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

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:21 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:41:06 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-27-generic 7.0.0-27-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 Intel (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake) Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,893.20 2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 5,786.40 5,786.33
Events per Second 1,049.60 1,021.39
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.9 0.89
Average Latency (ms) 0.95 0.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.73 2.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 1.12

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,247,794.58 4,986,398.08
Mebibytes per second 5,124.80 4,869.53
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.07 0.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,230,407.37 5,001,584.28
Mebibytes per second 5,107.82 4,884.36
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.11 0.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 4,064.54 5,577.48
Writes per Second 2,709.66 3,718.32
Fsyncs per Second 8,672.51 11,911.32
Read Mebibytes per Second 63.51 87.15
Written Mebibytes per Second 42.34 58.10
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.95 5.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.19 0.15

Mutex

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,611.76 1,709.06
Average Latency (ms) 1,623.75 1,721.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,635.20 1,728.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,648.20 1,739.68

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 8,324.00 7,873.00
Queries per second 83,240.00 78,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.06 1.05
Average Latency (ms) 1.2 1.27
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.85 3.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.5 1.55

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,781.00 9,331.00
Queries per second 97,810.00 93,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.77 0.77
Average Latency (ms) 1.02 1.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.58 6.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.39 1.47

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,006.00 3,770.00
Queries per second 40,060.00 37,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.02 2.02
Average Latency (ms) 2.49 2.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.48 13.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 3.3

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 17,670.00 16,828.00
Queries per second 176,700.00 168,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 0.56 0.59
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.68 3.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.72 0.78

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,317,592.00 1,201,092.00
Queries per second 13,175,920.00 12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 320.74 343.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 214,470.00 197,771.00
Queries per second 2,144,700.00 1,977,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.23 2.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.07 0.08

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,913.00 5,632.00
Queries per second 59,130.00 56,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.53 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 1.69 1.77
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.4 5.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 2.35

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 8,048.00 7,779.00
Queries per second 80,480.00 77,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.5 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 1.24 1.28
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.52 3.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.7 1.73

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 17,291.00 17,005.00
Queries per second 172,910.00 170,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.44 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 0.58 0.59
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.39 4.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.75 0.81

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 18,069.00 17,369.00
Queries per second 180,690.00 173,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.55 0.57
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.51 3.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.7 0.75

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 154,947.00 137,403.00
Queries per second 1,549,470.00 1,374,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.7 1.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.14

Redis

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 45,766.59 44,563.28
PING_MBULK per Second 44,424.70 44,014.08
SET per Second 45,045.04 44,782.80
GET per Second 45,065.34 43,440.48
INCR per Second 46,663.56 42,553.19
LPUSH per Second 44,603.03 44,702.73
RPUSH per Second 46,146.75 44,014.08
LPOP per Second 44,903.46 42,863.27
RPOP per Second 44,523.60 43,047.79
SADD per Second 45,392.64 44,345.89
HSET per Second 46,468.40 43,917.44
SPOP per Second 47,036.69 43,554.01
ZADD per Second 45,682.96 44,052.86
ZPOPMIN per Second 45,871.56 44,523.60
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 31,387.32 29,239.77
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 17,470.30 16,025.64
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 12,192.15 11,116.05
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 10,672.36 9,961.15
MSET (10 keys) per Second 44,503.79 40,783.04

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.670.68
PING_MBULK0.670.67
SET0.680.68
GET0.680.69
INCR0.660.71
LPUSH0.690.68
RPUSH0.670.70
LPOP0.690.72
RPOP0.700.72
SADD0.680.69
HSET0.670.70
SPOP0.650.70
ZADD0.680.70
ZPOPMIN0.670.68
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.991.08
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.781.96
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.682.86
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.993.15
MSET (10 keys)0.750.80

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB) instance emerges as the overall winner due to its superior Redis benchmarks, particularly in the LRANGE_500 test, achieving 12,192.15 requests per second compared to the 2GB instance's 11,116.05. While both instances show similar CPU performance, the 1 GB instance provides slightly better Redis throughput, making it ideal for CPU-heavy tasks and applications requiring robust Redis performance, whereas the 2GB variant might appeal more to users needing additional memory resources for more demanding applications.

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