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

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:47 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:02 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-28-generic 7.0.0-28-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version 8.0.5 8.0.5
Location Newark, NJ Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $6.00 $12.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 50
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 3

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake) AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,992.91 2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 5,985.82 5,800.00
Events per Second 1,085.49 4,289.74
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.87 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 0.92 0.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.53 3.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.04 0.25

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,287,233.83 7,477,695.15
Mebibytes per second 5,163.31 7,302.44
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.53 0.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,446,064.29 7,480,195.03
Mebibytes per second 5,318.42 7,304.88
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second 3,945.14 3,878.89
Writes per Second 2,630.10 2,585.89
Fsyncs per Second 8,418.81 8,276.45
Read Mebibytes per Second 61.64 60.61
Written Mebibytes per Second 41.10 40.40
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.96 2.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.19

Mutex

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,674.69 1,267.92
Average Latency (ms) 1,689.62 1,275.63
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,697.70 1,281.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,708.63 1,280.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,332.00 14,172.00
Queries per second 93,320.00 141,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.93 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 1.07 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.52 3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.32 0.78

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,031.00 12,730.00
Queries per second 110,310.00 127,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.69 0.62
Average Latency (ms) 0.9 0.78
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.47 4.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.23 0.94

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,749.00 6,314.00
Queries per second 47,490.00 63,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.79 1.39
Average Latency (ms) 2.1 1.58
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.52 7.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.57 1.76

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 18,923.00 20,594.00
Queries per second 189,230.00 205,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.39
Average Latency (ms) 0.53 0.48
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.45 3.1
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.68 0.57

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,375,842.00 2,395,217.00
Queries per second 13,758,420.00 23,952,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 345.61 192.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 263,886.00 364,617.00
Queries per second 2,638,860.00 3,646,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.03 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.47 0.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,167.00 11,020.00
Queries per second 61,670.00 110,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.53 0.31
Average Latency (ms) 1.62 0.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.42 3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.11 1.18

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 8,650.00 14,569.00
Queries per second 86,500.00 145,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.43 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.15 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.4 2.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.52 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 18,825.00 19,450.00
Queries per second 188,250.00 194,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.4 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.53 0.51
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.88 10.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.69 0.61

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 19,241.00 19,900.00
Queries per second 192,410.00 199,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.52 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.64 10.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.65 0.59

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 200,203.00 265,546.00
Queries per second 2,002,030.00 2,655,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.03 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.61 2.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.08 0.06

Redis

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 70,472.16 48,146.37
PING_MBULK per Second 75,187.97 47,460.84
SET per Second 73,909.83 49,140.05
GET per Second 69,156.30 48,332.53
INCR per Second 59,952.04 47,080.98
LPUSH per Second 52,576.24 48,449.61
RPUSH per Second 68,634.18 47,961.63
LPOP per Second 59,171.59 46,794.57
RPOP per Second 53,219.80 47,103.16
SADD per Second 67,430.88 47,984.64
HSET per Second 63,734.86 47,961.63
SPOP per Second 43,859.65 46,838.41
ZADD per Second 43,365.13 48,947.62
ZPOPMIN per Second 49,285.36 47,619.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 36,982.25 38,226.30
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 19,992.00 24,906.60
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 12,827.09 18,073.38
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 10,901.56 16,404.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second 64,350.06 48,262.55

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.450.63
PING_MBULK0.420.63
SET0.440.63
GET0.460.62
INCR0.530.65
LPUSH0.610.64
RPUSH0.470.65
LPOP0.550.68
RPOP0.620.66
SADD0.470.64
HSET0.510.65
SPOP0.720.64
ZADD0.750.64
ZPOPMIN0.640.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.900.82
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.611.30
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.581.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.881.95
MSET (10 keys)0.610.69

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Performance Intel instance from Vultr outperforms the High Performance AMD instance, particularly in CPU benchmarks where it records higher events per second (1085 vs 4290) and lower average latency (0.92 ms vs 0.23 ms), indicating superior computational efficiency. While both instances have comparable file I/O performance, the Intel version excels in handling Redis operations with higher request per second (rps) rates in critical commands like SET, GET, and LPUSH. For users prioritizing CPU-intensive tasks or Redis operations, the Intel-based instance provides better performance and should be the preferred choice.

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