How much does Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB) is $12.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 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 (2 GB)?

Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB) has 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 TB of monthly transfer for $12.00/mo.

Vultr High Performance Intel 2 GB ($12/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Fri, 29 May 2026 05:00:52 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	$12.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	50	60
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	4

CPU

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 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)	2,992.91	2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	5,985.82	5,799.98
Events per Second	1,206.19	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.81	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.83	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.29	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.86	0.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,591,991.42	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	5,460.93	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.35	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	5,491,481.81	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	5,362.78	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.3	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	5,227.24	5,114.79
Writes per Second	3,484.79	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	11,154.86	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	81.68	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	54.45	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.13	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.15	0.12

Mutex

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,435.85	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	1,442.52	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,448.85	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,453.01	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,395.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	83,950.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.05	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	1.19	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.6	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.5	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,371.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	93,710.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.75	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	1.07	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.46	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.42	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,792.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	37,920.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.09	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	2.63	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	9.19	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.3	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	17,044.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	170,440.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.41	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.58	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	9.77	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.77	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,463,217.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	14,632,170.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	329.56	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	229,529.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	2,295,290.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.24	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.06	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,518.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	75,180.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.41	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	1.33	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.71	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.73	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,093.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	80,930.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.5	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	1.23	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.17	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.64	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,757.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	167,570.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.41	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	0.6	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.52	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.84	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	17,303.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	173,030.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.4	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	0.58	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.22	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.77	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	149,834.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	1,498,340.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.02	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.12	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	49,043.65	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	49,850.45	57,903.88
SET per Second	47,915.67	57,703.40
GET per Second	48,638.13	57,703.40
INCR per Second	49,309.66	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	48,685.49	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	48,732.94	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	48,309.18	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	48,638.13	58,343.06
SADD per Second	48,030.74	58,241.12
HSET per Second	48,638.13	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	49,529.47	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	48,661.80	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	49,627.79	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	31,397.18	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	17,059.02	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	11,502.19	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	9,700.26	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	45,106.00	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.67	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.66	0.44
SET	0.69	0.45
GET	0.69	0.45
INCR	0.67	0.45
LPUSH	0.69	0.44
RPUSH	0.68	0.44
LPOP	0.69	0.44
RPOP	0.69	0.44
SADD	0.69	0.44
HSET	0.68	0.44
SPOP	0.66	0.44
ZADD	0.69	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.67	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.11	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.11	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.09	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.68	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.76	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance Intel instance demonstrates slightly better performance in single-core scenarios but has comparable performance in memory and file I/O benchmarks. The Vultr High Performance AMD instance excels in multi-threaded operations, showing significantly higher rates in Redis operations and multi-threaded CPU benchmarks. The Intel instance is better suited for workloads that benefit from single-core CPU performance and lower latency for memory operations, while the AMD instance is ideal for applications that require higher throughput in multi-threaded tasks, including Redis operations, database inserts, and general multi-threaded workloads. Both instances have similar storage and transfer options, with the AMD instance providing a slight edge in CPU benchmarks due to its dual-core configuration.

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