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

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Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:47 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 $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 (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Tie
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB) takes 3 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) 2,893.21 2,893.21
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 5,786.41 5,786.41
Events per Second 996.04 1,011.48
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.9 0.89
Average Latency (ms) 1 0.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.28 2.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.23 1.25

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 5,033,336.75 5,186,399.33
Mebibytes per second 4,915.37 5,064.84
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.35 0.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 4,974,126.38 5,103,338.99
Mebibytes per second 4,857.55 4,983.73
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.06 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 3,864.86 3,831.53
Writes per Second 2,576.57 2,554.36
Fsyncs per Second 8,249.51 8,179.23
Read Mebibytes per Second 60.39 59.87
Written Mebibytes per Second 40.26 39.91
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.72 2.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.21

Mutex

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,702.68 1,735.94
Average Latency (ms) 1,717.74 1,756.88
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,727.27 1,766.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,739.68 1,771.29

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 8,943.00 8,164.00
Queries per second 89,430.00 81,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.96 0.99
Average Latency (ms) 1.12 1.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.78 7.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.64 1.67

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 9,273.00 10,122.00
Queries per second 92,730.00 101,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.74 0.72
Average Latency (ms) 1.08 0.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.47 8.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.52 1.37

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,689.00 3,490.00
Queries per second 36,890.00 34,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.93 1.98
Average Latency (ms) 2.71 2.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.82 12.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.62 4.03

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 16,491.00 15,691.00
Queries per second 164,910.00 156,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.6 0.63
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.12 6.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.8 0.87

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,142,842.00 1,084,592.00
Queries per second 11,428,420.00 10,845,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 468.26 581.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 244,994.00 225,553.00
Queries per second 2,449,940.00 2,255,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.03 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.32 1.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,118.00 5,528.00
Queries per second 51,180.00 55,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.56 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 1.95 1.81
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.93 5.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 2.52

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 7,171.00 7,887.00
Queries per second 71,710.00 78,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.47 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 1.39 1.27
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.2 7.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.52 1.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 16,059.00 16,393.00
Queries per second 160,590.00 163,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.42 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.62 0.61
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.27 5.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.9 0.84

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 17,224.00 17,497.00
Queries per second 172,240.00 174,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 0.58 0.57
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.78 4.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.74 0.74

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 153,176.00 145,609.00
Queries per second 1,531,760.00 1,456,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.03 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.21 4.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.12

Redis

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 63,331.22 64,892.93
PING_MBULK per Second 66,357.00 69,108.50
SET per Second 64,020.48 69,735.01
GET per Second 65,789.48 70,821.53
INCR per Second 62,814.07 63,371.36
LPUSH per Second 64,557.78 61,576.36
RPUSH per Second 62,972.29 64,808.82
LPOP per Second 63,816.21 61,842.92
RPOP per Second 59,382.42 61,312.08
SADD per Second 61,842.92 63,411.54
HSET per Second 61,162.08 63,331.22
SPOP per Second 63,251.11 63,371.36
ZADD per Second 62,617.41 63,979.53
ZPOPMIN per Second 63,211.12 65,231.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 35,997.12 36,456.43
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 17,528.48 17,639.79
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 11,993.28 11,498.22
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 9,791.44 9,613.54
MSET (10 keys) per Second 54,377.38 54,347.82

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.500.49
PING_MBULK0.470.46
SET0.500.46
GET0.480.45
INCR0.510.51
LPUSH0.500.52
RPUSH0.510.50
LPOP0.500.52
RPOP0.550.53
SADD0.520.50
HSET0.530.51
SPOP0.500.50
ZADD0.510.50
ZPOPMIN0.500.49
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.920.92
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.841.83
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.742.82
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.243.27
MSET (10 keys)0.740.72

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Performance Intel (2 GB) instance from Vultr wins overall, driven by superior Redis performance metrics such as higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies. For instance, in the SET command benchmark, the 2 GB instance achieved an rps of 69735.01 compared to 64020.48 for the 1 GB counterpart, demonstrating significantly better performance for CPU-intensive tasks. Therefore, this instance is highly recommended for applications requiring substantial CPU power and memory.

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