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

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Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. 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. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:02 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:13:32 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 $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 Intel (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 4 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,900.00 2,893.21
CPU Cache Size (KB) 1,024.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 5,800.00 5,786.41
Events per Second 4,289.74 999.67
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.22 0.9
Average Latency (ms) 0.23 1
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.69 2.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.25 1.23

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,477,695.15 4,899,364.23
Mebibytes per second 7,302.44 4,784.54
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.24 0.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 7,480,195.03 4,958,374.18
Mebibytes per second 7,304.88 4,842.16
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.26 1.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 3,878.89 3,921.65
Writes per Second 2,585.89 2,614.43
Fsyncs per Second 8,276.45 8,376.78
Read Mebibytes per Second 60.61 61.28
Written Mebibytes per Second 40.40 40.85
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.04 5.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.19 0.2

Mutex

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,267.92 1,859.93
Average Latency (ms) 1,275.63 1,885.81
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,281.79 1,898.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,280.93 1,903.57

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 14,172.00 9,027.00
Queries per second 141,720.00 90,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.64 0.96
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 1.11
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.22 2.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.78 1.44

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 12,730.00 8,431.00
Queries per second 127,300.00 84,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.62 0.75
Average Latency (ms) 0.78 1.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.66 9.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.94 1.76

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,314.00 3,610.00
Queries per second 63,140.00 36,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.39 2
Average Latency (ms) 1.58 2.77
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.43 15.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.76 3.75

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 20,594.00 14,727.00
Queries per second 205,940.00 147,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.48 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.1 4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.57 0.94

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,395,217.00 1,201,092.00
Queries per second 23,952,170.00 12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 192.09 387.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 364,617.00 228,161.00
Queries per second 3,646,170.00 2,281,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.02 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.03 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.91 1.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.04 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 11,020.00 4,700.00
Queries per second 110,200.00 47,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.31 0.78
Average Latency (ms) 0.91 2.12
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.29 9.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.18 3.3

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 14,569.00 7,069.00
Queries per second 145,690.00 70,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.22 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 0.69 1.41
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.01 4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.89 2.26

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 19,450.00 15,156.00
Queries per second 194,500.00 151,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.51 0.66
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.16 5.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.61 0.95

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 19,900.00 15,180.00
Queries per second 199,000.00 151,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.4 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.5 0.66
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.32 3.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.59 0.9

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 265,546.00 149,333.00
Queries per second 2,655,460.00 1,493,330.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.02 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.58 2.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.12

Redis

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 48,146.37 45,998.16
PING_MBULK per Second 47,460.84 59,916.12
SET per Second 49,140.05 57,438.25
GET per Second 48,332.53 50,581.69
INCR per Second 47,080.98 57,240.98
LPUSH per Second 48,449.61 57,306.59
RPUSH per Second 47,961.63 52,631.58
LPOP per Second 46,794.57 52,854.12
RPOP per Second 47,103.16 54,794.52
SADD per Second 47,984.64 59,382.42
HSET per Second 47,961.63 57,636.89
SPOP per Second 46,838.41 54,854.64
ZADD per Second 48,947.62 58,892.82
ZPOPMIN per Second 47,619.05 65,189.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 38,226.30 35,075.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 24,906.60 14,297.97
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 18,073.38 10,139.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 16,404.20 8,959.77
MSET (10 keys) per Second 48,262.55 50,761.42

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.630.70
PING_MBULK0.630.53
SET0.630.56
GET0.620.65
INCR0.650.56
LPUSH0.640.56
RPUSH0.650.61
LPOP0.680.62
RPOP0.660.60
SADD0.640.54
HSET0.650.56
SPOP0.640.58
ZADD0.640.55
ZPOPMIN0.630.48
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.820.95
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.302.25
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)1.693.16
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)1.953.47
MSET (10 keys)0.690.79

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance AMD instance edges out the High Performance Intel instance in overall performance based on the provided benchmarks. The AMD instance demonstrates superior Redis benchmark scores, with notably higher request per second (rps) metrics such as 48146.37 for PING_INLINE compared to 45998.16 for the Intel instance. Moreover, MySQL bulk insert performance is also stronger on the AMD instance with 238318.6 transactions per second (tps) compared to the Intel's 117769.09 tps. For applications demanding high CPU throughput and low latency for database operations, the AMD instance is the better choice.

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