How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) is $24.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe of storage, and 4 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of Vultr High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) has 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 TB of monthly transfer for $24.00/mo.

Vultr High Frequency Intel 4 GB, 2 Cores ($24/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sun, 31 May 2026 15:00:52 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	$24.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	4	2
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	128	60
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	4

CPU

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	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	1,574.56	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.62	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.63	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.75	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.68	0.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,748,150.36	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	7,566.55	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.07	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,774,132.12	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	7,591.93	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.27	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	7,795.87	5,114.79
Writes per Second	5,197.25	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	16,639.28	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	121.81	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	81.21	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.03	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.85	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.12	0.12

Mutex

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	508.91	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	536.68	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	555.84	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	559.50	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,239.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	102,390.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.89	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.09	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.1	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,867.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	98,670.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	1.01	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.05	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.27	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,833.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	48,330.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.66	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	2.07	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	13	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.48	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,634.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	166,340.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.4	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.6	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.65	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.8	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,395,217.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	23,952,170.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	203.97	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	234,845.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	2,348,450.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.05	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,869.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	108,690.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.26	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	0.92	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.74	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.34	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,176.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	101,760.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.71	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.3	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,370.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	163,700.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.39	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	0.61	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.95	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.81	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,970.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	169,700.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.39	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	0.59	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.83	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.81	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	155,757.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	1,557,570.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.85	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.08	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	85,910.65	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	87,796.30	57,903.88
SET per Second	89,047.20	57,703.40
GET per Second	88,105.73	57,703.40
INCR per Second	87,032.20	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	87,032.20	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	88,573.96	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	88,417.33	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	89,525.52	58,343.06
SADD per Second	88,183.43	58,241.12
HSET per Second	89,047.20	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	86,956.52	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	88,183.43	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	87,260.03	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	63,251.11	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	34,940.60	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	25,700.33	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	22,537.75	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	85,836.91	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.31	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.29	0.44
SET	0.29	0.45
GET	0.29	0.45
INCR	0.30	0.45
LPUSH	0.30	0.44
RPUSH	0.29	0.44
LPOP	0.29	0.44
RPOP	0.29	0.44
SADD	0.29	0.44
HSET	0.29	0.44
SPOP	0.30	0.44
ZADD	0.30	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.30	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.46	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.74	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	0.99	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.15	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.30	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmark results for both instances, the Vultr High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) performs significantly better in most metrics compared to the High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores). The Intel instance shows higher Redis request rates per second (rps) across various operations, better CPU event processing rates, superior file I/O performance with higher throughputs and lower latencies, and generally lower memory and mutex latencies. However, the AMD instance has competitive CPU performance, file I/O throughput, and memory operation rates. Given these metrics, the High Frequency Intel instance is more suited for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads where higher RAM and better processing speeds are beneficial, whereas the AMD instance could suffice for less demanding tasks where the lower memory and slightly lower processing speeds are acceptable trade-offs.

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Vultr High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)