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

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:09:02 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:02 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-28-generic 7.0.0-28-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version 8.0.5 8.0.5
Location Newark, NJ Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $12.00 $12.00
RAM (GB) 2 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 64 50
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 3

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)

Evenly matched across 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX) AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,696.00 2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 7,391.99 5,800.00
Events per Second 1,429.28 4,289.74
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 0.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.93 3.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.8 0.25

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,573,259.47 7,477,695.15
Mebibytes per second 7,395.76 7,302.44
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.29 0.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,520,809.77 7,480,195.03
Mebibytes per second 7,344.54 7,304.88
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.33 0.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second 4,743.82 3,878.89
Writes per Second 3,162.54 2,585.89
Fsyncs per Second 10,128.84 8,276.45
Read Mebibytes per Second 74.12 60.61
Written Mebibytes per Second 49.41 40.40
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.43 2.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.16 0.19

Mutex

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,135.02 1,267.92
Average Latency (ms) 1,145.46 1,275.63
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,150.95 1,281.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,149.76 1,280.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 10,014.00 14,172.00
Queries per second 100,140.00 141,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 1 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.96 3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 0.78

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,181.00 12,730.00
Queries per second 111,810.00 127,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.58 0.62
Average Latency (ms) 0.89 0.78
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.24 4.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 0.94

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,056.00 6,314.00
Queries per second 40,560.00 63,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.7 1.39
Average Latency (ms) 2.46 1.58
Maximum Latency (ms) 19.4 7.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.82 1.76

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 20,663.00 20,594.00
Queries per second 206,630.00 205,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.32 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.48 0.48
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.62 3.1
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.64 0.57

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,870,967.00 2,395,217.00
Queries per second 18,709,670.00 23,952,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 227.33 192.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 229,513.00 364,617.00
Queries per second 2,295,130.00 3,646,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.03 0.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,697.00 11,020.00
Queries per second 76,970.00 110,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.31
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 0.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.34 3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.67 1.18

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 10,600.00 14,569.00
Queries per second 106,000.00 145,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 0.94 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.67 2.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.25 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 19,067.00 19,450.00
Queries per second 190,670.00 194,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.32 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.52 0.51
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.86 10.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.73 0.61

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 20,161.00 19,900.00
Queries per second 201,610.00 199,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.32 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.5 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.21 10.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.67 0.59

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 155,087.00 265,546.00
Queries per second 1,550,870.00 2,655,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.89 2.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.06

Redis

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 57,937.43 48,146.37
PING_MBULK per Second 57,670.13 47,460.84
SET per Second 60,096.15 49,140.05
GET per Second 60,938.45 48,332.53
INCR per Second 58,105.75 47,080.98
LPUSH per Second 59,453.03 48,449.61
RPUSH per Second 60,827.25 47,961.63
LPOP per Second 60,864.27 46,794.57
RPOP per Second 61,312.08 47,103.16
SADD per Second 59,066.75 47,984.64
HSET per Second 59,066.75 47,961.63
SPOP per Second 59,276.82 46,838.41
ZADD per Second 58,105.75 48,947.62
ZPOPMIN per Second 59,594.76 47,619.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 38,986.36 38,226.30
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 22,753.13 24,906.60
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 15,583.61 18,073.38
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 14,130.28 16,404.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second 54,674.69 48,262.55

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.520.63
PING_MBULK0.510.63
SET0.510.63
GET0.490.62
INCR0.510.65
LPUSH0.510.64
RPUSH0.500.65
LPOP0.510.68
RPOP0.500.66
SADD0.510.64
HSET0.510.65
SPOP0.500.64
ZADD0.520.64
ZPOPMIN0.500.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.810.82
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.441.30
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.061.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.351.95
MSET (10 keys)0.590.69

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Performance AMD (2 GB) instance from Vultr wins overall, especially in Redis benchmarks where it achieved an impressive 48,146.37 requests per second for PING_INLINE, compared to the Intel instance's 57,937.43 rps. While both instances show similar CPU benchmark results, the AMD instance excels in I/O operations, handling 3,878.89 read operations per second versus the Intel's 4,743.82. This makes the AMD instance more suitable for CPU-heavy and I/O-intensive workloads.

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