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

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT Thu, 28 May 2026 19:00:52 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 $18.00
RAM (GB) 2 2
CPU Cores 2 2
Storage (TB) 60 60
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 4 4

CPU

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,899.99 2,992.91
CPU Cache Size (KB) 1,024.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 5,799.98 5,985.82
Events per Second 4,648.14 1,187.62
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.2 0.81
Average Latency (ms) 0.21 0.84
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.26 2.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.23 0.9

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 7,548,502.85 5,533,703.60
Mebibytes per second 7,371.58 5,404.01
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.08 0.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 7,544,807.09 5,505,088.80
Mebibytes per second 7,367.98 5,376.06
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.12 1.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 5,114.79 4,521.36
Writes per Second 3,409.86 3,014.24
Fsyncs per Second 10,914.44 9,651.47
Read Mebibytes per Second 79.92 70.65
Written Mebibytes per Second 53.28 47.10
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.7 2.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.12 0.17

Mutex

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 574.03 786.47
Average Latency (ms) 637.47 840.34
Maximum Latency (ms) 663.74 902.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 657.93 909.80

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 9,622.00 7,827.00
Queries per second 96,220.00 78,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.73 1.06
Average Latency (ms) 1.04 1.28
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.22 6.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 1.67

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 9,585.00 8,553.00
Queries per second 95,850.00 85,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.8 0.76
Average Latency (ms) 1.04 1.17
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.18 5.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.32 1.64

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,686.00 4,001.00
Queries per second 46,860.00 40,010.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.57 1.95
Average Latency (ms) 2.13 2.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.26 12.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.52 3.19

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 15,965.00 15,620.00
Queries per second 159,650.00 156,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.45 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.62 0.64
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.23 7.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.74 0.87

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 3,065,092.00 1,667,092.00
Queries per second 30,650,920.00 16,670,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 208.51 301.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 217,035.00 199,934.00
Queries per second 2,170,350.00 1,999,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.02 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.61 0.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 14,818.00 7,539.00
Queries per second 148,180.00 75,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.24 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.67 1.32
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.94 4.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.86 1.76

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 14,341.00 7,695.00
Queries per second 143,410.00 76,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.27 0.46
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 1.3
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.67 3.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.89 1.79

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 14,864.00 14,916.00
Queries per second 148,640.00 149,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.47 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.67 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.36 2.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.87 0.99

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 15,284.00 15,251.00
Queries per second 152,840.00 152,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.46 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.65 0.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.65 13.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.83 0.9

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 151,536.00 134,991.00
Queries per second 1,515,360.00 1,349,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.02 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.83 4.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.08 0.1

Redis

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 55,991.04 64,020.48
PING_MBULK per Second 57,903.88 63,451.78
SET per Second 57,703.40 63,979.53
GET per Second 57,703.40 67,069.08
INCR per Second 57,372.34 66,622.25
LPUSH per Second 57,836.90 66,800.27
RPUSH per Second 58,173.36 66,093.85
LPOP per Second 58,343.06 68,352.70
RPOP per Second 58,343.06 67,521.95
SADD per Second 58,241.12 67,204.30
HSET per Second 58,858.15 67,430.88
SPOP per Second 58,892.82 66,181.34
ZADD per Second 57,504.31 66,050.20
ZPOPMIN per Second 57,870.37 67,613.25
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 49,236.83 48,923.68
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 34,818.94 28,620.49
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 26,766.60 20,120.72
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 24,207.21 17,190.99
MSET (10 keys) per Second 58,548.01 66,313.00

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.480.41
PING_MBULK0.440.41
SET0.450.41
GET0.450.38
INCR0.450.39
LPUSH0.440.39
RPUSH0.440.39
LPOP0.440.39
RPOP0.440.38
SADD0.440.39
HSET0.440.38
SPOP0.440.39
ZADD0.450.39
ZPOPMIN0.440.38
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.530.55
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)0.740.97
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)0.951.43
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.051.66
MSET (10 keys)0.440.39

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

When comparing the Vultr High Performance AMD and Intel instances, the Intel version outperforms the AMD in nearly all benchmarks. The Intel instance achieves higher request per second (rps) rates for various Redis operations and shows lower average latencies across the board, indicating better performance for tasks like database operations and memory management. While both instances perform similarly in CPU and file I/O benchmarks, the Intel instance's superior Redis throughput and lower latencies suggest it's better suited for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads, particularly those relying heavily on in-memory data stores like Redis. Conversely, the AMD instance, despite slightly lower overall performance metrics, could still be adequate for less demanding applications where the cost savings or other non-performance factors are a priority.

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