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

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I've got brand new instances from Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:02 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:13:32 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 $12.00 $12.00
RAM (GB) 2 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 50 50
Storage Type NVMe NVMe
Transfer (TB) 3 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 (2 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 AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC-Milan Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,900.00 2,893.21
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 5,800.00 5,786.41
Events per Second 4,236.14 1,011.48
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.22 0.89
Average Latency (ms) 0.24 0.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.34 2.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.26 1.25

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,367,539.15 5,186,399.33
Mebibytes per second 7,194.86 5,064.84
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.51 0.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,232,726.42 5,103,338.99
Mebibytes per second 7,063.21 4,983.73
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.81 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 4,910.99 3,831.53
Writes per Second 3,273.99 2,554.36
Fsyncs per Second 10,478.27 8,179.23
Read Mebibytes per Second 76.73 59.87
Written Mebibytes per Second 51.16 39.91
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.86 2.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.12 0.21

Mutex

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,266.97 1,735.94
Average Latency (ms) 1,276.36 1,756.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,287.38 1,766.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,280.93 1,771.29

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 13,615.00 8,164.00
Queries per second 136,150.00 81,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.99
Average Latency (ms) 0.73 1.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.51 7.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.84 1.67

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 12,081.00 10,122.00
Queries per second 120,810.00 101,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.64 0.72
Average Latency (ms) 0.83 0.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.17 8.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.95 1.37

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,846.00 3,490.00
Queries per second 58,460.00 34,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.42 1.98
Average Latency (ms) 1.71 2.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.83 12.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.93 4.03

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 18,517.00 15,691.00
Queries per second 185,170.00 156,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.54 0.63
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.24 6.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.63 0.87

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,249,592.00 1,084,592.00
Queries per second 22,495,920.00 10,845,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 194.18 581.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 360,565.00 225,553.00
Queries per second 3,605,650.00 2,255,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.02 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.03 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.81 1.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.04 0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,291.00 5,528.00
Queries per second 112,910.00 55,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.22 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 0.88 1.81
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.32 5.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.14 2.52

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 13,877.00 7,887.00
Queries per second 138,770.00 78,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.24 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.72 1.27
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.67 7.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.94 1.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 18,476.00 16,393.00
Queries per second 184,760.00 163,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.43 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.54 0.61
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.13 5.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.64 0.84

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 18,856.00 17,497.00
Queries per second 188,560.00 174,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.44 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.53 0.57
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.71 4.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.61 0.74

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 235,558.00 145,609.00
Queries per second 2,355,580.00 1,456,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.02 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.96 4.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.07 0.12

Redis

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 46,490.00 64,892.93
PING_MBULK per Second 46,253.47 69,108.50
SET per Second 47,258.98 69,735.01
GET per Second 47,103.16 70,821.53
INCR per Second 47,415.84 63,371.36
LPUSH per Second 47,961.63 61,576.36
RPUSH per Second 47,573.74 64,808.82
LPOP per Second 45,766.59 61,842.92
RPOP per Second 47,869.79 61,312.08
SADD per Second 47,528.52 63,411.54
HSET per Second 47,460.84 63,331.22
SPOP per Second 46,360.68 63,371.36
ZADD per Second 47,869.79 63,979.53
ZPOPMIN per Second 47,619.05 65,231.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 37,693.18 36,456.43
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 23,980.81 17,639.79
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 17,208.74 11,498.22
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 16,358.58 9,613.54
MSET (10 keys) per Second 47,236.65 54,347.82

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.660.49
PING_MBULK0.650.46
SET0.660.46
GET0.660.45
INCR0.660.51
LPUSH0.660.52
RPUSH0.660.50
LPOP0.690.52
RPOP0.660.53
SADD0.650.50
HSET0.660.51
SPOP0.660.50
ZADD0.660.50
ZPOPMIN0.650.49
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.840.92
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.351.83
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.782.82
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.893.27
MSET (10 keys)0.710.72

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Performance Intel (2 GB) instance from Vultr outperforms the High Performance AMD (2 GB) in most benchmarks. Notably, the Intel instance achieves higher RPS rates for Redis operations like "SET" (69,735 RPS vs 47,259 RPS) and "GET" (70,822 RPS vs 47,103 RPS), indicating superior processing capabilities. However, both instances provide similar low latencies, ensuring quick response times. This Intel instance is ideal for CPU-intensive tasks and applications requiring high throughput and low latency, such as real-time data processing and high-frequency trading systems.

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