMIN0.570.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.910.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.670.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.500.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.851.05
MSET (10 keys)0.670.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Both instances offer strong performance but differ in key areas suited to different workloads. The High Frequency Intel instance has higher Redis throughput and lower latency across most operations, making it ideal for applications requiring high-speed data access and low latency, such as high-frequency trading platforms or real-time analytics. In contrast, the High Performance AMD instance excels with slightly higher CPU benchmark scores and slightly better MySQL performance, suggesting it might be more suitable for compute-heavy applications or workloads benefiting from additional CPU power, like large-scale data processing or complex calculations. While the Intel instance is marginally superior in raw data handling speed, the AMD instance's performance in CPU-intensive tasks could edge it out for certain workloads, especially where multi-threading efficiency is critical.

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