How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores) is $48.00/mo and includes 3 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe of storage, and 4 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 (8 GB, 3 Cores)?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores) has 3 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe of storage, and 4 TB of monthly transfer for $48.00/mo.

Vultr High Frequency Intel 8 GB, 3 Cores ($48/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 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 (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Fri, 29 May 2026 03:00:52 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	$48.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	8	2
CPU Cores	3	2
Storage (TB)	256	60
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	4	4

CPU

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 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)	3,192.00	2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	6,384.00	5,799.98
Events per Second	4,158.65	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.24	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.24	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.36	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.25	0.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	8,875,417.41	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	8,667.40	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	8,759,765.08	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	8,554.46	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.06	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	11,845.09	5,114.79
Writes per Second	7,896.73	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	25,279.33	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	185.08	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	123.39	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.09	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.12

Mutex

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	247.36	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	383.31	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	406.80	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	404.61	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	12,573.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	125,730.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.72	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	0.79	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.28	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.83	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	12,652.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	126,520.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.53	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	0.79	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.16	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.89	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,807.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	58,070.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.32	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	1.72	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.74	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.93	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	22,653.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	226,530.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.29	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.44	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.6	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.55	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,657,342.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	26,573,420.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	189.32	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	291,249.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	2,912,490.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.03	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.28	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.04	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	13,913.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	139,130.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.26	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	0.72	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.19	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.92	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,016.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	140,160.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.28	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	0.71	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.78	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.9	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	22,430.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	224,300.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.29	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	0.45	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.58	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.56	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	22,845.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	228,450.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.29	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	0.44	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.63	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.55	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	143,023.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	1,430,230.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.02	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	14.16	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	90,909.09	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	92,250.92	57,903.88
SET per Second	91,491.30	57,703.40
GET per Second	91,491.30	57,703.40
INCR per Second	92,081.03	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	92,336.11	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	92,081.03	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	92,764.38	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	92,592.59	58,343.06
SADD per Second	91,659.03	58,241.12
HSET per Second	92,081.03	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	91,659.03	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	91,491.30	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	91,491.30	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	73,583.52	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	45,065.34	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	32,754.67	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	29,368.58	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	93,109.87	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.28	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.28	0.44
SET	0.28	0.45
GET	0.28	0.45
INCR	0.28	0.45
LPUSH	0.28	0.44
RPUSH	0.28	0.44
LPOP	0.27	0.44
RPOP	0.28	0.44
SADD	0.28	0.44
HSET	0.28	0.44
SPOP	0.28	0.44
ZADD	0.28	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.28	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.35	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.56	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	0.76	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	0.85	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.27	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Analyzing the benchmark results, the Vultr High Frequency Intel instance demonstrates superior overall performance across a wide range of metrics, showcasing higher throughput and lower latencies in CPU, memory, and I/O operations compared to the High Performance AMD instance. The Intel instance supports higher requests per second for Redis operations, superior file I/O throughput, and more efficient memory handling. Conversely, the AMD instance shows reasonable performance but lags behind in most benchmarks, especially in CPU-intensive tasks and longer-running I/O operations. Ideal use cases for the Intel instance would be CPU-intensive workloads such as high-throughput web servers, complex database operations, and any tasks that benefit from greater multitasking capabilities, whereas the AMD instance might serve well for lighter workloads or scenarios where cost is a primary concern despite somewhat lower performance.

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Vultr High Frequency Intel (8 GB, 3 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)