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

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:09:02 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:13:32 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-29-generic 7.0.0-29-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
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 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 Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX) Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,792.05 2,893.21
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 7,584.10 5,786.41
Events per Second 1,433.50 1,011.48
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.89
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 0.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.42 2.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.73 1.25

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 6,381,196.95 5,186,399.33
Mebibytes per second 6,231.64 5,064.84
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,590,256.83 5,103,338.99
Mebibytes per second 7,412.36 4,983.73
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.75 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 4,797.61 3,831.53
Writes per Second 3,198.41 2,554.36
Fsyncs per Second 10,240.61 8,179.23
Read Mebibytes per Second 74.96 59.87
Written Mebibytes per Second 49.98 39.91
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 19.53 2.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.15 0.21

Mutex

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,120.95 1,735.94
Average Latency (ms) 1,127.36 1,756.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,132.28 1,766.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,129.24 1,771.29

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 10,238.00 8,164.00
Queries per second 102,380.00 81,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.9 0.99
Average Latency (ms) 0.98 1.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.33 7.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.06 1.67

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 12,564.00 10,122.00
Queries per second 125,640.00 101,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.72
Average Latency (ms) 0.79 0.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.86 8.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.97 1.37

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,279.00 3,490.00
Queries per second 52,790.00 34,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.64 1.98
Average Latency (ms) 1.89 2.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.39 12.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 4.03

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 22,126.00 15,691.00
Queries per second 221,260.00 156,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.45 0.63
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.84 6.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.53 0.87

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,958,342.00 1,084,592.00
Queries per second 19,583,420.00 10,845,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 207.7 581.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 216,335.00 225,553.00
Queries per second 2,163,350.00 2,255,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.11 1.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 8,316.00 5,528.00
Queries per second 83,160.00 55,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.4 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 1.2 1.81
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.62 5.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.55 2.52

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,393.00 7,887.00
Queries per second 113,930.00 78,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.24 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.88 1.27
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.81 7.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 1.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 20,610.00 16,393.00
Queries per second 206,100.00 163,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.36 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.48 0.61
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.53 5.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.65 0.84

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 22,150.00 17,497.00
Queries per second 221,500.00 174,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.45 0.57
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.44 4.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.54 0.74

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 162,113.00 145,609.00
Queries per second 1,621,130.00 1,456,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.22 4.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.12

Redis

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 50,327.12 64,892.93
PING_MBULK per Second 52,002.08 69,108.50
SET per Second 52,966.10 69,735.01
GET per Second 53,022.27 70,821.53
INCR per Second 53,219.80 63,371.36
LPUSH per Second 52,273.91 61,576.36
RPUSH per Second 52,056.22 64,808.82
LPOP per Second 51,679.59 61,842.92
RPOP per Second 50,890.59 61,312.08
SADD per Second 49,603.17 63,411.54
HSET per Second 51,466.80 63,331.22
SPOP per Second 53,134.96 63,371.36
ZADD per Second 51,948.05 63,979.53
ZPOPMIN per Second 52,742.62 65,231.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 36,832.41 36,456.43
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 22,041.00 17,639.79
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 15,622.56 11,498.22
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 13,980.15 9,613.54
MSET (10 keys) per Second 50,025.02 54,347.82

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.610.49
PING_MBULK0.580.46
SET0.590.46
GET0.580.45
INCR0.590.51
LPUSH0.600.52
RPUSH0.600.50
LPOP0.600.52
RPOP0.610.53
SADD0.620.50
HSET0.600.51
SPOP0.580.50
ZADD0.600.50
ZPOPMIN0.590.49
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.850.92
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.481.83
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.022.82
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.373.27
MSET (10 keys)0.660.72

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB) instance clearly outperforms the High Frequency Intel (2 GB) in most benchmarks, especially in Redis operations where it achieves significantly higher requests per second (e.g., SET at 69,735.01 rps vs 52,966.1 rps) and lower latencies. The High Performance variant also excels in MySQL bulk insert transactions (108,353.15 tps vs 195,682.07 tps). Therefore, it's recommended for CPU-heavy workloads requiring high throughput and low latency, while the High Frequency instance might be more suitable for budget-conscious users needing moderate performance.

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