How much does Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB) is $6.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 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 Performance Intel (1 GB)?

Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB) has 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 TB of monthly transfer for $6.00/mo.

Vultr High Performance Intel 1 GB ($6/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up brand new instance from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 30 May 2026 16:00:52 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	$6.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	1	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	25	60
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	4

CPU

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,893.17	2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	5,786.33	5,799.98
Events per Second	1,117.86	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.83	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.89	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.92	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.04	0.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	4,957,996.46	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	4,841.79	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.83	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	4,994,957.56	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	4,877.89	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.96	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,047.78	5,114.79
Writes per Second	2,698.52	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	8,646.86	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	63.25	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	42.16	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.35	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.19	0.12

Mutex

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,571.60	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	1,588.95	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,599.96	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,589.90	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,137.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	81,370.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.08	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	1.23	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.86	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.42	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,462.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	74,620.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.77	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	1.34	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.26	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.93	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,070.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	30,700.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.45	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	3.25	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.6	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.18	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,069.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	150,690.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.43	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.66	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.39	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.87	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	964,103.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	9,641,030.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	458.6	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	213,306.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	2,133,060.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.3	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,672.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	56,720.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.58	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	1.76	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.16	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.52	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,910.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	79,100.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.43	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	1.26	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.43	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.67	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	13,874.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	138,740.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.43	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	0.72	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.49	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.08	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,344.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	153,440.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	0.65	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.43	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.86	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	83,214.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	832,140.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.12	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.88	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.31	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	45,998.16	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	46,210.72	57,903.88
SET per Second	48,756.70	57,703.40
GET per Second	47,014.57	57,703.40
INCR per Second	46,707.14	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	46,296.29	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	45,248.87	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	47,551.12	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	47,573.74	58,343.06
SADD per Second	46,794.57	58,241.12
HSET per Second	42,662.11	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	46,794.57	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	45,433.89	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	46,296.29	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	24,260.07	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	14,120.31	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	9,612.61	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	8,560.91	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	43,859.65	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.71	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.70	0.44
SET	0.68	0.45
GET	0.70	0.45
INCR	0.71	0.45
LPUSH	0.72	0.44
RPUSH	0.73	0.44
LPOP	0.70	0.44
RPOP	0.70	0.44
SADD	0.70	0.44
HSET	0.76	0.44
SPOP	0.70	0.44
ZADD	0.72	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.70	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.42	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.51	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.69	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	4.14	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.78	0.44

Conclusion

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Analyzing the benchmark data for both Vultr instances reveals that the AMD-based High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance generally outperforms the Intel-based High Performance Intel (1 GB) in most metrics. The AMD instance achieves higher requests per second (rps) in Redis operations and better average latencies across various commands, indicating superior single-threaded and multi-threaded performance. The AMD instance also demonstrates higher file I/O throughput and better MySQL performance, with faster bulk inserts and OLTP operations. While both instances perform well, the AMD-based instance's superior metrics in CPU, memory, and I/O operations suggest it is better suited for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads, making it ideal for applications that benefit from multi-core processing and high data throughput, whereas the Intel-based instance, despite its lower cost, might be more appropriate for simpler, less demanding applications.

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