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Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB)

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Same showdown, different day. 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 or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:38:07 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:21 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-27-generic 7.0.0-27-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 $6.00 $6.00
RAM (GB) 1 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 25
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC-Milan Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,900.01 2,893.20
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 5,800.01 5,786.40
Events per Second 4,263.00 1,049.60
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.22 0.9
Average Latency (ms) 0.23 0.95
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.59 4.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.25 1.12

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,394,314.05 5,247,794.58
Mebibytes per second 7,221.01 5,124.80
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.64 2.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,435,901.40 5,230,407.37
Mebibytes per second 7,261.62 5,107.82
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.46 1.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second 4,898.86 4,064.54
Writes per Second 3,265.91 2,709.66
Fsyncs per Second 10,451.60 8,672.51
Read Mebibytes per Second 76.54 63.51
Written Mebibytes per Second 51.03 42.34
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.49 6.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.12 0.19

Mutex

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,293.74 1,611.76
Average Latency (ms) 1,300.68 1,623.75
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,307.25 1,635.20
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,304.21 1,648.20

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 13,568.00 8,324.00
Queries per second 135,680.00 83,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.66 1.06
Average Latency (ms) 0.74 1.2
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.22 5.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.95 1.5

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 12,148.00 9,781.00
Queries per second 121,480.00 97,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.62 0.77
Average Latency (ms) 0.82 1.02
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.71 10.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.01 1.39

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,113.00 4,006.00
Queries per second 61,130.00 40,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.41 2.02
Average Latency (ms) 1.63 2.49
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.63 8.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.89 3.13

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 19,984.00 17,670.00
Queries per second 199,840.00 176,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.5 0.56
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.15 8.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.6 0.72

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,278,717.00 1,317,592.00
Queries per second 22,787,170.00 13,175,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 246.62 320.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 365,463.00 214,470.00
Queries per second 3,654,630.00 2,144,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.02 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.03 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.85 3.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.04 0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 11,124.00 5,913.00
Queries per second 111,240.00 59,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.3 0.53
Average Latency (ms) 0.9 1.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.43 6.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.16 2.22

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 14,369.00 8,048.00
Queries per second 143,690.00 80,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.18 0.5
Average Latency (ms) 0.69 1.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.88 3.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.9 1.7

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 19,115.00 17,291.00
Queries per second 191,150.00 172,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.44
Average Latency (ms) 0.52 0.58
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.81 7.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.64 0.75

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 19,801.00 18,069.00
Queries per second 198,010.00 180,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.5 0.55
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.26 5.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.61 0.7

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 264,739.00 154,947.00
Queries per second 2,647,390.00 1,549,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.02 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.79 9.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.11

Redis

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 47,415.84 45,766.59
PING_MBULK per Second 47,303.69 44,424.70
SET per Second 47,281.32 45,045.04
GET per Second 46,728.97 45,065.34
INCR per Second 47,846.89 46,663.56
LPUSH per Second 48,076.93 44,603.03
RPUSH per Second 47,846.89 46,146.75
LPOP per Second 48,123.20 44,903.46
RPOP per Second 46,882.33 44,523.60
SADD per Second 47,984.64 45,392.64
HSET per Second 47,892.72 46,468.40
SPOP per Second 46,403.71 47,036.69
ZADD per Second 48,076.93 45,682.96
ZPOPMIN per Second 47,732.70 45,871.56
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 37,509.38 31,387.32
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 24,137.10 17,470.30
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 17,831.67 12,192.15
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 16,095.28 10,672.36
MSET (10 keys) per Second 47,460.84 44,503.79

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.660.67
PING_MBULK0.660.67
SET0.670.68
GET0.670.68
INCR0.650.66
LPUSH0.650.69
RPUSH0.660.67
LPOP0.660.69
RPOP0.680.70
SADD0.650.68
HSET0.660.67
SPOP0.670.65
ZADD0.660.68
ZPOPMIN0.650.67
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.840.99
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.331.78
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.692.68
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.942.99
MSET (10 keys)0.710.75

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance AMD instance narrowly edges out the Vultr High Performance Intel instance across key benchmarks. Notably, the AMD instance performs significantly better in Redis operations, such as the LRANGE benchmark that sees 47,732 RPS compared to the Intel's 12,192 RPS, and has lower latency in most Redis commands. The AMD also leads in CPU performance with 42,633 events per second against Intel's 10,496. This suggests the AMD instance is better suited for CPU-intensive applications, while the Intel variant, despite strong throughput, shows poorer performance in complex data handling tasks and should be considered for more read/write-heavy workloads.

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