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 Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (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 Intel 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. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 03:00:52 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 Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	GenuineIntel
Model Name	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,899.99	2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB)	1,024.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	5,799.98	5,786.33
Events per Second	4,648.14	1,164.11
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.2	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	0.21	0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.26	1.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.23	0.9

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	7,548,502.85	5,268,671.27
Mebibytes per second	7,371.58	5,145.19
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.08	0.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	7,544,807.09	5,300,398.23
Mebibytes per second	7,367.98	5,176.17
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.12	0.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second	5,114.79	8,120.73
Writes per Second	3,409.86	5,413.82
Fsyncs per Second	10,914.44	17,334.39
Read Mebibytes per Second	79.92	126.89
Written Mebibytes per Second	53.28	84.59
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.7	16.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.12	0.1

Mutex

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	574.03	197.88
Average Latency (ms)	637.47	357.16
Maximum Latency (ms)	663.74	411.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	657.93	411.96

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,622.00	7,388.00
Queries per second	96,220.00	73,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.73	1.14
Average Latency (ms)	1.04	1.35
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.22	3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.12	1.7

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,585.00	7,997.00
Queries per second	95,850.00	79,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.8	0.87
Average Latency (ms)	1.04	1.25
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.18	3.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.32	1.55

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,686.00	3,262.00
Queries per second	46,860.00	32,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.57	2.17
Average Latency (ms)	2.13	3.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.26	7.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.52	3.82

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,965.00	12,898.00
Queries per second	159,650.00	128,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.45	0.44
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.77
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.23	11.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.74	1.04

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,065,092.00	1,434,092.00
Queries per second	30,650,920.00	14,340,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	208.51	363.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	217,035.00	190,206.00
Queries per second	2,170,350.00	1,902,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.02	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.61	2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.06	0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,818.00	6,349.00
Queries per second	148,180.00	63,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.24	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	0.67	1.57
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.94	3.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.86	2.11

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,341.00	7,578.00
Queries per second	143,410.00	75,780.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.27	0.33
Average Latency (ms)	0.7	1.32
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.67	3.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.89	1.79

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,864.00	12,520.00
Queries per second	148,640.00	125,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.47	0.44
Average Latency (ms)	0.67	0.8
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.36	3.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.87	1.06

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,284.00	13,084.00
Queries per second	152,840.00	130,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.46	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.65	0.76
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.65	4.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.83	0.99

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	151,536.00	116,263.00
Queries per second	1,515,360.00	1,162,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.02	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.83	3.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.08	0.12

Redis

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	55,991.04	53,022.27
PING_MBULK per Second	57,903.88	58,139.54
SET per Second	57,703.40	58,309.04
GET per Second	57,703.40	59,453.03
INCR per Second	57,372.34	60,024.01
LPUSH per Second	57,836.90	58,997.05
RPUSH per Second	58,173.36	59,916.12
LPOP per Second	58,343.06	60,938.45
RPOP per Second	58,343.06	61,804.70
SADD per Second	58,241.12	62,189.05
HSET per Second	58,858.15	63,131.31
SPOP per Second	58,892.82	61,274.51
ZADD per Second	57,504.31	61,312.08
ZPOPMIN per Second	57,870.37	63,653.72
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	49,236.83	42,535.09
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	34,818.94	25,018.76
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	26,766.60	17,895.49
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	24,207.21	15,649.45
MSET (10 keys) per Second	58,548.01	61,199.51

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.48	0.49
PING_MBULK	0.44	0.44
SET	0.45	0.44
GET	0.45	0.43
INCR	0.45	0.43
LPUSH	0.44	0.44
RPUSH	0.44	0.43
LPOP	0.44	0.43
RPOP	0.44	0.42
SADD	0.44	0.47
HSET	0.44	0.45
SPOP	0.44	0.42
ZADD	0.45	0.43
ZPOPMIN	0.44	0.45
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.53	0.87
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.74	1.46
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	0.95	1.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.05	1.77
MSET (10 keys)	0.44	0.45

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the two Vultr instances, the High Performance Intel (4c, 8gb) generally outperforms the High Performance AMD (2c, 2gb) across various benchmarks, showcasing higher rates of operations per second in Redis commands, better CPU event handling, faster file I/O operations, and superior memory read/write speeds. This suggests that for workloads that benefit from multiple CPU cores and faster processing speeds, such as high-traffic web applications or database servers, the Intel instance would be the superior choice. Conversely, the AMD instance, while still competent, may be better suited for lighter workloads or scenarios where cost-effectiveness is a primary concern.

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