DigitalOcean Premium Intel (1 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB)
Last updated on August 1, 2026
My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean to run some benchmarks on. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:06:47 GMT
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:09:47 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
New York, NY
New York, NY
Monthly Price
$8.00
$7.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
35
25
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
1
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category Winner
CPU (events/sec) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Memory (read MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Disk I/O (MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) MySQL (read/write tps) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) Redis (GET/sec) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Value (CPU events per $/mo) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Premium-Intel
DO-Premium-AMD
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,100.00
1,996.25
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
512.00
BogoMips
4,199.99
3,992.49
Events per Second
2,013.81
1,324.09
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.48
0.64
Average Latency (ms)
0.5
0.75
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.98
3.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.53
0.81
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second
4,187,334.90
4,911,179.23
Mebibytes per second
4,089.19
4,796.07
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.12
0.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second
4,366,312.99
4,739,304.36
Mebibytes per second
4,263.98
4,628.23
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.45
0.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Reads per Second
2,182.02
1,630.22
Writes per Second
1,454.68
1,086.81
Fsyncs per Second
4,663.66
3,484.79
Read Mebibytes per Second
34.09
25.47
Written Mebibytes per Second
22.73
16.98
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.12
0.16
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.91
7.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.42
0.54
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,139.85
1,821.68
Average Latency (ms)
2,170.02
1,829.83
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,181.39
1,839.40
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,198.52
1,836.24
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
8,593.00
6,287.00
Queries per second
85,930.00
62,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.98
1.22
Average Latency (ms)
1.16
1.59
Maximum Latency (ms)
20.7
139.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.61
2
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,104.00
3,386.00
Queries per second
41,040.00
33,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.05
1.26
Average Latency (ms)
2.43
2.95
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.59
31.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.3
5.37
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,212.00
1,941.00
Queries per second
22,120.00
19,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.65
2.76
Average Latency (ms)
4.51
5.15
Maximum Latency (ms)
14.28
56.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.32
8.28
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,241.00
5,930.00
Queries per second
62,410.00
59,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.63
0.76
Average Latency (ms)
1.6
1.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
25.45
13.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
3.13
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,171,967.00
1,259,342.00
Queries per second
11,719,670.00
12,593,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
459.35
524.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
234,610.00
132,782.00
Queries per second
2,346,100.00
1,327,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.04
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.37
3.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.06
0.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,162.00
4,504.00
Queries per second
51,620.00
45,040.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.64
Average Latency (ms)
1.93
2.22
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.87
6.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.81
3.3
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,424.00
6,228.00
Queries per second
74,240.00
62,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.49
0.54
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
1.6
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.12
3.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.89
2.3
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,010.00
5,980.00
Queries per second
70,100.00
59,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.62
0.79
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
1.67
Maximum Latency (ms)
37.55
36.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.3
2.81
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,487.00
6,226.00
Queries per second
64,870.00
62,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
0.8
Average Latency (ms)
1.54
1.6
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.73
29.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
2.66
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second
67,164.00
57,959.00
Queries per second
671,640.00
579,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.03
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.15
0.17
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.58
98.1
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.03
1.08
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
68,728.52
62,073.25
PING_MBULK per Second
69,060.77
63,451.78
SET per Second
64,350.06
64,516.13
GET per Second
58,788.95
65,189.05
INCR per Second
66,137.57
60,350.03
LPUSH per Second
65,487.89
60,168.47
RPUSH per Second
68,259.38
60,496.07
LPOP per Second
66,755.67
60,864.27
RPOP per Second
66,800.27
64,557.78
SADD per Second
66,313.00
59,630.29
HSET per Second
66,533.60
60,350.03
SPOP per Second
69,979.01
60,024.01
ZADD per Second
60,938.45
62,034.74
ZPOPMIN per Second
63,411.54
63,211.12
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
38,372.98
33,967.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
18,378.97
17,322.02
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
12,220.46
10,161.57
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
11,273.96
9,291.09
MSET (10 keys) per Second
50,000.00
52,548.61
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE 0.46 0.51 PING_MBULK 0.46 0.49 SET 0.50 0.49 GET 0.54 0.48 INCR 0.48 0.52 LPUSH 0.49 0.53 RPUSH 0.47 0.53 LPOP 0.48 0.52 RPOP 0.48 0.49 SADD 0.48 0.53 HSET 0.48 0.53 SPOP 0.45 0.52 ZADD 0.53 0.51 ZPOPMIN 0.50 0.50 LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) 0.87 1.01 LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) 1.75 1.94 LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) 2.71 3.20 LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) 2.89 3.48 MSET (10 keys) 0.80 0.75
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium Intel instance outperforms the Premium AMD instance across the board in both raw and complex benchmarks. The Intel instance achieves significantly higher Redis request per second (RPS) rates, like 68,728 RPS for PING_INLINE compared to AMD's 62,073 RPS, and maintains lower latencies overall, such as 0.464 ms average latency for PING_INLINE versus AMD's 0.506 ms. This translates to the Intel instance being preferable for CPU-heavy and memory-intensive workloads where low latency and high throughput are critical.
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