Vultr recently released a whole new product line to go along with their brand new website and logo. The new product line is high frequency CPU (think 3.6ghz and higher), backed by NVMe storage. Obviously, we had to take it for a spin to see if it lives up to the hype. Here is the official announcement.
It’s hard to believe Vultr was introduced way back in February 2014. Since then, we’ve deployed over 23 million instances in 16 data centers and the Vultr team has worked hard to make worldwide infrastructure management easy for all users - ranging from small developers to large enterprises. Today, we are delighted to reveal our brand new high frequency compute lineup and our new design for Vultr.com!
Introducing the new Vultr.com logo!
While we loved the style of the previous logo, our team was ready for a fresh new look that accurately depicts the enterprise platform Vultr is today. After going back and forth through many iterations, our design team settled on a refreshed look that is more distinctive and easily recognizable in both print and digital formats. We hope you love the updated look as much as we do! Our updated brand assets page makes multiple versions of the updated logo available for download.More Powerful Compute
We are also excited to share the latest product in our cloud lineup - high frequency compute! Powered by 3+ Ghz processors and blazing fast NVME storage, this newest plan is the highest performance hardware architecture Vultr has ever offered. High Frequency compute powers the most demanding workloads with storage and processing benchmarks that exceed standard compute by up to 40%!
High Frequency compute is initially available in New Jersey and will be available worldwide later this summer! Read more about high frequency compute or deploy an instance today!
On with the benchmarks, starting with our usual bench.sh script. As of this writing, the high frequncy servers are only available in the New York datacenter. We fired up the 1GB server, that comes with 1vCPU and 32GB of NVMe storage. As you can see from the bench.sh runs below, the server we were issued is clocked at 3.8ghz, which is nothing to sneeze at. The disk performs as expected for NVMe based storage, with the averages being well into the 900MB/sec
Run 1.
CPU model : Virtual CPU 6db7dc0e7704
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 3792.000 MHz
Total size of Disk : 32.0 GB (1.9 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 992 MB (38 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 7 min
Load average : 0.02, 0.02, 0.00
OS : Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.4.0-148-generic
I/O speed(1st run) : 782 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 998 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 1.0 GB/s
Average I/O speed : 934.7 MB/s
Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 85.2MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP 106.187.96.148 13.1MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 9.24MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 29.3MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 25.3MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 30.0MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 33.8MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 26.4MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 10.3MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 6.78MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 7.49MB/s
Run 2
CPU model : Virtual CPU 6db7dc0e7704
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 3792.000 MHz
Total size of Disk : 32.0 GB (2.0 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 992 MB (38 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 13 min
Load average : 0.00, 0.04, 0.00
OS : Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.4.0-148-genericI/O speed(1st run) : 772 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 1.0 GB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 1.0 GB/s
Average I/O speed : 940.0 MB/sNode Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 119MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP 106.187.96.148 12.7MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 8.93MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 28.0MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 26.1MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 25.2MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 35.3MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 27.2MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 7.60MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 6.73MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 7.85MB/s
Run 3
CPU model : Virtual CPU 6db7dc0e7704
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 3792.000 MHz
Total size of Disk : 32.0 GB (2.0 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 992 MB (38 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 0 hour 15 min
Load average : 0.04, 0.04, 0.00
OS : Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.4.0-148-genericI/O speed(1st run) : 773 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 1.1 GB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 1.0 GB/s
Average I/O speed : 974.5 MB/sNode Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 111MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP 106.187.96.148 13.2MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 8.96MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 33.0MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 26.7MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 31.9MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 36.0MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 23.9MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 8.16MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 7.04MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 7.78MB/s
Speedtest-cli test.
These tests do not seem to be very valid for this particular VPS, as the speedtest node is actually hosted by Vultr, so the numbers are whacky.
root@vultr:/tmp/speedtest-cli-master# speedtest-cli --share
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Testing from Choopa, LLC (45.77.221.62)…
Retrieving speedtest.net server list…
Selecting best server based on ping…
Hosted by Vultr (Matawan, NJ) [24.71 km]: 1.118 ms
Testing download speed…
Download: 8175.50 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed…
Upload: 5845.81 Mbit/s
Share results: Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test
root@vultr:/tmp/speedtest-cli-master# speedtest-cli --share
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Testing from Choopa, LLC (45.77.221.62)…
Retrieving speedtest.net server list…
Selecting best server based on ping…
Hosted by Vultr (Matawan, NJ) [24.71 km]: 0.871 ms
Testing download speed…
Download: 7580.49 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed…
Upload: 5019.10 Mbit/s
Share results: Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test
root@vultr:/tmp/speedtest-cli-master# speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Testing from Choopa, LLC (45.77.221.62)…
Retrieving speedtest.net server list…
Selecting best server based on ping…
Hosted by Vultr (Matawan, NJ) [24.71 km]: 0.874 ms
Testing download speed…
Download: 7662.64 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed…
Upload: 6986.18 Mbit/s
root@vultr:/tmp/speedtest-cli-master# speedtest-cli --share
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Testing from Choopa, LLC (45.77.221.62)…
Retrieving speedtest.net server list…
Selecting best server based on ping…
Hosted by Vultr (Matawan, NJ) [24.71 km]: 0.839 ms
Testing download speed…
Download: 7660.60 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed…
Upload: 5848.24 Mbit/s
Now onto our beloved Geekbench benchmark.
QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Single-Core Score Multi-Core Score 5218 4956 Geekbench 4.3.3 Tryout for Linux x86 (64-bit) Result Information
Upload Date June 16 2019 06:00 PM Views 1 System Information
System Information Operating System Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS 4.4.0-148-generic x86_64 Model QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) Motherboard N/A Memory 992 MB BIOS SeaBIOS rel-1.12.0-0-ga698c8995f-prebuilt.qemu.org
Processor Information Name Virtual 6db7dc0e7704 Topology 1 Processor, 1 Core Identifier GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3 Base Frequency 3.79 GHz L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB x 1 L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB x 1 L2 Cache 4.00 MB x 1 L3 Cache 16.0 MB x 1 Single-Core Performance
Single-Core Score 5218 Crypto Score 4334 Integer Score 5255 Floating Point Score 4999 Memory Score 5683 AES 4334 3.26 GB/sec LZMA 4138 6.46 MB/sec JPEG 4829 38.9 Mpixels/sec Canny 4999 69.3 Mpixels/sec Lua 5293 5.44 MB/sec Dijkstra 6225 4.21 MTE/sec SQLite 5150 142.8 Krows/sec HTML5 Parse 5553 25.2 MB/sec HTML5 DOM 4286 3.88 MElements/sec Histogram Equalization 4600 143.7 Mpixels/sec PDF Rendering 5920 157.3 Mpixels/sec LLVM 8841 607.9 functions/sec Camera 4571 12.7 images/sec SGEMM 5009 105.9 Gflops SFFT 5442 13.6 Gflops N-Body Physics 4759 3.55 Mpairs/sec Ray Tracing 4109 600.1 Kpixels/sec Rigid Body Physics 4759 13934.1 FPS HDR 6054 21.9 Mpixels/sec Gaussian Blur 5202 91.1 Mpixels/sec Speech Recognition 5415 46.3 Words/sec Face Detection 4510 1.32 Msubwindows/sec Memory Copy 5257 14.6 GB/sec Memory Latency 6314 68.6 ns Memory Bandwidth 5531 29.5 GB/sec Multi-Core Performance
Multi-Core Score 4956 Crypto Score 4353 Integer Score 5244 Floating Point Score 4979 Memory Score 4424 AES 4353 3.28 GB/sec LZMA 4118 6.43 MB/sec JPEG 4764 38.3 Mpixels/sec Canny 4851 67.3 Mpixels/sec Lua 5324 5.47 MB/sec Dijkstra 6303 4.26 MTE/sec SQLite 5127 142.1 Krows/sec HTML5 Parse 5460 24.8 MB/sec HTML5 DOM 4462 4.04 MElements/sec Histogram Equalization 4597 143.6 Mpixels/sec PDF Rendering 5860 155.7 Mpixels/sec LLVM 8901 612.0 functions/sec Camera 4529 12.6 images/sec SGEMM 5021 106.1 Gflops SFFT 5500 13.7 Gflops N-Body Physics 4710 3.52 Mpairs/sec Ray Tracing 4054 592.0 Kpixels/sec Rigid Body Physics 4690 13729.7 FPS HDR 6058 22.0 Mpixels/sec Gaussian Blur 5272 92.4 Mpixels/sec Speech Recognition 5337 45.7 Words/sec Face Detection 4465 1.30 Msubwindows/sec Memory Copy 5287 14.6 GB/sec Memory Latency 3034 142.7 ns Memory Bandwidth 5401 28.8 GB/sec
Conclusions - with this VPS being only $1 more expensive than the $5 1Gb Digital Ocean droplet that we benchmarked here, to me it is a no brainer to spend the extra buck, to about %50 more performance from the CPU, and close to triple the performance on the disk.