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Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB)

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:09:02 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:47 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 $6.00
RAM (GB) 2 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 64 25
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (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 Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)

Evenly matched across 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX) Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,696.00 2,992.91
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 7,391.99 5,985.82
Events per Second 1,429.28 1,085.49
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.87
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 0.92
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.93 1.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.8 1.04

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,573,259.47 5,287,233.83
Mebibytes per second 7,395.76 5,163.31
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.29 0.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,520,809.77 5,446,064.29
Mebibytes per second 7,344.54 5,318.42
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.33 0.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second 4,743.82 3,945.14
Writes per Second 3,162.54 2,630.10
Fsyncs per Second 10,128.84 8,418.81
Read Mebibytes per Second 74.12 61.64
Written Mebibytes per Second 49.41 41.10
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.43 2.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.16 0.2

Mutex

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,135.02 1,674.69
Average Latency (ms) 1,145.46 1,689.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,150.95 1,697.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,149.76 1,708.63

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 10,014.00 9,332.00
Queries per second 100,140.00 93,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 0.93
Average Latency (ms) 1 1.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.96 15.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 1.32

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,181.00 11,031.00
Queries per second 111,810.00 110,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.58 0.69
Average Latency (ms) 0.89 0.9
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.24 11.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 1.23

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,056.00 4,749.00
Queries per second 40,560.00 47,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.7 1.79
Average Latency (ms) 2.46 2.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 19.4 7.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.82 2.57

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 20,663.00 18,923.00
Queries per second 206,630.00 189,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.32 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.48 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.62 10.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.64 0.68

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,870,967.00 1,375,842.00
Queries per second 18,709,670.00 13,758,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 227.33 345.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 229,513.00 263,886.00
Queries per second 2,295,130.00 2,638,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.03 2.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,697.00 6,167.00
Queries per second 76,970.00 61,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.53
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 1.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.34 6.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.67 2.11

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 10,600.00 8,650.00
Queries per second 106,000.00 86,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 0.94 1.15
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.67 3.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.25 1.52

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 19,067.00 18,825.00
Queries per second 190,670.00 188,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.32 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.52 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.86 5.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.73 0.69

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 20,161.00 19,241.00
Queries per second 201,610.00 192,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.32 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.5 0.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.21 4.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.67 0.65

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 155,087.00 200,203.00
Queries per second 1,550,870.00 2,002,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.89 3.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.08

Redis

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 57,937.43 70,472.16
PING_MBULK per Second 57,670.13 75,187.97
SET per Second 60,096.15 73,909.83
GET per Second 60,938.45 69,156.30
INCR per Second 58,105.75 59,952.04
LPUSH per Second 59,453.03 52,576.24
RPUSH per Second 60,827.25 68,634.18
LPOP per Second 60,864.27 59,171.59
RPOP per Second 61,312.08 53,219.80
SADD per Second 59,066.75 67,430.88
HSET per Second 59,066.75 63,734.86
SPOP per Second 59,276.82 43,859.65
ZADD per Second 58,105.75 43,365.13
ZPOPMIN per Second 59,594.76 49,285.36
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 38,986.36 36,982.25
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 22,753.13 19,992.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 15,583.61 12,827.09
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 14,130.28 10,901.56
MSET (10 keys) per Second 54,674.69 64,350.06

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.520.45
PING_MBULK0.510.42
SET0.510.44
GET0.490.46
INCR0.510.53
LPUSH0.510.61
RPUSH0.500.47
LPOP0.510.55
RPOP0.500.62
SADD0.510.47
HSET0.510.51
SPOP0.500.72
ZADD0.520.75
ZPOPMIN0.500.64
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.810.90
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.441.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.062.58
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.352.88
MSET (10 keys)0.590.61

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Frequency Intel (2 GB) instance from Vultr edges out the High Performance Intel (1 GB) instance in overall performance, particularly in CPU-intensive benchmarks like Redis GET commands achieving 60,938.45 requests per second (rps) with an average latency of 0.491 ms, compared to the High Performance instance's 69,156.3 rps with an average latency of 0.459 ms. For database operations, the High Frequency instance also leads in MySQL bulk insert with a transaction per second (tps) rate of 184,521.71 and an average latency of 0.01 ms, while the High Performance instance manages 133,394.61 tps with an average latency of 0.01 ms. For those needing higher CPU power and lower latency, the High Frequency instance is the superior choice, despite having double the RAM, due to its higher performance in critical benchmarks.

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