DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB)
Last updated on July 8, 2026
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and ran some benchmarks. 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
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:37:21 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:35:51 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
$7.00
$16.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
70
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category Winner
CPU (events/sec) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Memory (read MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Disk I/O (MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) MySQL (read/write tps) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Redis (GET/sec) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) Value (CPU events per $/mo) DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
DO-Premium-Intel
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
2,494.15
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
4,096.00
BogoMips
3,992.49
4,988.29
Events per Second
1,270.29
562.17
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.66
0.93
Average Latency (ms)
0.79
1.78
Maximum Latency (ms)
16.91
10.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.87
3.13
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,259,692.62
4,915,996.46
Mebibytes per second
4,159.86
4,800.78
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.04
0.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,578,740.48
4,788,946.98
Mebibytes per second
4,471.43
4,676.71
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.32
2.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second
1,043.48
4,376.99
Writes per Second
695.66
2,917.99
Fsyncs per Second
2,238.59
9,337.68
Read Mebibytes per Second
16.30
68.39
Written Mebibytes per Second
10.87
45.59
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.25
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.9
6.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.92
0.21
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,955.91
1,688.69
Average Latency (ms)
1,970.75
1,696.46
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,977.87
1,701.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,973.38
1,708.63
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,004.00
8,936.00
Queries per second
60,040.00
89,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.22
1.01
Average Latency (ms)
1.66
1.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
352.46
2.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.96
1.3
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,993.00
7,876.00
Queries per second
29,930.00
78,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.31
0.79
Average Latency (ms)
3.34
1.27
Maximum Latency (ms)
34.24
9.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.91
1.79
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,677.00
2,982.00
Queries per second
16,770.00
29,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.14
2.04
Average Latency (ms)
5.96
3.35
Maximum Latency (ms)
81.28
65.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
10.84
6.43
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,786.00
15,748.00
Queries per second
67,860.00
157,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.79
0.45
Average Latency (ms)
1.47
0.63
Maximum Latency (ms)
23.78
11.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.57
0.92
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
931,337.00
1,404,967.00
Queries per second
9,313,370.00
14,049,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
1149.14
298.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
137,388.00
202,254.00
Queries per second
1,373,880.00
2,022,540.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.32
4.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.08
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,725.00
4,187.00
Queries per second
47,250.00
41,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.78
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
2.11
2.38
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.8
5.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
3.75
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,047.00
6,928.00
Queries per second
60,470.00
69,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.37
0.51
Average Latency (ms)
1.65
1.44
Maximum Latency (ms)
52.51
3.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.3
2.43
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,905.00
14,135.00
Queries per second
29,050.00
141,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.92
0.47
Average Latency (ms)
3.44
0.71
Maximum Latency (ms)
66.16
12.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
10.09
1.01
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,682.00
14,372.00
Queries per second
36,820.00
143,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.86
0.46
Average Latency (ms)
2.71
0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.7
8.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
7.7
0.97
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
38,236.00
161,486.00
Queries per second
382,360.00
1,614,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.26
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
20.01
6.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.61
0.09
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
56,850.48
66,533.60
PING_MBULK per Second
61,162.08
67,159.17
SET per Second
57,570.52
61,087.36
GET per Second
57,636.89
72,568.94
INCR per Second
59,772.86
69,396.25
LPUSH per Second
57,142.86
46,168.05
RPUSH per Second
56,369.79
50,916.50
LPOP per Second
59,488.40
51,894.13
RPOP per Second
59,488.40
47,348.48
SADD per Second
58,962.27
60,060.06
HSET per Second
44,984.25
68,587.11
SPOP per Second
57,077.62
67,249.50
ZADD per Second
58,548.01
71,377.59
ZPOPMIN per Second
60,240.96
71,684.59
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
30,854.68
37,523.45
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
14,740.57
17,708.52
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
10,568.59
11,918.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
8,655.01
9,573.04
MSET (10 keys) per Second
49,043.65
53,248.14
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE 0.56 0.47 PING_MBULK 0.51 0.47 SET 0.56 0.53 GET 0.55 0.44 INCR 0.53 0.46 LPUSH 0.56 0.70 RPUSH 0.57 0.64 LPOP 0.54 0.65 RPOP 0.54 0.70 SADD 0.54 0.53 HSET 0.79 0.47 SPOP 0.55 0.47 ZADD 0.55 0.45 ZPOPMIN 0.52 0.44 LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) 1.11 0.89 LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) 2.31 1.84 LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) 3.10 2.79 LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) 3.65 3.34 MSET (10 keys) 0.80 0.76
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB) instance outperforms the Premium AMD (1 GB) instance across key benchmarks. With Redis achieving significantly higher requests per second (rps) and lower latency compared to the AMD instance, the Intel variant is notably faster in handling Redis commands such as GET and SET, posting an impressive 72,569 rps for GET against the AMD's 57,637. Additionally, the Intel instance's MySQL bulk insert transactions per second (tps) are more than double that of the AMD instance at 138,919 tps compared to 81,811. For applications demanding high throughput and low latency, especially for database operations, the Intel instance is the clear winner.
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