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

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:47 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:02 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-29-generic 7.0.0-29-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
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 AMD (2 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 5 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-Milan Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,893.21 2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 512.00
BogoMips 5,786.41 5,800.00
Events per Second 996.04 4,236.14
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.9 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1 0.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.28 2.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.23 0.26

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,033,336.75 7,367,539.15
Mebibytes per second 4,915.37 7,194.86
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.35 0.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 4,974,126.38 7,232,726.42
Mebibytes per second 4,857.55 7,063.21
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.06 0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second 3,864.86 4,910.99
Writes per Second 2,576.57 3,273.99
Fsyncs per Second 8,249.51 10,478.27
Read Mebibytes per Second 60.39 76.73
Written Mebibytes per Second 40.26 51.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.72 6.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.12

Mutex

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,702.68 1,266.97
Average Latency (ms) 1,717.74 1,276.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,727.27 1,287.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,739.68 1,280.93

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 8,943.00 13,615.00
Queries per second 89,430.00 136,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.96 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 1.12 0.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.78 2.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.64 0.84

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,273.00 12,081.00
Queries per second 92,730.00 120,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.74 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 1.08 0.83
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.47 9.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.52 0.95

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,689.00 5,846.00
Queries per second 36,890.00 58,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.93 1.42
Average Latency (ms) 2.71 1.71
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.82 9.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.62 1.93

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 16,491.00 18,517.00
Queries per second 164,910.00 185,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.6 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.12 7.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.8 0.63

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,142,842.00 2,249,592.00
Queries per second 11,428,420.00 22,495,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 468.26 194.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 244,994.00 360,565.00
Queries per second 2,449,940.00 3,605,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.03 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.32 0.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,118.00 11,291.00
Queries per second 51,180.00 112,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.56 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.95 0.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.93 2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 1.14

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,171.00 13,877.00
Queries per second 71,710.00 138,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.47 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 1.39 0.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.2 1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.52 0.94

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 16,059.00 18,476.00
Queries per second 160,590.00 184,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 0.62 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.27 11.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.9 0.64

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 17,224.00 18,856.00
Queries per second 172,240.00 188,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.44
Average Latency (ms) 0.58 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.78 7.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.74 0.61

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 153,176.00 235,558.00
Queries per second 1,531,760.00 2,355,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.03 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.21 6.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.07

Redis

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 63,331.22 46,490.00
PING_MBULK per Second 66,357.00 46,253.47
SET per Second 64,020.48 47,258.98
GET per Second 65,789.48 47,103.16
INCR per Second 62,814.07 47,415.84
LPUSH per Second 64,557.78 47,961.63
RPUSH per Second 62,972.29 47,573.74
LPOP per Second 63,816.21 45,766.59
RPOP per Second 59,382.42 47,869.79
SADD per Second 61,842.92 47,528.52
HSET per Second 61,162.08 47,460.84
SPOP per Second 63,251.11 46,360.68
ZADD per Second 62,617.41 47,869.79
ZPOPMIN per Second 63,211.12 47,619.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 35,997.12 37,693.18
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 17,528.48 23,980.81
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 11,993.28 17,208.74
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 9,791.44 16,358.58
MSET (10 keys) per Second 54,377.38 47,236.65

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.500.66
PING_MBULK0.470.65
SET0.500.66
GET0.480.66
INCR0.510.66
LPUSH0.500.66
RPUSH0.510.66
LPOP0.500.69
RPOP0.550.66
SADD0.520.65
HSET0.530.66
SPOP0.500.66
ZADD0.510.66
ZPOPMIN0.500.65
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.920.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.841.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.741.78
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.241.89
MSET (10 keys)0.740.71

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Performance Intel (1 GB) instance from Vultr outperforms the High Performance AMD (2 GB) in most benchmarks, particularly in Redis operations where it achieves higher requests per second (rps) with lower latencies, and in CPU events per second, indicating superior processing capabilities. The Intel instance is a better choice for CPU-heavy workloads, while the AMD instance excels in bulk MySQL inserts and offers higher memory transfer rates, making it more suitable for memory-intensive tasks.

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