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

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:10:32 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:13:32 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 $6.00 $12.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 50
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 3

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 Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,899.99 2,893.21
CPU Cache Size (KB) 1,024.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 5,799.98 5,786.41
Events per Second 4,233.82 999.67
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.22 0.9
Average Latency (ms) 0.24 1
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.63 2.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.25 1.23

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,457,681.72 4,899,364.23
Mebibytes per second 7,282.89 4,784.54
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.25 0.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,424,120.81 4,958,374.18
Mebibytes per second 7,250.12 4,842.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.89 1.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 4,024.70 3,921.65
Writes per Second 2,683.07 2,614.43
Fsyncs per Second 8,597.97 8,376.78
Read Mebibytes per Second 62.89 61.28
Written Mebibytes per Second 41.92 40.85
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.03 5.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.19 0.2

Mutex

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,234.88 1,859.93
Average Latency (ms) 1,242.52 1,885.81
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,247.16 1,898.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,258.08 1,903.57

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 13,940.00 9,027.00
Queries per second 139,400.00 90,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.66 0.96
Average Latency (ms) 0.72 1.11
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.38 2.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.84 1.44

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 12,785.00 8,431.00
Queries per second 127,850.00 84,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.61 0.75
Average Latency (ms) 0.78 1.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.66 9.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.94 1.76

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,195.00 3,610.00
Queries per second 61,950.00 36,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.37 2
Average Latency (ms) 1.61 2.77
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.73 15.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.96 3.75

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 19,096.00 14,727.00
Queries per second 190,960.00 147,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.52 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.83 4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.61 0.94

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,366,092.00 1,201,092.00
Queries per second 23,660,920.00 12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 308.75 387.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 387,291.00 228,161.00
Queries per second 3,872,910.00 2,281,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.02 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.03 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.46 1.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.04 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,571.00 4,700.00
Queries per second 115,710.00 47,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.29 0.78
Average Latency (ms) 0.86 2.12
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.29 9.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.1 3.3

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 14,459.00 7,069.00
Queries per second 144,590.00 70,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.22 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 0.69 1.41
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.7 4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.89 2.26

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 19,878.00 15,156.00
Queries per second 198,780.00 151,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.4 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.5 0.66
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.92 5.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.61 0.95

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 19,848.00 15,180.00
Queries per second 198,480.00 151,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.5 0.66
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.22 3.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.59 0.9

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 269,641.00 149,333.00
Queries per second 2,696,410.00 1,493,330.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.02 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.94 2.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.12

Redis

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 48,262.55 45,998.16
PING_MBULK per Second 48,590.86 59,916.12
SET per Second 48,309.18 57,438.25
GET per Second 48,146.37 50,581.69
INCR per Second 47,687.18 57,240.98
LPUSH per Second 49,164.21 57,306.59
RPUSH per Second 48,379.30 52,631.58
LPOP per Second 49,407.12 52,854.12
RPOP per Second 49,627.79 54,794.52
SADD per Second 48,520.13 59,382.42
HSET per Second 48,239.27 57,636.89
SPOP per Second 48,169.56 54,854.64
ZADD per Second 48,875.86 58,892.82
ZPOPMIN per Second 49,115.91 65,189.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 37,993.92 35,075.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 24,746.35 14,297.97
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 18,086.45 10,139.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 16,278.69 8,959.77
MSET (10 keys) per Second 48,947.62 50,761.42

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.650.70
PING_MBULK0.630.53
SET0.650.56
GET0.650.65
INCR0.660.56
LPUSH0.640.56
RPUSH0.650.61
LPOP0.640.62
RPOP0.640.60
SADD0.650.54
HSET0.660.56
SPOP0.640.58
ZADD0.650.55
ZPOPMIN0.640.48
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.830.95
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.312.25
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.683.16
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.913.47
MSET (10 keys)0.690.79

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB) instance outperforms the Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB) in most benchmarks, particularly in CPU events per second (999.67 vs. 4233.82) and Redis RPS (Redis requests per second) metrics, such as LPUSH (64,267.35 vs. 49,164.21). However, the AMD instance excels in MySQL bulk insert transactions per second (235,298.19 vs. 117,769.09). For applications prioritizing high CPU performance and Redis operations, the Intel instance is superior, while for those favoring MySQL performance, the AMD instance is the better choice.

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