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.

How much does Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) is $48.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 180 GB NVMe of storage, and 6 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)?

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

Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD 8 GB, 4 Cores ($48/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT	Sat, 30 May 2026 23:00:52 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	$18.00	$48.00
RAM (GB)	2	8
CPU Cores	2	4
Storage (TB)	60	180
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	4	6

CPU

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,899.99	2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)	1,024.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	5,799.98	5,799.99
Events per Second	4,648.14	4,651.31
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.2	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.21	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.26	0.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.23	0.22

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	7,548,502.85	7,539,967.02
Mebibytes per second	7,371.58	7,363.25
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.08	0.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	7,544,807.09	7,548,797.16
Mebibytes per second	7,367.98	7,371.87
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.12	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second	5,114.79	7,813.30
Writes per Second	3,409.86	5,208.87
Fsyncs per Second	10,914.44	16,674.38
Read Mebibytes per Second	79.92	122.08
Written Mebibytes per Second	53.28	81.39
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.7	0.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.12	0.11

Mutex

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	574.03	163.69
Average Latency (ms)	637.47	303.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	663.74	365.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	657.93	363.18

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,622.00	9,620.00
Queries per second	96,220.00	96,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.73	0.79
Average Latency (ms)	1.04	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.22	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.12	1.16

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,585.00	8,700.00
Queries per second	95,850.00	87,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.8	0.84
Average Latency (ms)	1.04	1.15
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.18	7.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.32	1.34

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,686.00	4,664.00
Queries per second	46,860.00	46,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.57	1.63
Average Latency (ms)	2.13	2.14
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.26	4.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.52	2.57

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,965.00	13,911.00
Queries per second	159,650.00	139,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.45	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.72
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.23	2.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.74	0.89

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,065,092.00	2,715,592.00
Queries per second	30,650,920.00	27,155,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	208.51	213.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	217,035.00	219,615.00
Queries per second	2,170,350.00	2,196,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.02	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.61	0.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.06	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,818.00	14,319.00
Queries per second	148,180.00	143,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.24	0.23
Average Latency (ms)	0.67	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.94	3.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.86	0.9

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,341.00	13,994.00
Queries per second	143,410.00	139,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.27	0.23
Average Latency (ms)	0.7	0.71
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.67	1.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.89	0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,864.00	13,411.00
Queries per second	148,640.00	134,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.47	0.48
Average Latency (ms)	0.67	0.75
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.36	13.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.87	0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,284.00	13,309.00
Queries per second	152,840.00	133,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.46	0.49
Average Latency (ms)	0.65	0.75
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.65	3.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.83	0.94

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	151,536.00	144,026.00
Queries per second	1,515,360.00	1,440,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.02	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.83	2.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.08	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	55,991.04	68,119.89
PING_MBULK per Second	57,903.88	64,184.86
SET per Second	57,703.40	63,371.36
GET per Second	57,703.40	66,401.06
INCR per Second	57,372.34	62,305.30
LPUSH per Second	57,836.90	60,827.25
RPUSH per Second	58,173.36	67,114.09
LPOP per Second	58,343.06	63,613.23
RPOP per Second	58,343.06	67,340.07
SADD per Second	58,241.12	70,521.86
HSET per Second	58,858.15	66,401.06
SPOP per Second	58,892.82	62,695.92
ZADD per Second	57,504.31	58,685.45
ZPOPMIN per Second	57,870.37	57,971.02
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	49,236.83	55,586.44
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	34,818.94	35,026.27
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	26,766.60	26,357.41
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	24,207.21	23,906.29
MSET (10 keys) per Second	58,548.01	66,577.90

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.48	0.38
PING_MBULK	0.44	0.40
SET	0.45	0.41
GET	0.45	0.39
INCR	0.45	0.41
LPUSH	0.44	0.42
RPUSH	0.44	0.38
LPOP	0.44	0.41
RPOP	0.44	0.38
SADD	0.44	0.36
HSET	0.44	0.39
SPOP	0.44	0.41
ZADD	0.45	0.44
ZPOPMIN	0.44	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.53	0.46
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.74	0.75
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	0.95	0.98
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.05	1.10
MSET (10 keys)	0.44	0.39

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

In comparing the two Vultr instances, the "High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)" shows strong performance in Redis operations, achieving high requests per second with low latencies, and demonstrates solid CPU and memory handling capabilities, with particularly impressive file I/O performance and low latency for memory operations. The "High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)" instance also excels in Redis benchmarks with slightly higher requests per second and slightly lower latencies, and it outperforms in CPU handling, showing more throughput and better file I/O capabilities. For CPU-intensive and memory-intensive workloads, the larger configuration with more cores and RAM is superior, while for scenarios focusing on lower latency and high throughput in file I/O operations, the smaller instance is a compelling choice. Therefore, choose the 8 GB, 4 Cores instance for demanding multi-threaded applications and the 2 GB, 2 Cores instance for tasks prioritizing high-speed data handling and lower latency in file operations.

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Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)